Thank you for praying for our family regarding our illness. Yesterday we were able to get out and about for the first time and it feels good to be on the recovery side. 

Lord willing, we will go ahead with our New Year's Eve film night. We are going to be showing, "The Printing." May God bless you with a very Happy New Year.

Thank you for praying for our family as we have had covid. There are times where we think we are getting better and then other times where it seems to come back. We'd appreciate your continue prayers for God's healing hand. Please pray especially for God to raise up Katie as she seems to have had it the worst.

Despite our illness, God has encouraged our hearts regularly. The kids and Katie have enjoyed a lot of table games. Settlers of Catan has had many a noisy play at our dining room table. We've also had some friends and neighbours reach out and be a blessing to us as well. Thank you so much for your prayers. 

Please also pray for wisdom for me as I consider God's will for our New Year's Eve film night. I'll need to make a decision on that soon. 

God blessed us with some sunshine on Christmas day. This was a special blessing as the weather has been pretty drab all week long. We are enjoying our family time with Kay Lee being back home. The current illness has just increased the amount of time we get to spend together.  :)

We are doing much better and thank you for your prayers. Church is canceled tomorrow, but we hope to be back for our New Years Eve film night. Your prayers to that end are welcome. 

Praise God for His wonderful gift which is as good today as it was 2,000 years ago.

Isa 9:6  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

This has been a week of illness for my family. Katie became ill over the weekend and is still not doing well. Others of us are struggling a wee bit as well. So, your prayers for healing are appreciated as well as prayers for wisdom. We may have to cancel the carol sing which is not what we want to do. We hope that some visitors are making plans to attend on that night and would dearly like to be there for them.

We are enjoying having Kay Lee home. She has to isolate for 10 days and then will be allowed to get out and about. Thanks for taking the requests above to the Lord.

PS. We've now cancelled our carol sing. Katie was covid positive earlier this week, Mac seemed to have a positive test yesterday (very faint line) and just now my test said that I am covid positive. We're doing ok, but appreciate your prayers for our family.

God gave us a great start to Christmas as Kay Lee arrived safely home this morning. We praise the Lord for God's provision through a family member for her to come home for Christmas. We haven't seen her since she left for camp this past May.

Our service this morning went well. Katie was unable to attend due to illness. So, we adjusted some things, but still had a good morning. I preached on Luke 2, A Christmas Carol Story. We found the Christmas Carols in the Christmas story and enjoyed focusing on the birth of the Lord.

Yesterday, we viewed a potential church property. It is a house with a decent size garden where we could potentially build an auditorium. Please continue to pray for wisdom. This home is in a very good location. We can afford to purchase it, but we would need to wait on the Lord for His provision to build. Prayer appreciated.... 

God gave us a great start to Christmas as Kay Lee arrived safely home this morning. We praise the Lord for God's provision through a family member for her to come home for Christmas. We haven't seen her since she left for camp this past May.

Our service this morning went well. Katie was unable to attend due to illness. So, we adjusted some things, but still had a good morning. I preached on Luke 2, A Christmas Carol Story. We found the Christmas Carols in the Christmas story and enjoyed focusing on the birth of the Lord.

Yesterday, we viewed a potential church property. It is a house with a decent size garden where we could potentially build an auditorium. Please continue to pray for wisdom. This home is in a very good location. We can afford to purchase it, but we would need to wait on the Lord for His provision to build. Prayer appreciated.... 

Thank you for praying for the day of prayer. We delayed it one week to yesterday after high winds and snow were forecast. The weather yesterday was much more agreeable. 

We started this prayer time about 2 and a half years ago, I think. The five men who have most often been present (myself included) were there yesterday. The furthest away drives about 3 hours. It's about a 2 hour trip from here.

We spend 2 hours in prayer before lunch and then another 2 hours in prayer after lunch. I believe God is greatly using this prayer time and trust that we will see tangible fruit from our labours in prayers. Thank you for praying for this time.

We enjoyed having another first time visitor this morning. This lady has been in contact for several months. She lives in the heart of Edinburgh and took bus out to Loanhead and we collected her in our church mini bus. It was a blessing to have her with us.

Our communion service is normally Sunday PM the first Sunday of every month. Because several were not going to be able to make it last Sunday night, we moved it to our Sunday School hour this morning. It was a blessing to start our day with a focus on the sacrifice and suffering of our Lord for our sins.

I preached this morning a "Christmas Message" as it touches the birth of Jesus. I preached on the textual biography of the great prophet, preacher, John the Baptist - Miracle Baby Number 1, from Luke 1. He was an awesome answer to prayer and a gracious gift of God to his parents and to his Jewish audience.

Tonight we are going to have our normal service with a special activity afterwards of setting up our church Christmas Tree. We are looking forward to a fun evening. Thank you for praying for our services. God gave us a blessed morning.

Storm Barra has arrived and it's not very nice outside just now. I was able to get out with flyers yesterday afternoon. I was rained out in the morning. For those of you who remember my F. D. T. (Flyer Distribution Tool) - interestingly, it was ripped through a mail slot yesterday by a D.O.G. That is the reason I use an FDT as it puts the flyer nicely through the mail slot bristles and protects your hand. Thankfully my hand wasn't ripped through the mail slot. The lady was very nice and gave me back my small cheese board (civilian terminology.) The dog ran to the window immediately after obtaining my paddle and growled menacingly at me. I'm just thankful that I was holding the F.D.T. with a quick release grip so that the little guy still had all of his teeth. :) (Just in case anyone thinks that there isn't excitement in putting out Gospel flyers.)

I had one good short conversation with a teenager yesterday. Today Tommy was my partner as we got out before the storm and distributed flyers. God allowed us a to meet an older woman who may want to attend our carol sing service. I'm going to follow up and see if we can collect her for that service.

Thank you for praying for our outreach.

God blessed us with a good day despite the unexpected. The unexpected was that the heat in the conference room was off when we arrived. It has a cement floor and it does not heat up quickly. We moved Sunday School to the cafe and "endured" colder than normal temps in the AM service. It made for an interesting change of pace and we made some memories.

Tonight a pleasant surprise was having two young ladies join us for the evening service. They are sisters who are students. One of them is located near us. We enjoyed fellowshipping with them for a little bit after the service.

I preached this morning on "Being Stout for God" from Habakuk 3:13-18. Our study on the Life of David in Sunday School is also being uploaded weekly to sermon audio. 

God gave us some good follow up appointments with two mothers yesterday. We are praying that their children will want to come to church. Both mothers indicated they would bring them if they want to come.

Thanks for praying for our church. God gave us an encouraging day.

PS. Our day of pray in Blair Atholl has been put back one week to the 14th. Storm Barra is arriving on Tuesday with up to 70mph winds and snow.