Entries by James

MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 05-20-2005

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Hello, all! Bit late with the email this week, but better late than never, eh? Our meetings last weekend in St. Louis and Columbia went well. To start the day off, we were at Victory Independent Baptist Church in St. Louis, MO. John Kuykendall is pastoring a church on Virginia Ave. in the heart of the city. The building is a turn of the century, ex-Vaudville theatre, built by Anheuser-Busch. Now it's a Baptist church. People, that's what church planting is all about. You go in where others might fear to, you claim structures and areas that used to be maybe used for evil, and like a conquering horde, you ride in with the Gospel and do battle with the Enemy on his turf, and prevail. I love St. Louis, and it's very heartening to know that there's guys like John Kuykendall planting churches here and aggressively pursuing revival in the city of St. Louis. Pray for this church, and it's pastor, as they try to reach souls with the Gospel in an area that has traditionally been resistant to such, and therefore needs a Baptist church all the more.

MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 05-12-2005

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Greetings, all! I've got some good news about the van, which you're all no doubt sick of hearing about by now. Anyway, I just found out that someone sent us another $1000 for the van, for a total of $2000 so far. The van we're going to get is a 2000 Pontiac Montana with 82,000 miles. We're buying it from Mission Auto Connection, a dealer in Ohio, that helps missionaries obtain vehicles for deputation and furlough. It has dual air (great for those summer months), front wheel drive (great for those winter months), and the extended wheelbase on this particular model gives us an additional foot-and-a-half of cargo space in the back, great for those longer voyages where more luggage is needed, in addition to the display and assorted paraphernalia required by the on-the-go missionary. We've sent them the $1000 we had to put a deposit down, and they're holding it for thirty days, so pray that the rest we need will come in this month. The total cost will be $7400, so we only have $5400 to go. It's great to see our prayers being answered, and to know that we'll be in a more spacious and comfortable vehicle soon, especially with the really hot weather coming up, and the extensive travelling we'll be doing this summer.

MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 05-02-2005

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We have returned from Minnesota. We were in Heritage Baptist Church (Pastor David Watkins) in Blaine, MN this weekend. It's a bit of a drive, but the kids weathered it very well. It was May 1 on Sunday, but you'd never know it from the weather – we got snow flurries and some sleet. It was a great meeting, and God truly met with us. Pastor Watkins has a great church there, and the people seem to really love the LORD, and each other. They're currently meeting in the gymnasium of a Christian school, and are saving money and looking for property to buy in the Minneapolis area so they can have their own building. Be in prayer for Heritage Baptist Church that God would provide for this need.

Now We Know

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Well now we know. We are only having one child, who is apparently exceedingly active, and he's a boy. So, the 2005 model will be singular, and go by the monkier of Gaelin Joseph Huckabee. Everything looked good in the ultrasound. Boy did he hate that thing! He was prepared to fight over it, and kept kicking at the scope. Big kid, too. If anyone knows a farm that's up for sale, let us know (just kidding). I'll try to get some ultrasound photos up on the website later tonight.

MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 04-26-2005

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Howdy, all! Things went well at Calvary Baptist Church in Campbell, MO. It's a town almost on the Arkansas border, about an hour from Walnut Ridge. Our boys had a great time playing with Pastor Tony Woods' kids, Anthony and Loren. Anthony had this battery powered, toy 4-wheeler, and the guys drove it all over. I'll get pics up soon so you can see for yourself. It was good to fellowship with the Woods'. They're our age, so we had plenty to talk about. They've got this vibrant, Independent Baptist church, surrounded by all these General Baptist churches. The General Baptists think you can lose your salvation. So, it's nice that there's a Biblical church in the area, not only soulwinning, but believing that once the Gospel "takes", it stays with you for eternity. I preached with a lot of liberty in the evening service. It's always good to know that God is using you to call people to Himself, and it was apparent that He was present in the service. It was a great meeting, and we were glad to get to be there.