Wow - what a fun week God gave to us with special blessings every day. The best part of the week is that we had first time visitors every day. In total we had 23 children with a dozen of those being first time visitors. This is not our church location and that attendance was remarkable. I anticipate seeing several of these children in church. Please pray that they will come. They loved HBC and did very well taking in the truth of God's Word.

Yesterday, Pastor Steve Anderson and his wife, Martha, arrived. He will be preaching in our AM and PM services tomorrow. It's been fun to catch up with them as they are dear friends. 

Our next big event is our family traveling to Germany for BWM family camp later this month. Please pray for God's great blessing on that week of camp. Dr. Steadman will be preaching.

Thank you for praying for the Auchendinny HBC.

We are praising the Lord for new visitors each day. God gave us 3 first time visitors yesterday and 4 first time visitors today. Some parents have also stayed for some of the program. The weather has been outstanding and everything has gone smoothly each day. Thank you for praying.

Our HBC in Auchendinny has begun and we are off to a great start. The Lord gave us a beautiful day, a smooth program, and a great group of kids. I'll put a couple photo's below. Thank you for praying for God to open hearts this week. We are praying for children who will find "grace in the eyes of the Lord" as Noah did. (Our theme is the Ark and Noah's family.)

God gave us an encouraging morning. One young lady was back who has been absent for about a month. We've been praying for her and were so pleased to have her with us in church this morning. Holly (13) had her friend who is also 13 at church with her this morning. That was also a wonderful blessing. I preached this morning on "Getting Spiritual Help from God" from Colossians 1:9-11. Paul knew that the young church of Colossae had some needs that only God could meet. We need those things for God as well.

We are on our busy Sunday as we are soon leaving for our afternoon service at the Trust. Please pray for God to do a great work in these folks hearts. 

Tomorrow begins our HBC in Auchendinny. One lady called and let us know that she will have her daughter there on 3 of the days. Please pray for many others to come. Thank you for praying for God's blessing on this ministry.

Don and I were able to put out flyers for a couple of hours this morning. The area we were in was very hard. I don't know why. It was a beautiful day but people were not very friendly. Please pray for God's Word to open some of the hearts in that community.

We enjoyed having a bbq and campfire tonight with the Dillmans. The 4th of July is one holiday that is often neglected by us here. It was fun to enjoy some good fellowship and the beautiful evening.

The Sunday night outreach went well. God gave us a fun time and we had a couple divine appointments. A lady texted me this evening and let me know that her daughter would be able to come to 3 of our HBC days next week in Auchendinny. Benson, Kay Lee and Holly helped me put out more flyers in Auchendinny and Loanhead yesterday. Thank you for praying for our outreach.

We are enjoying a good Lord's day. This morning we began in our teen/adult SS class a study of the book of Romans. We are excited about this book study.  I preached a message this morning on Praising God from Psalm 100. We are going to have a prayer and praise service this evening, Lord's Supper, door to door in Auchendinny inviting kids to HBC (9-13 July), and afterwards enjoy a campfire at our home with icecream fellowship. If you want to come, just let us know and we will have a banana split for you. :)

Thank you for praying for our ministry. God gave us a very good morning - Praise His Name!

We have had better than average weather this year in Scotland. This week to come is going to be a very summer like week as we will be in he low 70's. This is hot here as our normal day averages in the low 60's and often we are in the upper 50's. Praise the Lord for refreshing weather!

God blessed our day today. I had the joy of listening to a 13 year old tell me that she had gotten saved. I went through the Gospel with her on Thursday. She said that she wants to be baptized. Please pray that God will guard her as a new young believer. 

I preached this morning on "Prayer that Makes a Difference" from James 5. God has given us a great weapon to wield for Him. I'll ask you what I asked our church this morning, "Are you making a difference in prayer?"

We've seen God answer prayer this past week. I started the message sharing a story of something lost that God helped us find this week. He also kept the weather for all three of our outdoor events this week. He gave grace to make those ministries fun and not burdensome. He helped us accomplish everything else we needed to do despite a heavier workload. Thank you for your part in lifting those burdens in prayer. 

Thank you for praying with us for the weather for the Gala (children's fair) Day in Loanhead. It was a spectacular weather day. God allowed us to have many great conversations and loads of people enjoying our children's activities. We have an archery shooting gallery (suction cup - but extremely good quality), badge (button) making, and this year only - rides in the ark! In the photo below our tent and tables are in the centre and we are wearing blue church shirts. I'll put some other pictures below as well. It's hard to get an idea from the pic of the size of the event. On the right side of the picture is a whole fair with many rides which you can't see.

Many people said that they had gotten our Holiday Bible Club information previously. One lady said she got it in the parade while several children said they got them at school. Pastor Dillman helped me take the flyers to 10 primary (elementary) schools in our area. Please pray for fruit eternally from our ministry today. God gave us a great group of helper from our church and everything could not have gone better. