The Lord gave us two visitors in our morning service.  Richard is from a nearby nursing home.  And his friend brought him to church.  They had to leave during the message due to Richard's inability to sit for long periods of time.  But, we were glad that they visited. Connie's two nephews were also with us yesterday.  Please pray for Lavmore (14) and Liam (5) that they would get to understand the Gospel in their short time with us.  They will be here for another week and a half.

Yesterday morning I preached a message entitled, "Let There Be Light" from Isaiah 60:1-3.  If you ever want to read a sermon :) I post them on our church webpage - www.freebaptistchurch.org

Last night we had a singspiration and observed the Lord's Supper.  God's good. He gave us a great day.  

Please pray for Joshua and Nadege (nah DEHZ).  It would take a while to tell the whole story. But in short, they are praying about moving to our area from France. God led them to our website and they contacted us this past week. Joshua is from California and his wife is from Paris. Please pray for them as they seek God's will. They have one child and one on the way. They have a sweet testimony of how God has led them this far.

Please also pray for the pastor's fellowship which we are hosting tomorrow.  Dane Vogelpohl and Wayne Searcy will be our speakers.

Thanks for praying. 

Benson and I just got back from doing door to door.  He was happy to go with me after I mentioned that I would buy him an ice cream cone!  We had a good time.

The Lord gave us several small opportunities to chat with people.  One longer opportunity was very good.  I was able to use my Bible and show George verses about salvation by faith. He grew up Catholic but has strong convictions about God's Word.  Please pray that God will water the seed that was sown.  He has seen our church sign out on Sundays.  Please pray he'll have the courage to stop by.

The Lord helped me complete our next flyer. I'm burdened for people to understand that God IS a God of love. Please pray for God to open hearts with this new tool. I'll also be putting an invitation to visit our church with this flyer.  On the back of the invitation is a list of what Baptist's believe. (Baptist distinctives.)

God gave me 3 good witnessing opportunities as we went into Edinburgh this afternoon. A young Chinese boy joined our children as they played in the park. His father Alex asked some great questions about our church and other denominations.  It was a joy to share with him what we believe and why we believe it. After that 2 young French boys started playing with our children.  I was able to speak to their Catholic father about what Baptist's believe. (I also shared why we don't - worship Mary, remain unmarried as ministers, confess sin to men, sprinkle, etc.) Later I spoke to an Atheist from Edinburgh. He said that he didn't believe in Hell.  I asked if he ever cursed someone and used hell.  He said that he did and I told him that is proof that there is a hell. Please pray that God will awaken these hearts.  

We live near a very awesome city.  We had a picnic and listened to a pipe band perform.  We stopped and watched a man paint beautiful pictures with spray paint.  We saw crazy acrobats and a Jamaican steel drum group.  Welcome to Edinburgh the festival city.  Unfortunately much of what goes on around the city at this time is terrible. Keep praying.  God is working.  (Below is a picture of the front and back of my next flyer.)

The Lord gave us a great night tonight.  We had 17 kids and 5 adults.  That makes for craziness for Katie but it's good to have all the kids there.  Two of the kids are from England and will be returning in a couple of weeks.

Tonight we completed a 3 week study on sanctification. We also had a good prayer time.  

Please pray for our Pastor's Fellowship next Tuesday.  We are gearing up for the day and trust the Lord is going to pour out His blessing.

Thankfully the rain held off until just after I finished this morning.  I was putting out flyers through Newtongrange, a village about 3 miles from Loanhead. I had one good opportunity with Allie.  He is 19 and doesn't believe anything. I showed him Psalm 22 where Christ's death is prophesied 1000 years before it happened. He was very kind and we talked for about 10 minutes while he worked on getting tar off of a vehicle. Please pray that God will work in Allie's heart.

Another young man I met of about the same age said that he doesn't believe in God.  But he said that he believed in Satan.  I mentioned that Satan blinds people's hearts to the truth and wants them to go to Hell.  He said Hell didn't bother him.  I said, "If I had a lighter and flicked it on you wouldn't hold your hand over the flame."  It's the first time that I've been wrong in saying that.  He showed me the scar on his hand where he had done that. He said that he had laughed at the person holding the lighter. (We live in a very HARD world that is completely reprobate against God.) I'm convinced that only God can awaken anyone's heart to salvation. He is able.

God did give Dane and I one good opportunity yesterday. A mother-in-law was sitting out front with her daughter-in-law. I witnessed to them for about 15 minutes.  Just when I got to the point of the Gospel a vehicle pulled in and interrupted part of our conversation.  But, the Lord was good to give that chance as the rain came in.  30 minutes later we were running back to the car as the heaven's opened up.

