Today my family and the girls took the bus into Edinburgh. We toured the castle the castle and showed them around. We also handed out Gospel flyers. God gave us a sunny day with little wind. So, although it was a bit chilly, it was great day to get out.

The Lord gave some good opportunities to share the Gospel.  Two were very good opportunities.

One young man who does not go to church told me, "My dad is a born again Christian." If you have read these for very long, you know that I get excited when someone shares that. We looked at Psalm 22 and then went through many verses that deal with the Gospel. We talked for 20 + minutes and he thanked me for the conversation. Please pray that God will open his heart. He is from Dundee where my inlaws lives. I told him about the new Baptist church that is starting there.

Another young lady who is from Poland, spoke with me for about 20 minutes. She was focused on the conversation and listened intently as I spoke to her about trusting the Bible and not tradition. She believed that good people go to Heaven. I told her about David, Paul and the thief on the cross who were clearly bad people (like us (Romans 3:23) who were also clearly saved. I also shared the story of the man who hired workers throughout the day and then paid them the same wages at the end of the day. So, it didn't matter how much work they had done they were all fully paid. 

The girls did a great job handing out flyers. It takes courage to hand something to someone realizing that they may reject it.  Thanks for praying for our day.

We are enjoying having my cousin and two of her friends with us. They arrived yesterday morning. The Lord gave us a gorgeous day yesterday. We were able to get the yard all cleaned up. (The girls were catching up on some much needed sleep yesterday morning.) It was refreshing to get outside.

This morning the girls helped Katie with her Sunday School and 2 nursery ministries.  I preached this morning on Psalm 68:1-9.  If you read my prayer letter, you know that the Lord has been working in my heart with this passage. Interestingly, Spurgeon in his commentary on Psalms, The Treasury of David, records that the Covenanters (Scottish believers who signed the national covenant and were martyred.) sang this Psalm as they went into battle.

Tonight we looked at the end of Acts 2 as we are going through that book.

We are excited about this week. Please pray for journey mercies as we get out and about around Scotland. Please also pray for divine appointments.  We have some specific evangelism planned as well as the daily opportunities that God will give. Thanks for your prayers. God gave us a great day!

We are enjoying having my cousin and two of her friends with us. They arrived yesterday morning. The Lord gave us a gorgeous day yesterday. We were able to get the yard all cleaned up. (The girls were catching up on some much needed sleep yesterday morning.) It was refreshing to get outside.

This morning the girls helped Katie with her Sunday School and 2 nursery ministries.  I preached this morning on Psalm 68:1-9.  If you read my prayer letter, you know that the Lord has been working in my heart with this passage. Interestingly, Spurgeon in his commentary on Psalms, The Treasury of David, records that the Covenanters (Scottish believers who signed the national covenant and were martyred.) sang this Psalm as they went into battle.

Tonight we looked at the end of Acts 2 as we are going through that book.

We are excited about this week. Please pray for journey mercies as we get out and about around Scotland. Please also pray for divine appointments.  We have some specific evangelism planned as well as the daily opportunities that God will give. Thanks for your prayers. God gave us a great day!

We have had several beautiful days in the last couple of weeks. It is a blessing to get sunshine and little or no wind. Today is like that. The kids have enjoyed playing in the back garden and we have gotten some "spring cleaning" done as well.

The Lord gave us good attendance last night for our kid's club and prayer meeting.  We enjoyed having 2 visitors with us.

Katie is doing very well. She had blood tests yesterday and they were good. We believe she is over the worst and that she is on the mend.  Thanks for praying for her.

Nelson is all excited this morning because his cousin is coming over.  Although his name is Brodrick, it comes out of Nelson's mouth like, "Bwater." He says his name over and over again until you acknowledge him. After about a minute he says it again!  It will be fun having the Hansen's with us today.

The Lord recently gave a great opportunity to talk to a humanist evolutionist about the Lord.  We walked about a mile and a half while we were talking. Please pray that God will work in their heart.

Katie is doing better but still needs your prayers. God has given us many friends over here that have been an encouragement.

Please be praying for the travel of our 3 college girls who are arriving on Saturday. They will be with us until the following Saturday. God's timing is perfect. It will be a blessing to have them with us. They will be helping with Children's Sunday School, nursery and Thursday Kid's club. We are also going to do some evangelism. Thanks for praying.

We woke up this morning to about an inch of snow on the ground. It is a bit of a shock from last Sunday when we had temperatures around 50 and sunshine. One lady travels 16 miles to church and she made it on time for the service.  Our attendance was down just a bit due to illness.  

I preached this morning on God's Goodness. It was a topical message. We had a good spirit in the service.

Adele took the children's Sunday School class this morning for Katie. It's a blessing to have capable ministry help from within our church. Another family provided a meal for us last night. That was a blessing. Katie is doing much better tonight. Thankfully the nasty cold bug is going away. 

Please pray for a good study week.  We have 3 young ladies who are arriving next Saturday and will be with us for a week. One of the girls is my cousin. We are excited about having them with us. But, I want to have my Bible studies ready to go so that I can focus on ministry opportunities/ church history/ tours with them. 

Please also pray for the kids and Katie as they dig back into home schooling after an unusual couple of weeks. 

God's good. He is meeting our needs. Thanks for praying.

After two days of rest Katie is beginning to get better. But, she is still very weak. It has been a very bad cold. That is not her only physical trial right now. She is also going through a miscarriage. I'll put below what I emailed my sponsor yesterday.

"Needless to say, my day was caring for my family. We cancelled the service tonight. We were able to get Katie in for an ultrasound. The baby is too young to even see a heartbeat if there was one. It is apparent to her and seems likely that this is indeed a miscarriage. God’s good. I was praying this week about God’s gifts. We sometimes don’t like what we unwrap but when we remember Who the giver is we can’t doubt that it is for our good."

It's good to know you're praying.  Thanks for your concern for our family.

It is 4:25 in the morning here and I am up to get our evangelist to the airport. Katie is very ill this morning with extremely soar throat and fever. Would you please pray for her? She said that she has never in her life felt this poorly. Thanks for taking this need to the Lord.

Thank you for praying for visitors. We had visitors in attendance tonight. And, we had a great conclusion to our week. The Lord gave strength to Evangelist Van Gelderen's voice. Our church folks were really encouraged with the meetings. The love offering we were able to give to God's servant was excellent. Our attendance was great.... (when my brain is working better I'll try to tally how many total people attended services this week.) Please continue to pray for Brother John's health. We are leaving for the airport before 5 AM for his flight to Spain for an evangelistic meeting there beginning tomorrow night. Would you please ask the Lord to completely restore his voice?

Thank you for your part in praying for these meetings.  God has done an evident work and this has been a great help to our ministry. You have been a part of it. May the Lord bless you for your labor of love.

The Lord gave us a precious night. We have had two children pray to accept Jesus and as best we can tell they are sincere. One young boy raised his hand and was led to the Lord this evening.

At the conclusion of the service we very simply prayed as the Lord led and had a sweet short prayer meeting. Please pray for God to continue to work.

We have an unspoken request that I would like you to take to the Lord. Please also pray for the Lord to strengthen Evangelist Van Gelderen's voice. It is strong but he is struggling with it a bit. Would you also please ask for God to bring out visitors tomorrow evening?  Faith is not sight. May we put our faith on the line for the Lord. Thanks for taking these needs to the Lord.