I had not planned on doing evangelism today. However, when my phone weather alert went off for tomorrow and Wednesday, I decided I had better get out this afternoon. (Tomorrow through Wednesday will be a storm with 50-60 plus MPH winds.) So, this was the day the Lord had made for outreach and I finished another static caravan park. (Mobile home park.)

God gave me three good divine appointments and some other brief chats. The first was with a lady who after saying that she did not go to church said, "But, I went yesterday (online)." A friend had invited her. Please pray as I was able to go through the Gospel with her and did invite her to email me for zoom links to our services.

The second good conversation was with a man sitting in his doorway. He used to attend Church of Scotland. But he does not know for sure that he'll go to Heaven and didn't want to talk about it. I shared the Gospel briefly with him and told him about Mac's decision to get saved this past week.

The third was with a woman who is from England. She thinks Jesus died in vain. I said, "But, I am going to heaven and do you think it wasn't worth it for Jesus to save me?" I told her that it is vain for him to have died for people who will go to Hell. She doesn't like life because of how wicked it is. I told her that someone who enters into eternity without Jesus will spend eternity with Satan. I hope she'll think on our conversation and that she'll be born again.

I probably put out 200 flyers or so. Please pray for God to water the seed that was sown in our community.

It's amazing that Zoom church can become normal. We're thankful for the grace God has given to continue ministry online, but we long to be out of lockdown. We are part of the United Kingdom, but they allow each of the 4 nations to set their own lockdown rules. In England churches have been able to meet during this lockdown. In Scotland they have not been allowed to meet. Even in England, one church meeting in a car park was fined 10,000 pounds because they were not gathering at a place of worship. 

God gave us a good day. All the services were well attended by those who are able to join online. I preached a message tonight from one question found in Nehemiah 6, "Should such a man as I _________________?" It's a great question to ask ourselves when Satan suggests a course of action to us.

Tomorrow and Tuesday evening a sister ministry in England is hosting a service for minister's families. Please pray for God to do a great work in our hearts and in our fellowship time. Our family is going to minister in music tomorrow night. If you'd like to hear what we are going to sing, it's at the beginning of our service from tonight. (Here Is Love)

One other thing - after our study in Hebrews on Thursday night, Mac (6) went up to his bed and prayed to be saved. I had shared my testimony at the end of the service and shared what to pray to get saved. I spoke with him afterwards and prayed with him again. We have been praying for his salvation and thank the Lord that all of our children have professed faith in Christ.

I can't wait until I can get into Edinburgh on a nice sunny day and have great evangelistic opportunities. However, for a pretty cold day, God gave me several divine appointments.

One man I met works at the static caravan site. (Mobile homes) I've witnessed to some of the other employees over the years ad he said, "Oh, ______ told me about you." He didn't say it in a bad way - so I took it in a good way. I first witnessed to the other man 9 years ago or so. This man is an atheist, but said, "Don't get me wrong. I still pray at times." It turns out his sister in law, Paula (32) has just been put into an induced coma. She gave birth two days ago and got a bad infection. Will you please pray for her healing? I hope to hear an update from him. I asked to pray for her and we took off our hats and asked God's healing for her.

The second man was an older gentleman who attends the Church of Scotland but doesn't know if he is going to Heaven. I went through a summary of the Gospel with Him. Hopefully his sister (used to be a teacher) can use the QR code and they can watch some of The Journey.

The third opportunity was with Jimmy. I've witnessed to him several times over the years. He reminds me of my grandpa Shore. Jimmy does not have any family and is probably in his mid 80's. I gave him a John and Romans. Please pray for his salvation.

I spoke also very briefly with a man who said he was agnostic.

God's good to give these opportunities and I praise Him for opening these doors in answer to prayer. Thank you for praying for divine appointments.

The Lord helped me finish up the village of Roslin as I got out doing flyers today and yesterday. Both days were excellent weather. It's a blessing to put out flyers when the weather is more agreeable. I didn't have any divine appointments, but I'm thankful that the Gospel has gone into a lot of homes. Please pray for people to take advantage of the opportunity God has extended to them of finding His Son.

God blessed our men's prayer time today. It's a blessing to seek the Lord together.  The men want to continue these prayer times until the government eases the lockdown. There is nothing definite on the table yet although the covid numbers are quickly falling. Thanks for praying for God's blessing on these prayer times.

The weather today is finally conducive to outreach. We got about 15 inches of snow last week. That is a lot for Scotland. In ten years we have only seen snow events on that scale three times. I'm looking forward to geting out and am hopeful of some divine appointments this week.

