It is wonderful today to have gorgeous weather as we meet together online as a church. We found out on Wednesday that the place we meet for church is no longer open due to the virus. God has given us great grace. Katie has worked hard to bring Kids Club and SS to our church on our church facebook page.

God helped me preach my first message to an online audience only. I preached on Godly Motherhood as this is our Mother's Day in the UK.

The Lord has also given grace to process some big changes in our furlough plans as we will be delayed at least a month in our departure to the States. Please pray for the Andersons and ourselves as we pray through this changing situation and seek God's mind for His plans.

We appreciate your prayers for Scotland and the UK. May God use this virus to awaken people to His truth and that they stop living as if there is no God. God is so very very good. We are seeing His blessings every day.

Pastor Dillman has had hip problems. So, today we went to the mall in Livingston and handed out Gospel flyers to people entering and exiting the mall. People were pretty receptive. I had one divine appointment with a muslim man in his 60's. His name is Asa. I spoke with him for around 20 minutes. It was very good and he was thoughtful. He took a John and Romans. Please pray that his mind would be opened to the truth of the Gospel.

Please pray for Don's leg pain to go away and for his healing. I know he would appreciate your prayers.

Our family has been reflecting on things that don't change....seasons, sunrise, sunset, etc. Obviously the most stedfast is God, His Word, His sovereign rule etc. Praise God for things that stay the same.

I enjoyed doing my normal routine this morning and putting flyers out through mail slots. I had a good small divine appointment with a man in his early 20's or late teens. It wasn't a very long conversation, but I hope that this guy gets saved. He had a great spirit about him. I'd love to disciple some young men who get excited about God's truth.

Kay Lee had some disappointment last night. She's been working very hard on her violin for her grade 5 exam which was to be next Tuesday. She's all ready for it, but they cancelled it last night due to the virus. Praise God - His way is best and she knows that. Please pray for God to help her prepare again in the future. 

It was a sunny Monday morning and God allowed me to get into Edinburgh. We weren't able to door to door last night as it downpoured right at our outreach time. God knows.... we enjoyed some fellowship time.

I had one opportunity to engage someone in conversation this morning. Michael is Orthodox religion. Please pray for God to awaken his heart. He was cordial but standing on the opposing side against the Word of God.

A funny conversation was with an older man who said, "You know our great philosopher, David Hume. You should follow Him." I said, "No, I'll follow Thomas Chalmers, he's in Heaven." He said that the only thing I can enjoy is this life and that I had better make the most of it. I replied that he can't say that. He said, "I just did." I said, "The devil says a lot of lies and I don't believe him either." It was a conversation in good humour. Please pray for God to awaken that old atheists heart.

All of us have had our lives impacted in some way by the coronavirus. Our family is supposed to be leaving on 6 April for the USA. The Andersons are supposed to be arriving here on 1 April. We'll see what God does and how God leads.

God gave us a good morning. You'd enjoy hearing the duet before the message this morning.  "I'm Living by Faith." Benson and Blake sang the duet. I preached this morning a topical message on, "Covid-19, A Faith Response." 

We've started doing evangelism on Sunday afternoons with some of our church family. Lord willing, we'll be able to get out this afternoon - weather permitting. We appreciate your prayers with everything going on. Please pray that the decisions we make would be clearly the leading of the Lord.

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It was a blessing to get with 6 other men yesterday and spend several hours in prayer. I'm thankful that God has opened the door for these gatherings. Our next one is planned for November as our family will be away on furlough (Lord willing ) for 6 months. Please pray about our furlough. The virus is causing a lot of flight changes in different countries. God has a perfect plan and we know as for God - HIS WAY IS PERFECT.

We've got a full schedule today. Our normal Sunday begins with a prayer time from 9:40-9:55. 10 is SS and 11 is our morning service. We get home about 1:00 and need to leave here by about 1:40 to get to the Trust Service which begins around 2:00. We'll get back home hopefully by 3:15. Then at 4:15 we have our (Titus and Timothy) TNT class. We're doing evangelism right now. Lord willing, we'll have the weather we need to get out this afternoon. 5:15 is our youth choir/ men's prayer time. 6:00 is our evening service. 

It's a full schedule and it makes for a great day as God gives us some extra strength for a demanding schedule. We appreciate your prayers in that regard. I continued a message this morning on, "Outspoken for God" from Acts 4. The early church was outspoken in persecution, in preaching, in position, in prayer and in provision. God gave us a good morning. Praise His name and thank you for your prayers!

Tuesday of this week is a day of prayer for the missionary men. Please pray with us for a great day in prayer.

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I'm just back from a beautiful morning of putting out Gospel flyers in Edinburgh. I was in an area about 3 miles from our church location. Please pray for these flyers as they are going into homes where I haven't previously been. 

The only conversation I had this morning didn't really cheer me up. I handed a man a flyer and he said, "What's this?" I said, "I'm the Baptist preacher in Loanhead and it's something I've written about faith in God." His response as he handed it back, "You DO have a problem."

You know, I can't argue with him. The problem I have is that men are sinners in need of Jesus. The sad thing was that he handed back the remedy. Please pray for the Gospel to break through the sin hardened unbelieving hearts of a perverse generation who have rejected God. 

Tonight we are looking forward to a BBQ with some fellow missionaries. The Dillmans are coming over as are the Tim Peterson family from Germany. We'll make the most of this nice weather.

My normal Monday morning is reading at a library near our home. Today I decided to go to an Edinburgh library with the plan of doing some evangelism afterwards. However, when I got there the library was closed. So instead of reading, I handed out flyers for about half the morning and then shot some video for sharing at Camp Chetek this summer. Our family has the privilige of being the camp missionary for Junior Week II and Teen Week II.

Even though it was icy out this morning, I'm thankful for some decent weather. We had another named storm yesterday. That makes 3 out of the last 4 Sundays where we had named storms. The Met Office names a storm here if it meets certain bad criteria... high winds, rain, snow.... I saw that we may have just had our wettest February on record, but that remains to be calculated. So, praise the Lord, for a decent weather week.

Katie has her ladies' meeting tonight at our home. I know she would appreciate your prayers for God's blessing.

God has given us some encouragement lately. Keep praying for God's great grace for Free Baptist Church. We enjoyed sharing our furlough presentation with the church this morning. Everyone really enjoyed it. It's great to look back at what God has done.

Our family did special music this morning that we have prepared for furlough. We're not looking forward to leaving our church... but, we look forward to having the opportunity to minister as a family and share what God is doing here.

I preached this morning on being, "Outspoken For God" from Acts 4. It's the first part of a two part message God put on my heart about boldness. The early church was a bold church. God can help us to be the same. We live in a day where we need to be bold. God help us to speak up for His truth

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