Well my life is anything but dull just now. We found out last night that my sister in law is going to have the baby soon.  (Yes we are all excited.) So, this morning we took Katie up to Dundee to help Kirk and Carrie.  Please pray for Carrie.  This is their first. (You can pray for Kirk as well.) They are in a holding pattern right now waiting to go to the hospital.

The rest of the day was pretty normal except for me getting to play Mr. Mom. That is that it was normal until tonight. The Lord gave a great opportunity to share the Gospel with a good friend from the community. We talked for two hours at our house. After that it was normal until I was changing my youngest and noticed water dripping from the ceiling in the bathroom. Fortunately it was a slow drip and not pouring and the Lord helped me to notice it. The faucet upstairs is leaking.  As I was cleaning that up my second youngest came in clutching his stomach and crying. I will spare you the details but he has since been sick. (I am smiling but would not mind at all if you prayed for God's grace for our family.)

Tonight Mark Hikin and I were supposed to have a prayer meeting. Mark showed up at the door as all of the excitement was going on. Obviously the Lord had other plans for tonight. (I hope that there are no further updates needed. :) (With the exception of the details about the baby of course.) Thanks for praying.

We are nearly moved into our home. There are still some piles of boxes in a couple rooms and some storage needed. But, we are getting there.  I picked up a nice futon today for our office/guest bedroom. The Lord gave me a good opportunity to speak to the German lady who was selling it as I took it apart. She said that Germany is half agnostic and half Catholic. She was agnostic.

We had a good Sunday yesterday. I preached on "Carest Thou Not" from the passage of the calming of the storm. We had good attendance and a good spirit. Last night we enjoyed a singspiration/ praise service. At the end of the time we observed the Lord's Supper. We had a good "family" time.

Tonight is "Guy Fox" night.  He tried to bomb the parliament in London and they remember him (not so nicely) by burning things. It's like July 4 in the States. We are going to fireworks with some Christian friends in the area.

Praise the Lord. We are happy to be connected again. There were three faults that had to be sorted with our phone line.  I feel sorry for the British telecom engineer who had to spend 5 hours with us today.

It's been  a good but tiring week.  It is nice to be at this point in our home move.

The Lord did give me a good opportunity to share the Gospel with a small appliance man who was working on our oven. Please pray that God will continue to work in this man's heart. I spoke to him for an hour and we enjoyed a good conversation.

I'd appreciate your prayers for God's blessing in our services tomorrow. Thanks for praying.

Thanks for praying for our move. It has been a great success thus far. We had a perfect group of helpers as we moved 3 miles to Loanhead. We had movers, cleaners and cookers assisting us. What a blessing.

The house is wonderful. It goes way beyond what we could have imagined God would do for us. Lord willing, we will have pictures soon. I am currently sitting on the floor at our old house. Our phone service is having difficulties at the new address.  Lord willing, that will be sorted soon.

I enjoyed cleaning up the garden (back yard) this morning. I mowed the lawn. I love yard work but have not had a yard for 7 years. We are all really thankful to be cutting, clipping and pruning again.

The weather yesterday was perfect for the move. It rained on Sunday and it has rained today. But, it did not rain yesterday.

Thanks for your prayers. God is good.

We enjoyed having Don and Chris Dillman with us today. The Dillmans have faithfully served the Lord in Scotland for many years. They are dear friends and it was a joy to have them with us today. Pastor Dillman is my moving truck driver tomorrow. He preached on John 15 in SS and Psalm 32 in church. There was a very sweet spirit in the service and we were encouraged in the Lord. Our attendance was good. Please pray for God to continue to build our congregation spiritually and numerically.

We have fallen back an hour as of today. I teased our folks this morning that I am preaching on "Laziness" tonight because of that. I am preaching on "Laziness" but it is the next topic in our topical study and just happened to fall on this Sunday.

Our move is tomorrow. We'd appreciate your prayers. The weather forecast looks pretty good and we have a good group planning to help us. Thanks for praying.

