The young lady in our community who had covid-19 is doing well. We met her yesterday and let her know of our prayers. Thank you for praying for her. A mother of a woman in our church has tested positive for coronavirus. Another family member (this woman's son) has symptoms. Please pray for their recovery.

The Scotland prayer time was a blessing today. It's good to get together with other men for fellowship and prayer. We get to do that on a larger scale today as some missionaries with our mission agency get together on zoom. We'll have the UK, Ireland and Africa meeting this afternoon with our BWM field director, Steve Anderson. We're looking forward to seeing some whom we've not seen for many years.

The 6th episode for The Journey is being uploaded. The tile is, "Tune In." It's on facebook today and will soon be uploaded to our sermon audio page. (Free Baptist Loanhead) Your prayers for this online evangelistic endeavour is much appreciated. God is helping. Please pray that facebook won't block our advertisments. We're still having some issues with that. These videos are not being blocked on our page. However, as we seek advertise with them some are being declined.

Well, we've enjoyed some incredible weather lately and we needed some rain which God has sent. We're seeing some light snow showers, but the temperature is well above freezing.

I was able to see our college student Blake off at the airport this morning. I helped him get his luggage to the airport. Thank you for praying for his travels as he heads back to the USA.

God allowed one of our facebook adds to get back up and running this morning. We think for some reason facebook is block any links on our adds to our church website. So, we've taken the website off of our adds. They should still be able to link to our facebook page where they could find out about our church.

I did one more evangelistic segment this morning - The Journey - Immediate Salvation. (This is a facebook link.) It is currently uploading to sermon audio. Please see the link in the previous post to access it on sermon audio.

Here is a link to Katie's lesson on Jesus meeting his disciples at the Sea of Galilee after His resurrection.

The message I preached for our Sunday morning service is from John 15, "Turn Not Away." It is Jesus preparing His disciples for coming persecution and giving them truth to remember when He was gone.

The Lord has given a couple wonderful divine appointments this week. Tonight was really an encouragement to me. I spoke with a married couple for about 30-40 minutes sharing the gospel. Please pray that God's Word will do a wonderful work in their lives. I believe they really do want God to do that work and I anticipate hearing from them. They wrote down my mobile number and share their own with me. Praise God - for lockdown evangelistic opportunities.

Also, facebook withdrew all of our adds. We had two segments of, "The Journey" running as adds. However, we tried posting another video add and it was automatically rejected. I've asked for them to be reviewed. Please pray for wisdom and for God to help promote our page to people in our area.

My two oldest helped me with another music project. We did a sextet (three instruments and 3 voices) of I Must Tell Jesus. I'll include a facebook link here if you'd like to see it.

Also, some of you may not have access or desire to access facebook, which we totally understand. "The Journey" evangelistic videos are also being uploaded to sermon audio if you want to share them with someone you are seeking to reach. Here is a link to all segments, (currently four) which are on SermonAudio. They are short, 6-8 minutes.

God has blessed us with a great week of weather and a good week of ministry. We've done some extra ministry things this week and God has helped us get them done.

One of those is the 4th episode of our short evangelistic videos which we are calling, "The Journey." I entitled this segment, Justice and Mercy. Thank you for praying for our online ministry. Katie also uploaded her Thursday kid's class.

Our last remaining international college student, Blake, is heading back home this weekend. Please pray for his travels. He has been a huge blessing to us and will be missed.

I appreciate very much your prayers for God's enablement as I seek to prepare several evangelistic videos each week. God is helping and I thank Him. I just prepared the third episode for The Journey - The Great Prevention. It is on sermon audio. I'm linking you to the facebook page as that will promote the video on that platform. We're trying to get going on twitter as well. Our twitter account is FBCLOANHEAD. If you are on twitter please help us get that going by sharing our tweets.

We're very thankful for your prayers. We're seeing very positive things online and hope that God will help us reach people for the Lord.

God has given opportunities to point people to our church facebook several times this past weekend. We've also heard from several in our local area who have seen our painted sign. Please pray for God to glorify His name and connect us with many through these online platforms.

The Lord helped me do a second segment for The Journey. I titled it, "Essential Items." I appreciate your prayers for God's leading as I seek to put these together.

God has given us some encouragement lately. He gave me a divine appointment right after I finished posting my last update. Please pray that God will open the heart of a friend who took time to speak about God.

Please also join us in praying for a 15 year old girl in our neighbourhood that has Covid-19. I'm praying for her healing and for God to protect our neighbourhood.

Here are some links to our online ministry. 

Katie's SS lesson on Thomas.

My Sunday Morning message is, "Increasing Christ" from John 3:22-36. It's a story from a day in the life of John the Baptist.

I also did a fun video this week of a solo brass quartet. It opened the door last night to share our page with someone in our community.

We continue to see new "likes" on our facebook within our local area. Please pray that God will connect people in our area with the Gospel through our church ministry. Thanks for your vital part of our ministry in Scotland. Scotland needs your prayers!

I have been praying for divine appointments this week, but haven't yet had an opportunity to share the Gospel. The Lord used that burden to help me start a series of short evangelistic videos I've entitled, The Journey. I prepared our first video today, "COVID Hope." We've put this video on as our Facebook advertisement. 

I'm enjoying praying with different missionary men each week and we are seeing God take us into new uncharted waters with technology. Thank you for your prayers for technological giftedness. Please pray for the power of God upon this project and that there will be much fruit. "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit. So shall ye be my disciples." 

God has encouraged us in this new work. Thank you for your prayers.

It has been a week of good online fellowship. Our family was able to be with my youth pastor's church this past Sunday. On Sunday night we had a good turnout for our Zoom Bible Study and last night we had good attendance at our Zoom prayer meeting.

On Tuesday I enjoyed prayer time with several Scottish missionaries. On Tuesday afternoon Don Clough (up in Fochabers, Scotland) hosted a fellowship meeting online. Our family participated by singing twice. Danny Olmstead and Jody Hodnett preached and about ten families were represented. On Wednesday I also enjoyed the prayer time with the men in Ireland. 

It's a blessing in these days of isolation not to be isolated. Thank you for praying for our ministry online.

Katie is doing a missionary story - George Mueller - with her lesson. The facebook feed is on our homepage. She'll be uploading a lesson today.

Our Bible study in James was on James 5:1-6, Certain Misery. James has in those verses a severe warning for those who loved money instead of loving God.

In my Sunday morning service videos I'm counting the Sundays in isolation and we have hit number 6. I'd say time flies when you're having fun.... but.....  However, God is giving us grace to have fun in our lock down. Our hearts go out to those who are really suffering during these days.

Here are the video links to our services today.

I preached a message on 1 Timothy 4:12-16, HOPE for Good Examples. Hope is an acrostic (Hold up good examples, Observe good examples, Practice good examples, Examine your example.) Please pray for God to work in each heart that listens in. 

Katie is continuing her lessons on the story of Christ.  Please pray that children will tune in and that their little hearts will be tender to Jesus. 

In all of our ministry, please pray for fruit that will remain. We expecially desire to have people contact us from our community. It's hard to know who is being impacted, but we do know that people are tuning in. Your prayers for God's blessing upon His work in Loanhead are much appreciated.