Happy thanksgiving, everyone! We're thankful we're saved, we're thankful God called us to be missionaries, and we're thankful for your faithful prayers this past year.
Have a great holiday!
"I thank my God upon every remembrance of you," Philippians 1:3
James Huckabee
Missionary to Uganda
Hello, folks! It's been a busy week since last we wrote. Our meeting in Flagstaff, AZ last week in Bible Baptist Church with Pastor George Feaster went very well. Here is a man of God who has simply stayed put. Flagstaff is a very hard mission field to reach. It's full of Mormons and New Age type people, and is a society that has a very high turnover rate due to the very high cost of living. He has toughed it out in this very hard field for 22 years, and has witnessed at least eight other Baptist works begin and falter in this time. Because of the high turnover, he continually has to start from scratch with new folks. The people are hard of heart, and simply don't feel a need for church. As a result, you don't get the big numbers that churches out East seem to think you need in order to be a success. Nonetheless, he and his wife have remained faithful and continued to minister in an area where a Baptist church is so badly needed. Pray for Bible Baptist Church, and for the Feasters. Pray that the LORD will raise up laborers for this very needy field in Arizona to come alongside and help the Feasters, and remain there for the long term.
Greetings, everyone! Just a somewhat quick update to let you know what's happened in the past week. It's hard to believe it's been only that, as so much has happened. To give you perspective, we were in Cedar Rapids, IA Sunday before last, and this past Saturday we were in Tucson, AZ. It took us three days to get down here. We swung through St. Louis on October 30th to vote (If you haven't done so today, GET OUT AND VOTE! We cannot afford to allow those dirty, thieving, Communist, pro-murder, pro-perversion, anti-American Democrats to gain any political power. 
). We drove all day on Tuesday from St. Louis to Amarillo, TX, and on Wednesday from there to Tucson, AZ. The kids handled themselves very well in spite of all the driving.
Hello, all! We've just finished up our conference in Good News Baptist in Cedar Rapids, IA with Pastor Robert Pleiness. It was a great week and the LORD blessed us. The family we're staying with has kids our kids' age, so they've had a great time. On Wednesday, I taught a children's class, and afterwards, got to lead one of the bus kids, Kevin, to saving faith in our LORD Jesus Christ. Glory! What a privilege! Pray for Kevin as he grows and follows Christ. They've gotten him a Bible, and will be following up with him to make sure he's provided for spiritually. All the meetings went well. We ran into Tom and Cathy Talley on Thursday night. They're missionaries to the Canadian Indians in South Indian Lake in Northern Manitoba. Our church has supported them for years, and they're good friends, so it was a thrill to get to meet them on the road like this. They had visited our church last week, and of course we were on the road and couldn't be around to get to see them or view their new DVD presentation, or hear how things are going, so it was great that God provided us this opportunity to do so. On Saturday night, we went to a teen activity, where they had a bonfire and the kids got to have hot dogs roasted over a fire, and s'mores for dessert. We all enjoyed that! It's just been a really great week. We've enjoyed the the fellowship with the Pastor and his wife, and with his Associate, Bro. and Mrs. Louks, and the other missionaries, and with all these dear people. Pray for this church, that God will continue to bless them, and that they'll continue to see folks saved, baptized, and added to the church.
Greetings! We're in Omaha, NE presently, following the missions conference we were in at Midwestern Baptist Church with Pastor Ken Bentley. What a conference! Ron Bragg, the African Director for BIMI was the main speaker, and delivered some tremendous preaching every night and on Sunday. Each night, we were told to stand up, introduce ourselves, and give one need. So, I told them how our van needed new plugs, a tuneup, and a replacement for a bolt that attaches our compressor to the engine block which had gone missing in action. No sooner was the meeting that night over than one of their members approached me and wanted to take care of our van, which he did the very next day. Our van is running smoother now than it has in months. What a blessing! The next night, Dr. Bentley asked us to do the same, so I mentioned how we needed a video projector with which to play the DVD version of our slides that I had made. As we're getting ready to leave, and packing up our display stuff last night, one of the missionaries that was home on furlough gives us their projector, because we "need it more than they do." Unreal. I don't rightly know how to express how overwhelmed and humbled we are by how many blessings God has heaped on our head the past couple days. He has taken care of every need we could have had or thought of having. This church just spent all week loving on us and taking care of us, and we are extremely grateful.