The Lord gave me a great divine appointment today. I offered a flyer to an older man who was walking past me. He declined it because he has his church. However, a conversation opened up and we chatted for close to half an hour. In the end he took a John and Romans with 4 flyers. He's retired and has time to study. Please pray that God will use His Word to do an awesome work in his life.

In this same area 4 years ago, I met an older lady who is born again and attends a Baptist Church in Edinburgh. I had forgotten about her until I saw her in front of her house where I met her before. We both remembered that conversation. I spoke with Jane for about 40 minutes. Please pray for Jane. She has the sweet joy of Jesus about her. It was a blessing to see her again.

Katie has been busy getting ready for the HBC tomorrow. Please pray that God will use the missionary story and bless our ministry to the kids. Thanks for praying with us.

The Lord gave us an interesting morning. Two individuals whom we haven't seen for quite some time were back with us. One just stopped in to say hello and let us know that she would be back. That was a blessing. Please pray that she will come.

Two girls that have begun attending after HBC (they didn't come to HBC) were with us this morning. Praise the Lord. 

I preached this morning on "Watershed Words" as we concluded the Sermon on the Mount. I've really enjoyed this study and am thankful that we took the time to go through it. It took us 8 Sunday mornings. Thanks for praying for our services today.

This next week is an October Break from school. So, we are planning a one day HBC. This morning rather than doing door to door, we revisited all of the kids. We found most of them at home. Please pray for a great turnout. 

Tonight we are going to do some other visits. Thanks for praying for Free Baptist Church in Loanhead.

Thank you for praying for Laura's mom. She is doing very well. It's a remarkable difference from Monday night.

While we were at the hospital we also visited a man from our community. Please pray for his health. I've been witnessing to him for a couple of years. 

Tonight is our second lesson on the book of Revelation. We finished our parenting teens class and are stepping out into a new venture. We enjoyed our start last week and trust this will be a good study for our Thursday evening adult/teen Bible study.The children in Katie's class are looking at Missionary John Patton this evening.

This morning I enjoyed praying with Pastor Keith Mills and Satith,a man from his church. I've begun monthly revival prayer times for pastor's in our area who are able to attend. Satith and I went into Edinburgh afterwards to do some evangelism. We had several good opportunities to share the Gospel. The best was with Edward who has recently lost his eyesight. He has had both retinas recently re-attached. Please pray for his spiritual and physical eyesight. The Lord gave us a break in the rain from 11-2 which was just what we needed. We got soaked getting back to the car but not while we were doing evangelism.

Katie's ladies' meeting went very well last night. There were 8 ladies and 3 girls present. They all enjoyed Katie's study on encouragement. 

Late last night Katie and I took Laura (who attends our church) to the hospital. Her mum was taken there by ambulance. Please pray that God will heal her mum and that the Dr.'s will have wisdom to diagnose the problem. 

Thank you for your prayers!

We got to church last night to find a man already there. He was passing our community center on the bus and saw our church sign. He got off and came to church. He stayed for the Children's Choir practice and the evening service. We had a good service last night as we had communion. We read Scripture passages about the Lord's death and sang hymns. God's Word of itself is powerful and God gave us a good service.

This morning I put out flyers for a few hours. Our weather is unsettled this week and it looked to be the best chance to get out. I had one really good witnessing opportunity with Andrew. Please pray that Andrew will want to know more about being born again and read the literature that I left with him. I met several religious but lost people today.

This evening is the ladies' meeting and lot of preparation is going into that. Our house smells like apple bread. Thanks for your prayers for this ministry.

The Lord gave us encouraging attendance today. Three neighbor kids were present. One of them has become very faithful to every service. We had 19 children present today. :) They all did very well.

I preached this morning on "A Spiritual Smorgasbord" from Matthew 7:1-12. We looked at several topics; the judge and judgment, the clean and the unclean, the prayer and the answer, and the investment and return.

Tomorrow we'd appreciate your prayers for the ladies' meeting. It seems like there will be very good attendance. Thanks for your prayers for our ministry.  

Benson and I had a great divine appointment today as we knocked on doors. We spoke with a woman at her door for 57 minutes. (Benson told me that when we got done.) We were going through a lot of Scripture. God was obviously in that. Please pray that God would meet the needs in this woman's life. We anticipate seeing her again.

Yesterday was a great day off for the boys, myself and Don Dillman. We have an annual outing to the Dunhill Links Golf Championship. It is a Pro Am Tournament at Kingsbarnes, The Old Course - St. Andrews, and Carnoustie. We like to go to Kingsbarnes as it is the most scenic.The boys enjoy getting golf balls, autographs etc from the pros. Some of the highlights from this year.... The caddie for Graeme McDowell gave two of the boys McDowell's used golf gloves. As we were leaving Martin Kaymer turned around and handed each of the boys an autographed ball. (They got a lot of balls from other pro's as well.) It was a spectacular day and we had a lot of fun. I'll put a picture below of Padraig Harrington signing stuff for the boys. Other autographs yesterday...Stewart Cink, Ernie Els, Lee Westwood...to name a few. :) (Just for all you golfers out there.)  

We had a great divine appointment yesterday as well with a young man and woman who were working the tournament. Please pray for Carl to have his heart opened to God's truth.

Don and I had another great weather day to get out and do flyers. We are putting flyers through a village a couple miles from our church meeting place. We had two decent opportunities to witness.

Afterward the Dillman's helped me collect my car from the mechanic. And (drum roll) it appears to be fixed. It had some bad injectors for the lpg system. Thanks for praying with us on this.

I walked for several hours this morning putting out flyers. I was doing an area that has more distance between properties. Yesterday we studied the story of the woman at the well. Having that in my mine, was good motivation for "I must needs go through" type of evangelism. So, I walked up some driveways that were hundreds of meter's long. One such driveway led me to a great chat with a woman who is born again. Please pray that God will bless her and her family. Thanks for praying for divine appointments.