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Greetings! We're back in St. Louis, but not for long. Our conference in Jim Townsley's church (Central Baptist in Southington, CT) went great. Jimmy Rose, the Brazil director for BIMI, preached, and the LORD really worked. He preached some outstanding messages and was a real blessing to us. It rained nearly every day we were there, which is a bit unusual for there, but it cleared up before we started growing gills. The good news is, that, like Narragansett Bay Baptist, they will be supporting us starting in January. Pray for Bro. Townsley. His voice was nearly gone while we were there, and he really had to struggle to speak above a whisper. Pray that he will heal.

Our drive home was interesting. Anna collects spoons from the states where she's been. Since we had passed through multiple states where neither of us have been before, it necessitated tracking down spoons for five states. It was a bit of a wild goose chase (some of those states are kind of small), but we finally got 'em, and increased the collection by 5 spoons. We got home on Tuesday night, and have been getting things pulled together here for our trip up to Fort Dodge, IA (Harvest Baptist Church, Pastor Marvin Smith) tomorrow. It's a much shorter drive, and this particular conference will be four days instead of the usual five, wrapping up on Wednesday, with us driving home on Thursday. Pray for us, that we will be a blessing to them. We're all a bit tired, and even though this is the last long trip for while, and we are looking forward to it, our bodies are weary. Pray for the kids, and Gaelin in particular, that they'll handle it well, and will behave themselves with the schedule the conference requires.

After this, we have a series of meetings, but they are all close, which is good. Anna is doing well, but I think Gaelin could stand to remain close to home. Babies need schedules, and it's hard to maintain them real well when you're out and about. Pray for our van. We got in to get the air checked, and found out that there's a leak in our compressor. The cost to fix it will be $1145. It's not mission critical right now (he fixed the temperature control thing, so we can regulate the heat), but it will be when things warm up again. Pray that God will provide the money to purchase a laptop. There are some courses from Silent Word Ministries I'd like to get on DVD to work on while we're on the road, and a laptop would be useful, in addition to the need to keep up with correspondence.

Howdy! We're back. Having the baby went well, and the recovery seems to be going well for Anna. Gaelin is progressively sleeping more and more at night, so it looks as if we're on track to getting him to sleep through the night. Our home church's Missions Conference went well. Dr. Ron Bragg, our director with BIMI, was the main speaker, and we had Paul Strosneider (started Ephraim Church for the Deaf in St. Louis, MO) and Don Brush (new head of Pioneer Baptist Ministries), in addition to us. Anna and the new young'un weathered it well, but we made sure she laid low this week to make sure the both of them would be able to make the trip to Rhode Island tomorrow. The great news is that our church's Faith Promise giving increased dramatically this year, which is a huge answer to prayer.

Tomorrow, we'll be driving to Lamar, PA, and from there to Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island on Wednesday, for a missions conference in Narragansett Bay Baptist Church (Pastor Todd Stricklin). Dr. Ron Bragg will be the main speaker there as well. We're all looking forward to it. The next week, we'll be in Southington, CT for a missions conference in Central Baptist Church (Pastor Jim Townsley). Pray for us as we travel, and travel with a newborn to boot. Pray for the conferences, that we'll be a blessing to them. Pray for Anna. She's doing well, but she did just have a baby, so she tends to be rather tired these days. Pray for her continued health. We'll home for almost a week afterwards, and then we have another conference in Fort Dodge, IA (Harvest Baptist Church, Pastor Marvin Smith).

If anybody's interested, I have new pictures up on the website under Mission Pics. Also, the new BIMI produced video about the work in Soroti (where we'll be) has been released, and I've placed copies up on the website, under General Info. You can watch it streaming in your browser, or you can download a copy in either Quicktime or Windows Media formats. It demonstrates very well the great opportunity for ministry that God has created in Uganda, and the urgency of why we need to get there as missionaries.