I feel like I just turned around and another Sunday is here. This past week went incredibly fast. I put out literature on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday was a study day and ministry night. Thursday, I flew to Ireland and enjoyed fellowship and prayer. Brother Les Hill had two missionaries join us in the morning and three joining us for an afternoon prayer session. We also met up with one of our missionaries, Brother Layton Kelly, who runs New Hope Residential men's home in Ireland. 

There have been many hinderance to our church attendance. Please pray for God's healing hand. One of our young men has glandular fever (mono) and is really ill. Otherwise, there has just been a lot of other bugs going around. We know that everyone struggles with illness (not just churches) but it does seem at times to be spiritual warfare.

One of the greatest thrills today, was having a man back in church who had turned away from the Lord. He came back with a testimony of repentance and desire to follow God. It was great to have him back with us.

I preached on, "When God Appears" from Jacob's conversion in Genesis 28. It was interesting that God's appearance impacted Jacobs - head, heart and will. God is working and there were some open responses in the invitation time. Please pray for God to do a thorough work in the hearts of all of our church family.

This Wednesday we are having a Valentine's Banquet which our children are going to put on for us. People have been signing up and we are trusting God for a great night. Please pray for visitors and for our church family to be encouraged. Thank you for praying for our family and ministry. God is good and we know it is in answer to your prayers.

God gave us a good, but busy week. A guest flew in from Ireland and was with us from Sunday night through Wednesday morning. Monday was street preaching. Tuesday and Wednesday were literature distribution days. All of Loanhead has nearly received the new flyers. This is around 3500 homes. Pastor Dillman helped me on Wednesday.

Friday was our youth activity. We had two teens not make it due to illness. But, we enjoyed a great time with those who made it; playing a game called, "Five Crowns," eating pizza, and having a challenge from God's Word on the feeding of the 5,000. 

God blessed us with two adulte visitors this morning. It was fun to meet them. Our attendance was good despite having many unable to attend due to illness. Please pray for our church to get well soon as it is affecting us significantly just now.

I preached on our theme, "Crucified with Him" unto His Lordship from Romans 6, the latter half of the chapter. I have really enjoyed this study and believe it has greatly benefited our church.

This week is normal, except for a planned flight to Ireland on Thursday for a day of prayer with some other ministers. Would you please pray that God will meet with us in power? My good friend, Les Hill, has invited other friends of ours to be in attendance. There should be 5-6 of us. Thanks for praying!

God's blessed us with a great day. Katie is doing well! Praise the Lord. Thank you again for your prayers for her. A young lady, Rebekah, who is from Germany is with us for a few nights and arrived last night. We were thankful that Katie is well as the plan seemed like it might not work. Rebekah and Katie enjoyed walking around Edinburgh today.

I was also in Edinburgh doing street preaching. This morning was interesting. A man spat at my speaker a few minutes after I started. Then about 15 minutes into preaching a busker (street performer) set up very close to me and put on very loud music. I could not remain in that spot. I've preached through a lot of noise, but this was too much.

God had a great spot open for me very near the statue of David Livingstone. Livingstone is immortalised standing there with his hand raised gripping a Bible. God gave me tremendous liberty despite some pushback at times. 

God also put on my heart to cut some of the preaching from this morning and make a 5 minute evangelism video for a Facebook advertisement. Would you pray that God would use it to bring at least one Scottish person to Jesus Christ? Please also pray that it will stir the hearts of believers to pray for Scotland. 

If you are not on facebook and would like to see it, I've uploaded it to our sermon audio page. We appreciate your prayers. God is leading. God is working.

Praise the Lord, Katie was able to attend church today. Her scan on Friday morning showed three kidney stone. She's been pretty miserable. If church was yesterday, she would have had to stay home. Although she was up in the night with pain, she feels good today and was able to attend church. Is this the conclusion of the story? We hope so. Please pray for her to be fully recovered.

God gave us a good morning. We had good attendance in SS and church. Some, who had been absent for quite some time due to illness, were back out. We also had repeat visitors whish is a blessing.

We continued our Crucified with Him theme this morning as we studied the first half of Romans 6, Crucified with Him to Lust. "That the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin." I have benefited from this study and I believe it has been of benefit to our church family.

The storm did not do any signficant damage. We had a couple of trees go down across our road. Thankfully, I had already brought Katie back home from the hospital. We also had a small fence in our back garden blown over and the lid ripped off a large storage container. That's not too bad for a once in a generation storm. 

Tonight is our annual general meeting. We praise God for His goodness and I look forward to sharing the specifics of our church finances with our congregation. Thank you for your intercession for Katie and as always for our ministry.

Good morning, this is an unusual Friday morning update as there are unusual things happening this week.

I'd appreciate your prayers for Katie as she ended up in hospital with suspected kidney stones. They kept her overnight and have done a scan this morning. We've not yet heard the report back on that.

Meanwhile, we are getting a once in a generation storm today. Scotland gets a lot of bad storms. However, they have issued the highest warning for this one, and wind speeds of 115mph have been recorded in Northern Ireland as the eye of the storm is passing above it. That eye is going to track above us as well. Please pray for God to watch over Scotland and our church families. 