God did give me another divine appointment last week at the sledging hill. I had a good chat with a man who lives about a mile from our normal (pre-pandemic) church location. Please pray that he will get on The Journey.

We enjoyed a good day yesterday. One of our visitors from Holiday Bible Club joined our Sunday School last night. Please pray that God will do a great work in her life. He grannie and aunt's family attend our church.

I enjoyed preaching a Valentine's Message from 1 Corinthians 13 - Love, Love and Love. God has a high standard for love which He expects us to meet with His help. Please pray that our ministry would be filled with the love of God.

Thank you for your prayers. I often pray for those who pray for us. We know that we owe you much for accessing God's grace for our family and ministry.

God just really encouraged my heart by giving me an opportunity to speak with a college age young man for about an hour. We got almost a foot of snow in the last 24 hours and went with the kids over sledging (sledding). We have an awesome hill at the golf course by our home. Three college students were also there and one of them kindly entered into a very fun conversation about God. Please pray for these young people to come to faith in God and His Word. I prayed with them at the end of our chat and asked God to open their eyes to who He is.

God gave us a great start to our holiday Bible club. A girl who used to attend our church, but who now lives in Portugal, joined us. We also had a first time visitor. Your prayers are appreciated as this event runs for two more days.

God also blessed us with a good missionary men's prayer time today. God has really knit our hearts together through these prayer times. Please pray that God will wonderfully use these time to forward His work in Scotland.

(One of the puppets on Zoom today.)

Katie has been working hard to get ready for a 3 day Zoom Holiday Bible Club. The kids are excited and looking forward to it. I think our adults are excited as well as some get to participate with puppets. Please pray for the power of God to open the hearts of the children to His truth. 

God gave us a good Sunday. We still don't know when the lockdown will end and churches will be allowed to meet in person. I preached the second part of my message from last Sunday on Soul Happiness from Psalm 32.

We are in a cold snap this week as East winds are blowing from the continent. The cold air is coming down out of Siberia. (It's not cold like the Northern US.) Those winds collect moisture over the North Sea and could bring snowfall. So far, we just have a dusting of snow.

We had a zoom visitor tonight. Bruce and I met about a year and a half ago in Edinburgh. He is a believer and was doing some street evangelism. He phoned me today and asked if we were on zoom and joined us tonight. (It was encouraging to see someone visit the church during the lockdown. We have been praying for visitors.)

On Thursdays we are studying Hebrews. Tonight we looked at Hebrews 8, the deficiencies of the Old Covenant and the excellencies of the New Covenant. There was a good spirit and pretty good attendance. Thank you for praying.

Please pray for us to redeem the time during lockdown. We've done several lockdown projects around the house. Most of those are finished. I've enjoyed doing some extra reading. I've recently read Andrew Murray's biography, "Andrew Murray and His Message." I'm currently reading the diary and journal of David Brainard. Wow, they both had an incredible dedication to the will of God and great thirst for God. They also both hazarded their lives for the cause of Christ.

Outreach has not been exciting except for the weather. Last week I put out literature on 3 days. Last Tuesday I could have worn ice skates. This morning it was snowing. Thankfully, the snow melted this past week and the walks are clear. (It is supposed to snow today and tomorrow, so it will remain to be seen if they stay clear.)

Obviously, winter weather and lockdown are not ideal for one on one opportunities to share the Gospel. However, please pray for God to give us divine appointments.

Katie is excited to be planning a 3 day Zoom Holiday Bible Club for the school break next week. (Although schools are currently closed due to lockdown, parents are expected to be schooling their children at home. Next week there is a scheduled school break.) Please pray God's work in the hearts of the children as they attend on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. Please pray as well for our church family as they get involved in leading crafts and puppet ministry.

I'm very thankful for our church family. We have such a good spirit in our times together. Please pray for God's continued blessing in that regard as it is very refreshing.

Our attendance was good today. Everyone was faithful to the services. We did a first today as we had communion on zoom. We already preach, pray, give, and sing online. The covid communion cups made it possible for us to also have the Lord's table. We're thankful, but can not wait until we can meet together. It was a blessing to see one another as we handed off the communion cups.

My wife is busy preparing a 3 day online HBC (Hoiday Bible Club) for the school break the week of 8 February. She even bought a worm puppet that she is super excited about! :) Please pray that God will bless as we seek to do more during a time where it would be easy to do less.

I enjoyed preaching 2/3's of my message this evening. I am preaching on Psalm 32, The Happiness of Holiness.  Thank you for praying for our ministry.