We enjoyed getting to a nearby village for some family fun on Monday.  After a busy week, it was nice to just lay low for a day.  I've put a new photo album on the website from our day.  Summer has finally arrived in the UK and it was a gorgeous day.  God's good to give us refreshment.

I had one witnessing opportunity last night with a woman at a playground. Her daughter is her life and it is understandable.  She is autistic and her mum is very good with her.  Please pray for God's grace for them and that He will show her His love.

This afternoon (Tuesday) the Vogelpohls are coming over.  Lord willing, Dane and I will do some evangelism/flyers.  There are several fast moving heavy showers out and about in our area today.  So, we'll see.  It will be fun to spend some time with them.  Thanks for your prayers.  Here is one pic from yesterday. (I'll put the rest on the other page.)

John Knox was born in a home just a few hundred yards from where we took this picture.

Thanks for praying for our meeting tonight.  The Lord gave us a great day.

We had good attendance this morning.  Connie has 2 nephews staying with her just now and they visited our church today.  It was good to have them with us. I preached this morning on, "The Grace of Giving" from I Corinthians 8. We had 20 this morning.

Tonight brother Layton Kelly preached on the colt Jesus rode during the triumphal entry.  It was a good message on the sinner (He is bound.  He is untamed.  He is at a cross roads, etc.) It was a blessing.  He also shared his testimony which is one of God's awesome grace.

We had many visitors from out of town this evening.  Pastor Dever's brought 12 in his group. And Pastor Edgar brought 5.  We had 20 from our church.  And the Kelly's have 6 in their family.  So, it was fun to have a church full of people.  Jenny was back with us tonight.  It was great to see her.

Please pray for God to continue to use the Kelly's ministry in our church. God's good.  Thanks for praying.  

Tomorrow night is our first missions service.  The Layton Kelly family from Dublin, Ireland will be with us. The Kelly's run a Reformer's Unanimous ministry in their home church.

We've invited a number of people to attend that service and hope to see some of them come.  We also have sister churches bringing some of their folks to the service. 

Please pray that God will use the Kelly's in a special way. We hope to see many unsaved present tomorrow night. Please pray for the light of the glorious gospel to shine brightly and that our church will catch a vision for missions.  Thanks for your prayers.

Thank you for praying for Logan's appointment. We drove to Glasgow today and spoke with a team of plastic surgeons.  After looking at Logan's CT scan and feeling his head, they do not think surgery is needed.  We were praying for very clear direction and we are confident that is what we have received.  Afterwards we enjoyed going to a very cool museum that was just a block away from the hospital.  It was a fun day.

We had great attendance last night at church. The Hikin family were with us.  And Christine brought her two boys and a visitor. Sky came as well. There was a sweet spirit and it was a refreshing evening.  Thanks for your prayers.

Edinburgh is an international festival city.  So, this month it hosts 7 international festivals which means that there are "loads" of people in the city.  I saw more people on the Royal Mile this morning (the high street that runs between the castle and the palace) than I have ever seen there before.

I had several divine appointments and I will share a few with you.

Andrew (19) is from Lithuania.  He is catholic. He is moving over here as a first year student in university. We spoke for about 10 minutes.

On the bench next to Him was a muslim man from Turkey.  He's been in the UK for 15 years. The Lord guided in our conversation. I took him to Colossians 1 and John 1 and showed him the deity of Christ.  And I showed him in the Gospels where Philip tells Nathaniel that they had found the prophet (Jesus) whom Moses spoke about. Our conversation lasted a half hour and he read and looked at many texts.  He is still strongly against the deity of Christ but God's Spirit has an arsenal of truth that can impact his heart.

Just a few benches further was Joseph (27) and his wife. They are from Los Angeles. She accepted Jesus 6 months ago but Joseph is a Catholic.  The Lord guided in our conversation as we went through verse after verse about salvation by Faith.

A highlight of the day was a group of about 40 Christian young people singing good choruses and holding up a banner that read, "Jesus Christ can change your life."  They were with a good evangelical group from Ireland.

A sad part of the day was a young girl (16) who was very articulate and intelligent.  She was a complete atheist.  I talked to her for about 15 minutes before her dad and sisters arrived.  It wasn't hard to see why she had such strong convictions against God. "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools...." God is able to work in their hearts and I trust that He will continue to reach out to them in His mercy.

Thanks for praying for our outreach.