Yes, winter has arrived. We had a brief snow shower this evening that caused quite a bit of excitement in our family.  The kid's and Katie were excited as well.  It wasn't "normal" snow but you could pack it together. I'll put a pic. below.

We had a good service last night. It was our "regular" group that we count on being there.  We praise the Lord for their faithfulness. Counting our family and all the kids, we had 19.

The Lord gave me a couple divine appointments yesterday in Loanhead. It's encouraging to see the Lord's hand at work in our community. I told one man where we are going to be living and he said, "Oh, you are moving into the heart of Loanhead."  We are going to be living on the main street. The packing is coming along. I'll attach a picture of the "mess" we are living in.  The Lord provided another bed today. It is close to where we are getting our truck which will make it easy to collect on Monday. Thanks for your prayers.

The packing is going very well. We have boxes everywhere. Thankfully, we are getting close to being done. We are all getting pretty excited.

Nelson has been my cute assistant as I go to get boxes. He enjoys being daddy's helper. Everyone else has been doing a bit of packing every day. The kids have also been able to do school everyday despite the mess. Katie has been working very diligently to pack up everything. The Lord provided a bunch of kitchen items this week for a very good price.

The Lord also provided a bed for Kay Lee today. We have a used items website here called, "Gumtree."  We got a Laura Ashley, 4 poster with curtains, white, all wood, single bed for Kay Lee. It will look great in her room. She is obviously very excited.  It only cost 20 pounds.  Isn't God good to provide more than what you "need?"  Thanks for praying for our move.

Please pray for the man who sold me the bed. I was able to give him a tract and briefly speak to him about faith in God. He was very kind and shared how they had recently visited a church. He was interested to know that I am a minister.

We were tired last night but God gave us a refreshing day.  (We enjoyed heading to Dundee for a baby shower for Kirk and Carrie. We spent the night Friday night and came back yesterday evening.) 

Adele and the Hikins were with us all day.  Constance, Alec and Margaret joined us for the morning service. This morning I preached on Romans 16:25-27, "Our Stability." And tonight our topic was joy. Praise God as believers we have TRUE joy. 

We begin packing up this week. Don Dillman is going to help me by teaching and preaching next Sunday morning. So, that will help us as we get ready to move this week. Please pray for his ministry.  Thanks for your encouragement and prayers.

Everything is speeding up as we get closer to moving. This has been a wet weather week and a busy week. So, evangelism has been limited. But, the Lord gave us a good service last night.  The Hikins, Christine and her boys, and Alec were with us. We enjoyed a good discussion during our Bible study on Psalm 34.  I really enjoy the mid week service.

We are getting excited about our move to Loanhead on the 29th. We've changed our utilities, forwarded our mail, paid deposits, changed automatic bank payments, reserved a moving vehicle, bought some items for the new house etc.  The Lord is helping in the process and we appreciate your prayers. Please pray for good weather.  3 days this week it rained hard most of the day. Those would not not have been fun moving days. But, we'll take what the Lord gives us. He's given us plenty of volunteers to help us on that day.

There are some exciting "future" ministry opportunities opening up. Evangelist John Van Gelderen has put us down for a week of meetings in late 2013 or early 2014. Please pray as we nail down those dates.  Another evangelist friend is praying about coming late summer next year.  A young man in grad school who believes God has called him to missions in the UK is praying about a trip in May next year. A supporting church is praying about assisting our HBT next year. So, please pray for God's power, provision and guidance for these ministry opportunities.

It is a gorgeous day today with clear skies and no wind. I put out flyers this morning. It was pretty but also very cold in the 30's when I began. By 11 I was getting hot and wishing I didn't have a heavy coat on.

The Lord gave me 3 divine appointments. The first was a witnessing opportunity. The second was with a lady who is a Baptist but has just moved back to Loanhead. She is leaving on a 3 week trip to the US tomorrow. I hope she will visit the church when she returns.  The 3rd opportunity was the "best."  Jim has thought about coming to our church. We chatted for about 15 minutes. He mentioned that he saw our family putting out flyers this summer in his neighborhood. Please pray that he will be encouraged in his heart to come and visit. God is working there. Thanks for praying.