Entries by James

MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 05-28-2006

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Greetings once again! We're in Johnson City, TN at the moment. We just completed our conference in Answer Baptist Church (Pastor Jason Wiley). It was a real blessing. We had great preaching all week from Bro. John Halsey (International Representative, BIMI). The people took great care of us. The meals were delicious, and we had some great fellowship with everyone. On Thursday, they took the men to a suit store and bought us new suits. Wow! I've never had a church do anything like that for me before. Now I can finally retire this one suit I've had for the past three years and have something decent to wear to meetings and to church. They took Anna out to buy some new outfits. She was in need of some things for summer, so that was a big help.

MISSION: Uganda Blog Udate 05-22-2006

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Greetings, once again! We're in Des Moines, IA at the moment, preparing to make the drive home to St. Louis, MO (easy drive, only six hours). We just completed the 2006 Missions Conference at Southtown Baptist Church (Pastor Jim Chamberlain). Dr. Les Frazier (SE Asia Director for BIMI), was the main speaker, and he did a great job every night. The sermons were spot on, and really ministered to both of us, and appeared to do the same for everybody else. The turnout was good every night. The international dinner on Saturday was fantastic (those things usually are). I told 'em that they were helping us get ready for the mission field in Uganda, because the Ugandans will come up and tell you you're looking fat, and mean it as a compliment, because it's a sign of good health and prosperity to them. Wink

MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 5-12-2006

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Hello, everyone! We're home this week for Mother's Day. We rescheduled our Sunday meeting in Liberty, MO to July, which worked out for me, since I was needing to schedule a couple more for that month anyway. In the meantime, I've used the downtime to complete a significant chore: a complete redesign of the website. The old site was starting to show it's age, and I decided that it was high time for a rewrite. I'm glad it's finally over, tho'. You stare at a computer monitor long enough, you get to feeling like you're going blind. Check it out. The same basic information is there, but it's much faster, and better organized. The biggest change is the addition of a personal weblog (blog), for both Anna and I. This way, I can keep the email updates short and to the point. Then, for the stories and what not that wouldn't be appropriate for an email because of the need for brevity, we can post them to the blog, and those interested parties can check in to read them. I have placed all prior correspondence in the blog, so you can read all the back-story of our deputation so far, if you're so inclined. Smile Additionally, Anna can now post her own stuff in a blog separate from my own, so you can get the wife's perspective on things as well. You can find that along the top navigation bar under 'Journal'. General Info has all the usual stuff relative to the ministry. Gallery has all our pictures in it, which I'll be updating soon. The Encyclopedia has all the info on Uganda, Africa News has RSS feeds with Africa news stories, and Contact Us gives you a convenient form for sending us email messages. You folks are my beta testers, so if you run into any errors, try to take a screenshot, or copy down the error, and tell me what you were doing at the time, and I'll see if I can fix it. Word to the wise: Internet Explorer doesn't quite render the site flawlessly, like Firefox. If you haven't made the switch to the Firefox browser yet, I highly recommend you do so!

MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 05-01-2006

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Greetings! We had a great conference in Corinth Baptist Church in Corinth, ME (Pastor Kirk Mellen). Talk about a small world. Turns out, the Mellens are from St. Louis also. Bro. Mellen was Burt Squires' Associate Pastor at Lifegate Baptist Church in Ellisville, MO. Plus, our Pastor was on his ordination counsel. The trip to Maine went well. The week we were there, the weather cleared up, although it was a bit cold still, by our standards anyway. We visited Bar Harbor on Friday (pronounced Bah Hahbah), and got to see the ocean some more. I had some Maine lobster in one of the few little restaurants that was open. It was tasty but, well, it's basically just a really big crawdad (if you don't know what that is, let me know). Anyway, I've had Maine lobster now, so I can say I did it. Frankly, I'd rather have a mess of crawdads…. Grin

MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 04-23-2006

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Greetings! We just finished up our conference at Lakewood Baptist Church in Chattanooga, TN (Pastor David Bragg). It was a tremendous time, and the LORD really worked in the meetings. We had some great preaching from Paul Marsh (former missionary to Guatemala), and some precious fellowship with this kind and gracious church. They all greatly ministered to us, and were a blessing to our whole family. Some good news: I just got a call from Faith Baptist Church in Bridgeton, MO, and they just voted to take us on for support! The support is coming in fairly steady now, which is a big encouragement. Hopefully, as of the next statement, I'll have even more good news to report. Tomorrow, we will be beginning the drive to Corinth, Maine for the missions conference in Corinth Baptist Church (Pastor Kirk Mellen). Our first leg will be to Allentown, PA, a long drive, so be in prayer. On Tuesday, we are going to swing through Stockbridge, Massachusetts so we can see the Norman Rockwell museum. We'll be staying the night in Portsmouth, NH, and finishing up the drive to Maine on Wednesday. Pray for our travels, and our health (one of the other missionary families had the flu, and we'd like to not get it). Pray for the conference coming up, that God will bless and work, and that we'll be able to minister to the Pastor and the people.