God has helped us with a project this past week as we've had constant sunshine. It's pretty rare in Scotland to get a string of sunny days with very little cloud cover. That sunshine has gerated a bit of heat (50's) allowing us to paint our garage inside. We have a cement floor and block walls. Even with the "heat" it has taken 2-3 days between coats of paint. Meanwhile all of our stuff is in our driveway. :) I'm looking forward to getting everything moved back into the freshly painted garage.

Our lives haven't slowed down much since isolation. Recording and uploading messages plus our Zoom services are keeping us very busy. I had one divine appointment yesterday which was refreshing amidst lock down. Please pray for God to work in that man's heart. 

Here are the links to our services last night.

Study in James

Kid's Class

Thanks for praying.

For the last few weeks, I've enjoyed fellowshipping and praying weekly on Wednesdays with about 10 other missionaries who are in Ireland. (Ireland isn't far away...expecially online.) God gave us another sweet time together today. 

He also blessed our Scottish missionary men with a good prayer time yesterday. That was our first weekly prayer meeting which will continue on Tuesdays until the isolation is over. There were five of us who were able to get together and pray.

A special prayer request would be for a Scottish fellowship meeting hosted by Don Clough (pronunciation rhymes with plow.) Our family will participate with the special music. There will be two preachers and other special music as well. 

The missionary men are all chomping at the bit to get back to ministry without social distancing measures keeping our churches apart. Please pray that God will hasten our return and/or continue to give great grace to our ministries. Thank you for your prayers.

Wow, here we are on our 5th Sunday as a church in isolation. Amazingly a month has passed and they've extended our isolation for 3 weeks. Praise God, He knows how everything is going to work out. 

The message God put on my heart for this Sunday is, "The Greatest Mistake" from Psalm 49. (Link to audio) Like some of the Gospels this Psalm is a warning to those who trust in their possessions instead of in the Lord.

Katie is continuing her children's lessons with the story of Christ following the Resurrection.

On Thursday in our study of James we looked at "The Place of Grace" from James 4:6-10.

I've enjoyed praying with the missionary men in Ireland on Wednesdays. Please pray for God's power upon that prayer time. Also, I've started a Tuesday prayer time for the missionary men in Scotland. Your prayers for that time are appreciated as well.

We are very thankful that our weather has been lovely ever since our lockdown. (mostly) It's a cooler but wonderfully sunny week we have going just now. Praise the Lord!

I enjoyed fellowship and prayer with some fellow missionaries in Ireland today. They are meeting weekly and have invited me to participate. These men are good friends as we annually go to Ireland for a mens' camp. It was a blessing to hear how God is working in their lives during these days.

Katie and I also had a good meeting via Zoom with the fields committee of Baptist World Mission. Thank you for praying. We were to have been with them on Monday in Minnesota. God kept all of us from driving through a snow storm which that area received this past weekend. We were encouraged and enjoyed seeing each of these pastors.

Please continue to pray for God's grace for recording, uploading etc. Katie and I both faced technical difficulties today with our uploads. I'm pretty sure that some extra spiritual gifts have been given out to God's servants since Covid-19 took place. We've sensed God's enablement and covet His grace. Thanks for praying.

If you would like to see our family recording of, "He Said Arise" - Here is a link.

Praise the Lord! He is risen indeed! May God bless you and give you a wonderful day being reminded of the powerful eternal life of Jesus.

The message I recorded for today is from Luke 24, Resurrection Proofs and Truths.

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Katie's children's SS class is also available -  video link. 

You may have noticed that we added facebook to our homepage. Katie makes a lot of nice verse cards that are posted weekly. You'll find those in the scroll box on our homepage.

One of our furlough responsabilities was to meet with BWM. Because of technology we are able to have that meeting tomorrow even though we are here. Please pray that God will give us a wondeful meeting with our mission board. It's always an encouragement to spend time with some of the men on Baptist World Mission board.

Kay Lee helped me yesterday to design a sign for a busy roadway near us. She has a machine that can cut our words. She made the stencils and I did the painting. Please pray that God will attract some online visitors through it.

Facebook is proving a good ministry platform for us during the virus. Please pray that God will work in the hearts of those that follow along. Our new add is generating some interest in our area and we are very pleased with that. Thank you for praying.

Here are the links to our uploads for our Thursday night service.

Katie's Kid's Club video

James Bible Study video

James Bible Study audio

Well.... there isn't as much to share from isolation. God allowed me to help put out a couple hundred community flyers on Monday. Our local governement wanted to make people aware of where to go for help if they didn't have anyone else to assist them. I was going to help them out again today but found out that they had all been posted.

The Lord helped me get my next midweek service recorded today and it will be on our facebook page tomorrow. We're also going to start a Zoom church prayer meeting this evening. It will be fun to see everyone and to pray together. I think we'll also start a Sunday PM Zoom Bible study. We're currently recording Thursday evening and Sunday morning preaching services and two children's classes weekly.

I enjoyed a group online prayer time today with the missionary men in Ireland. They've started a weekly prayer time. God's given me some wonderful friendships with the men over there and it was a blessing to see everyone. Please pray for one younger missionary family who have all had a fever and still need to recover.

We appreciate your prayers for our online ministry. Please pray for visitors to attend our online services and for God's enablement in recording and sharing God's Word.

Praise God we can meet our church family online. That has been a great blessing and we hope an open door into some "visitors homes" within our communities.

Katie's Sunday School lesson is on facebook and ready to go. She's been going through the story leading up to the crucifixion and resurrection. 

My message this morning was from Jeremiah 8-9, "When God Says 'Enough!'" 

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I get to do flyers again tomorrow. But, it's not my church flyer. I'm going to put out a flyer from the community giving emergency numbers to call. There is some concern that everyone in the community have access to the help they need in isolation. 

Thank you for praying for our ministry during these interesting days. God's hand has been evident.

Here is a link to one more video. Logan played this tonight at 8:00 PM as people clapped and played bagpipes to honour our health care workers.

Logan Shore (14), Auchendinny, Scotland, playing Scotland the brave with 1,000's of other pipers in other locations in honour of our NHS and emergency workers. #PipeUpforKeyWorkers #NHStheBrave