God has given us a lot of visitors lately. Our visitor today is a young mother from Ireland. She was here today visiting her inlaws in Edinburgh. It was a joy to have her with us this morning.

The children were faithful to come to church this morning. We had seven children there who came on their own or with their siblings. Praise the Lord. My wife takes our van around to collect them for church.

I preached this morning on Hell from Revelation 20:10-15, "What It Takes to Go To Hell." Nobody who really understands what Hell is like would want to go there. Before I preached a heavy message on Hell, I enjoyed singing a song about Heaven. It's a good old song. If you'd like to listen in I included it at the beginning of the sermon audio this morning.

Thank you for praying for our ministry.

I am very thankful for the privilige God has given me of putting articles into our local county newspaper. I'm given this opportunity once or twice a year. My most recent article came out today. I'm limited to 350 words and I used all of them. God gave wisdom and the article printed this week was a clear presentation of the Gospel. My title was, "Can I be saved?" The title they printed was, "You must call upon the name of the Lord and be saved" (wow!) Praise the Lord! Please pray that God will use this article to awaken hearts and bring sheep into His fold.

All summer long we told Holly (intern) that our weather was abnormally good. Ever since she left we have had normal Scottish weather. The remnants of a tropical storm went through here last night and it has been a misty morning. We enjoyed good attendance today despite some being away on holidays. Part of that attendance was having guests with us who are on holiday. We did have one Christian lady visit this morning who is looking for a church. So, that was a special blessing.

I preached this  morning a message about the stewardship of God's vineyard from Luke 20:9-19, Entrusted with Eternity. For some reason, unknown to me, the equipment decided to record properly. *Thank you for praying... It may be a temporary praise, but I am thankful to have good audio today.

We also enjoyed having Miss Amanda Baker with us. Amanda is a BWM missioanry in England. She came up on Friday with Courtney Jones and her daughter, Lyndsey. (The Jones family are missionaries in Thailand with BWM.) Lyndsey is getting to go on a senior trip with her mom to some different countries. We were thankful to have been a part of their itenerary.

Please pray for the salvation of a man I spoke with this past week. There are some very neat ways God is working in His life and I anticipate hearing that he has gotten saved. I had the joy of sharing the Gospel with him for an hour this past week. I've known him for a couple years and have spoken with him before. 

Tommy (who attends our church) helped me today as we put out flyers in Loanhead. We have a men's prayer time on Tuesday mornings and Tommy stayed on to help with some outreach. God gave us a really fun and refreshing divine appointment with a believer. This older woman got saved 6 years ago. She gave me a hug right after meeting me as she said, "I'm a Baptist." It was a joy to hear how God brought her to himself. Please pray that God will bless her testimony and help her to reach her area of Loanhead.

God gave me a good voice today and I feel pretty well back to normal. That is a big praise as I thought my voice could be very weak today after a few days of chest congestion. I also had 4 preaching opportunities today. So.... thank you very much for your prayers. God was good to help us with a very busy day after a very busy week.

It was an unusually high attendance day. We had to add a row of chairs in the back during the morning service. I enjoyed preaching on Psalm 66:16-20, "From the Prayer of Man to the Answer of God." It was a message on prayer but also specifically the prayer of salvation. Please pray for those that heard the message that need to be saved.

The young man who visited with him mom gave us some great news this weekend. His mum shared with us yesterday how he came downstairs crying Friday night. He was talking about how he heard how Jesus was whipped for his sin and that he had asked God to be saved. Please pray for this young family. His dad is not yet a believer but his mum was saved about 5 years ago.

Well.... HBC is over for another year. :) It is always a lot of fun, a lot of effort and rewarding. God has helped our church people to really step up and get involved. We ran our own HBC this year and it went really well. We had a total of 34 children plus a few adults present for at least one day of HBC. Most of the kids were there most of the days. We had attendance in the low to mid 20's daily.

Thank you so much for your prayer participation. We had 3 children tell us that they prayed this week to ask Jesus to forgive them of their sins and to save them. I would appreciate your prayers for our ministry on Sunday as it is our busy Sunday with 4 services. I've got a cold and would appreciate your prayers for my voice. One mother who attended this week with her children has said that she plans to visit this Sunday with her son. She is a believer who was saved 5 years ago. Another lady contacted us this week and wants to visit the church. Please pray for us as we meet her, Lord willing, next week.

Another special blessing this week was having family members of church members out to our church for the first time. Please pray that these grandsons will want to keep coming.

God has given us a significant increase in children the last two days. Yesterday was our highest attendance with 25 children. We have now had a total of 29 children attend. One 9 year old girl who has been attending for several months told me that she prayed yesterday and asked God to forgive her for her sin. Please pray for her as we seek to follow up and see if she has genuinely understood the Gospel. The children listened very well today. Thank you for praying!

Holly is currently on a plane bound for home. It was a blessing to have her here doing her internship! Please pray for God's blessing on her life as she follows after Him.

We had fun today with the children God brough out to our first day of HBC in Loanhead. We have started the week with 17 children. 2 of them were first time visitors. There was a good attitude among the kids and the program ran very well. Thank you for praying.

The Lord gave us a good start to a very busy week. We had pretty good attendance this morning although several of our children were missing. We gave a book (A Scottish Christian Heritage) as a thank you gift to Holly as well as a love offering from the church and thanked her for her ministry this summer. She heads back to the USA on Wednesday. Please pray that God will watch over her on her travels.

I preached this morning on, Proverbs 1:20-33, Live Wisely or Die Foolishly. It strikes me as the Gospel in the Old Testament. It certainly answers the question of why it is difficult to see people get saved.

Tonight we have a prayer/praise/Lord's supper service followed by set up for our Holiday Bible Club in Loanhead. Our club runs Monday - Friday from 10:30 - 12:30. We're going to pray specifically that we can reach families. Please pray with us about that.

Thank you for your prayers. Nelson has done very well this week with no further migraines, praise the Lord. I need to get to the Apple store to ask why my phone is not recording through the audio input jack. Lord willing, that prayer request will be answered soon as well. The audio quality was pretty good today despite not recording directly to my phone.

God has given a couple very good divine appointments recently.

In Germany I was out walking pretty early in the morning and God allowed me to speak with Michael. I spoke with him for 25 minutes about God and the Gospel. Please pray for God to awaken his heart. He was very intent on what I was sharing.

Sunday I had the opportunity to speak with the step father of a girl who attends our church. God had prepared his heart a bit as he had just watched a documentary on Noah's ark. Please pray that this man will come to saving faith. We also spoke for over 20 minutes

Yesterday, we took the day to show Holly the Highlands. On our way we stopped at "The Green Welly." I had a divine appointment with a lady from Belarus. She is Buddhist. She is the second devout budhist I have witnessed to in the past week. (God gave me a divine appointment on our return flight with a Buddhist from Thailand.) Please pray for God's great grace to awaken these hearts as well.

This morning, Benson, Kay Lee, Holly and Nelson, helped me put out flyers in Loanhead. God gave a few divine appointments. One was with the grandmother of a lad who attended our HBC in Auchendinny last year. Hopefully, he will come to our Loanhead one next week. Another was with a man to whom I witnessed over 6 years ago. The conversation is still vivid in both of our minds and I remembered his name. Please pray for Peter. Another was with a lady I witnessed to a year ago. Please pray that Helen will visit our church. God's good to help me remember these names and to give further opportunities. Thank you for praying for these witnessing opportunities.