Author Archive for: James

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. 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!

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.