Last night our weary travelers (with great spirit) arrived at 10:00. They had been traveling for 30 hours. Thank you for praying for their travels they had some excitement along the way including a flat tire that nearly made them miss the ferry.

God gave us a good morning. We had two adults attend who don't normally attend our Sunday services. It was a great blessing to have them there.

I preached this morning on ministering to children from John 9-10, When I Am a Child At Your Church.

God's good. We're excited about what He is going to do this week with our HBC and with the extra help from this church team that is with us. Thank you for praying.

We just had  lady call about the Bible Club and she is going to bring 4 children on Monday. Please pray for God to do a great work through this Bible Club!

We had an encouraging phone call yesterday from the mother of a 7 year old who is going to attend our HBC. Kay Lee, Katie and Mac put out some flyers yesterday morning and she got one posted through her door. Hopefully several children will come just from receiving a flyer.

This morning, Katie, Kay Lee and I put out some more. (Mac was with us as well but he was just along for the ride. He is a little young to do flyers.) The other 4 boys are involved in a week long football camp. They are having a "ball" - pun intended. They were all really worn out last night. The youngest boys just go for the morning but Benson continues on into the afternoon.

Thank you for praying for us as we get ready for the HBC. Helen and her daughter, Amy, are over this afternoon helping to get the crafts ready to go. The kids and Katie have also made a lot of decorations to put up on Sunday night. I'm sure we'll have some pictures for you in the near future.

There is an unusual opportunity this week as I was able to contribute an article for the local paper. I wrote it in January but it is being printed this week. They are going to include a statement about the Bible Club this coming week. Please pray as this is a great opportunity to share God's Word and invite people to attend our ministries. I'll put a link to the online version of the article once it is published.

I had an errand to run in Edinburgh today and took some time to hand out flyers and witness to people down in Princess St. Gardens. The Lord gave me 3, 10-15 minute opportunities and numbers of people took the flyer. One man who took the flyer began reading it and continued to read it for the next several minutes.

A few weeks ago I gave a retailer a tract and came back the next day. He told me that his partner (the person he lives with of the opposite sex - just to clarify for Americans) and he had an interesting discussion because she saw that in his car. It led into a great discussion between both of them and myself that day.

We never know the results of tracts but that was a good reminder that God is able to make them speak to the hearts of those who receive them. 

Please pray especially for Russel (early 20's). He really appreciated me taking the time to challenge him to think about God and eternity. Thanks for praying for divine appointments for us.

Thank you for praying for the kid's classes. Katie teaches the children's SS and has a class for the young children during the church service. She said that both went very well today. Mac is doing a bit better and we appreciate your prayers for him to be good during class.

I preached this morning on Isaiah 40, Behold Your God. Isaiah is helping the Children of Israel to get their eyes back on God and off of their circumstances.

God's good. We need your prayers and appreciate your interest in our church and ministry.

The mission team from IL arrives one week from today. We're getting excited about our HBC (Holiday Bible Club). Logan and I knocked on doors this morning and gave out HBC invitations. The Lord gave us some great contacts. We'll be doing more inviting this next week and would appreciate your prayers for divine appointments. Thanks for praying!

I am listening to a thunderstorm this morning and that is unusual for here. After a summer of temperatures struggling into the 60's we hit mid 70 yesterday. That was by far our wamest day of the year and the storms today are a result of that heat wave. When you get good weather in Scotland, you take it and enjoy it. So, we got out yesterday as a family and had a good time.

Because of the storms this morning, Don and I are giving our planned outreach a miss. Please pray for our HBC which is coming up in a week and a half. Katie had a great opportunity to invite a family on Monday. We have set a goal for our church (for fun) of seeking to reach 40. We've hit 30 (in total attendance for the week) but never 40. We'd appreciate your prayers with us for God to help us hit that amount.

We have enjoyed a good start to our week as we met for church this morning. Callum (13) often gets to church before anyone and starts setting up. He ended up at our home this morning because the building was locked. So, he prayed with our family here before heading to church. :)

We had a good morning. I enjoyed preaching on Intercessory Prayer this morning from Nehemiah 1. What stands out to me is that with Nehemiah's purpose of prayer he grabbed hold of God by fear, by covenant and in dependence. I've been using these three truths in my prayer life since studying this. Please pray for God to raise up great prayer warriors in our ministry. 

God's good. Thanks for praying for our day today.

I have the opportunity to be a guest contributor on Evangelist John Van Gelderen's Revival Focus Blog. My newest post went live this week and I wanted to give you a link to it. The post is entitled, "God's Porter." It's from a message I preached recently. There are several truths that stay with me from that message. If you have a chance to read it, I hope the post will be a blessing to you.

I started putting HBC flyers through our area today. Please pray for a young man that I met who indicated that he would visit our church. He asked a question that I think a lot of people have, "Can an unbeliever come and visit your church?" I wish I could make the answer to that more well known. We know as a church that we want them to come but it seems apparent that we need to communicate that to them.

Yesterday I filled out 188 pages of citizenship applications for our family. Mac and Nelson already have duel citizenship (USA and UK) but we are pursuing that for the rest of our family at this time. We've just become eligible having been here a year on our permanent residence visa. With permanent residence you can always reside in the UK as long as you are never absent for more than two years at one time. But, if our children (or ourselves) were ever away for more than two years they would lose their permanent residence. I can't imagine growing up in a country and not being able to live there. So, we want this for our kids. But, it also means that we will have put down roots in the country to which God has called us. We'd appreciate your prayers that these applications would go through without difficulty.