We enjoyed a very sweet spirit of fellowship in our church this morning. God blessed us with good attendance and attention to the Word of God. We had two first time visitors this morning. One of those is a French student studying in Edinburgh. God has given us three college students this year and we are enjoying their fellowship.

Many people in our church made some good decisions this past week. I encouraged our church this morning to Continue with the decisions that they have made. We visited many different text where believers are challenged to continue. We also enjoyed singing as a family this morning before the message. I've included the audio on the front of the sermon audio if you'd like to hear it.

Thank you for your part in our ministry. We appreciate your interest and prayers very much.

We ended the Gospel Meetings last night with Evangelist Barry  Webb and his wife, Cheryl. God gave us a great week. The Webbs have incredible God given energy and they are faithful to the ministry which God has called them to do. If your church needs an evangelist, I heartily recommend them to you.

We had 4 adult visitors and two infants on the final night of our meetings. Brother Webb preached a great Gospel message on the brevity of life. Three adults indicated that they put their faith in Jesus. Please pray for these as we follow up on these decisions.

Now, we get back to normal ministry schedule. Thank you for praying with us about these meetings. Each night was a special blessing.

Thank you for your continued prayers for our meetings. We are down to our final night. I uploaded a couple videos to Free Baptist Church, Loanhead, Scotland facebook page. You'll enjoy watching them if you are able to find that page. I'll put a couple chalk art pictures below. We have been blessed through the preaching and teaching, puppet, chalk art and music ministries. God has been very good. Please pray for visitors tomorrow night. Thanks for praying. The message tonight was a great message on how to know how to be saved from John 3.

Thank you for praying for the meetings. We've been blessed in our time with the Webbs. The preaching and teaching has been excellent and God has worked in our hearts every service. Last night Brother Webb preached a message entitled, the Saviour on Souls.

Yesterday we also enjoyed hosting a pastor's fellowship meeting. Several ministers traveled over 3 hours to be in attendance with a couple of them coming down the night before. We're very thankful to have the fellowship times.

Thank you for your prayers for our meetings. God gave us a great start to the week and we are thrilled to have the Webbs with us. Brother Barry and Cheryl did puppets in Sunday School. You'd have to see it to believe it. God has given them some special gifts. Tonight Brother Barry did a chalk drawing. (see below)

The attendance was good in all of our service. Please pray for visitors to come and enjoy what God is doing this week. The preaching was just what we needed. This morning Evangelist Webb preached on the leper that came to Christ for cleansing. Tonight he preached on backsliding from an OT text of backslidden Israel. A young boy came to Christ tonight. Please pray for him to grow in the Lord.

Every night this week we have services at 6:00PM. Tuesday morning we are also hosting a fellowship meeting. Please continue to pray for the power of God in all of these services. Thank you for your prayers.

Don Dillman and I were able to get out this morning. It was a very ordinary day of climbing stairs to put flyers through mailslots. The Webbs will be with us next week and then at Pastor Dillman's ministry the following week. They are currently in Manchester, England. Next Tuesday we are also hosting a fellowship meeting in the morning and have invited missionaries from all over Scotland. Your prayers for all of the Webb's ministry opportunities are much appreciated.

We printed some notices about our Gospel meetings today and I took those to local businesses. Some businesses have public notice boards and they were happy to put them up for us. If they did not, I asked if they would put them in their staff room and they were happy to do so. I also stopped by the military base by my house and gave them some notices. I would love to be able to get on the base to preach/teach a Bible study. I mentioned it to the soldiers and the chaplain is supposed to contact me. God gave me some divine appointments when I was out. Please pray for people to come to the meetings.

God gave us a refreshing morning in His Word. We enjoyed having Blake (student) here this morning. He's here in pursuit of a one year grad degree. Please pray for him as he settles into Scotland. His mom was also with him and it was a joy to meet them both.

We enjoyed focusing on one verse this morning as we, "Learned to Sword Fight" from 2 Timothy 2:15. Please pray that our church would know how to wield the sword of the Word of God.

This is our busy Sunday. We are home for a quick lunch with several of our church family. We are then heading to a 2:00 service at an assisted living facility.

We are one week and counting to our evangelistic meetings with Evangelist Barry Webb. Your prayers are much appreciated as we prepare for what God wants to do in our church. Thank you for praying. 

I had an interesting morning as I went into Edinburgh. I had three opportunities as I caught the bus into Edinburgh. These were all people I have witnessed to before. The first was at the bus stop. The second as I got on the bus and a man who works near our church was sitting in front. I spoke with him on my way to find a place to sit. God's been working in this young man's life and I hope to see him visit our church. 

The third was very interesting. I took my seat just at the top of the stairs and saw a young man boarding. I witnessed to him last week in Edinburgh and we share the same first name. We were 6 miles from where we had talked. I greeted him by name as he got to the top of the stairs.

Another interesting thing about today was the filming of a major film in Edinburgh. I walked by where the filming was taking place and saw all the equipment. I was able to witness to a young man from Glasgow who was part of their work crew. 

The best witnessing opportunity was with Paddy. Please pray that he will visit the church. God has prepared his heart and he gladly took a John and  Romans. He said was we parted, "I can't say when, but I'm going to visit your church." I hope he does. We spoke for about 20 minutes and God's leading was evident. His dad works about 6 blocks from our church location and he knows the property where we meet. Thanks for praying!

Yikes - my wife isn't getting old, but I must be.... Wow - deep breath as our kids are growing up very quickly. We're very thankful to God for His grace to our family.  Kay Lee was born in Port Huron, MI 5 days after Katie and I moved there from NYC. We are having fun reminiscing today.

I put out flyers this morning for a little while. God gave me three brief conversations. The first was with an older man who was hard of hearing. Sadly, he is a scoffer. I wish you could have seen his reaction to my telling him that despite his unbelief Jesus died for him. It was an incredulous haughty laugh. I didn't say it rudely and I'm not sure that he heard me as I said after he laughed, "You will know soon that He did." It's amazing that someone could be so close to eternity and mock the only One who would willingly save them from an eternity in Hell.

The second couple were older Church of Scotland members. They are trusting in their goodness. I preached on Sunday night, "An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor" from Proverbs 11. The religious hypocrite (false teacher) is the best example of this truth as Jesus outlined in Matthew 23. "Ye hypocrites....Making them twofold more the child of hell than yourself" "not entering yourself and keeping them from entering." (My paraphrase.) Please pray for God to awaken this couple's heart to the truth I tried to share with them.

The third man loves John 3:16 but hasn't taken that truth to his heart. He also attends a church of Scotland (parish church) near his home. I encouraged him to read John 3 and see what it says about being born again. 

Thank you for your prayers for our evangelism.