In other exciting news, someone backed into the church boundary brick wall earlier this week with a lorry (semi) and caused significant damage.  For whatever reason, they didn't let us know of the damage. However, all things work together for good. We are going to seek to open that corner up and it should look great. Last night my two youngest boys, Nelsona and Mac, helped me remove all that was broken down to the ground. We'll work on it more after the storm.

Brother Don Dillman and I enjoyed a good outing on Wednesday and were able to get a fair amount of literature out in his area. Thankfully the weather on Wednesday was great. Thanks for taking the needs above to the Lord. We very much appreciate your prayers.

It feels great to be back at it. Evangelism was impacted by the holidays, but mostly it has been the weather. Thankfully, our weather is now much better and evangelism is going strong. We enjoyed doing door to door on Saturday. A teenage girl went with us and it's a blessing having her along. Katie and she knocked doors together.

On Monday, I was able to put out several hundred flyers in Loanhead. We love our village and thank God for each opporunity we have to share Christ with them. Please that God would mercifully work and that many will find the mercy, grace and forgiveness of God.

Today, I was down street preaching in Edinburgh. Thankfully, my video equipment worked and that outing is on sermonaudio.com as well as on Facebook. Please pray that God will work in the hearts of those who heard the preaching or who will hear the preaching online. God gave tremendous liberty and I appreciate your prayers for that ministry.

Lord willing, tomorrow will be evangelism with Brother Dillman in his area. We have done evangelism together for the last 15 years this coming March. I'm either getting old.... or lying. (I guess I'm getting old.) Don and Chris are good friends. Please pray for their work, Almond Valley Baptist Church in Livingston. Thanks as always for your prayers.

PS. With regard to weather, a named storm is arriving on Friday with gusts to 70 or 80 in Scotland. :)

God blessed us with a good Sunday. A young man who had been seriously ill was able to be back out with us. Some other church family were also back which is always a blessing. The attendance was good and we had a mother and teenage son visit our church. They used to attend a good friend of our's church (Brother Craig Ledbetter) in Ireland. They have since moved into Scotland and to our area. It was a joy to meet them.

We're continuing with our church theme of, "Crucified with Him" and today we looked at Galatians 5, "Crucified with Him unto LIberty." "Free from the law Oh happy condition, Jesus has died and there is remission!" Praise the Lord for our liberation by His death and our new victorious walk if we walk after His Spirit.

We didn't leave the church until 1:00PM though this preacher finished well before that. It's a blessing to be ministering to a chruch family that love one another. We had great fellowship after church. Thanks for praying for us.

The weather has been prohibitive for outreach for much of this year. We've had snow, ice, wind and rain. Thankfully, everything melted this past Monday and today the sun was shining. Pastor Dillman and I put out around 4-5 hundred flyers today. Please pray for the power of the Gospel to penetrate hearts. I had some short opportunities to speak with people as well.

Yesterday was a day of prayer with 5 other men up at Blair Atholl. God blessed us with a good prayer time despite an hour delay in arriving because of the closure of a motorway due to a fire.

Tonight we studied the story in the Word of God of Amnon raping his sister, Tamar as we continued our study of the Life of David. We had a good Bible study and God blessed us with good midweek attendance.  Thank you for praying for our evangelism and church ministries. 

God blessed us with a good morning. Our attendance in SS was low, but our AM attendance was strong. We still have some who are ill and unable to be out. Lord willing, we will see them out soon.

God blessed our morning. We miss our song leader, Logan, as he is now away at Bible College. Both of our previous song leaders (Benson as well) departed on Tuesday. On Wednesday night we did some song leading training. Lord willing, I will have some help in the very near future. Marco, who is one of our newest members, came up and read the Scripture reading this morning. That was a blessing.

I preached from Galatians 2 on our old man's position with Christ (crucified) and our new position of alive because Christ is alive in us. Our theme this year is, "Crucified with Him" and this message was, "Crucified with Him unto the Law." It's wonderful to understand that we were put to death with Christ at Calvary and that now we are alive unto God by faith in the Son of God. "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me...."

An adult raised their hand acknowledging their desire for salvation and a great discussion took place after the service. Please pray for a complete work of God's grace in their life.

We are excited about what God is doing in the church. Thank you for praying.

Well, there are physical seasonal changes in 2025 and familial seasonal changes for the Shore family. We have had snow on the ground since 1 January. It is beautiful, but it has been cold. I enjoyed street preaching this morning. My audio equipment worked well, but my video recording equipment did not. I think it was the freezing temperatures. God gave me liberty and a good location. I was preaching near a bus stop and there were many captive hearers. Some others stood and listened at times despite the cold.

On the family front, our two oldest boys (of our 5 boys) headed for Ambassador this morning. Benson (20) and Logan (19) are traveling to NC right now. Benson will be finishing his junior year this semester.  Logan will be a second semester freshman. This will be his first time at Ambassador as his other college credits were from online courses. Although their first flight was an hour late, they just made their connection in London and are currently winging their way to Charlotte.

Katie and the youngest three boys will be starting school back up tomorrow. "To every thing there is a season" and we look forward to this season and each season God brings. Thanks for your prayers!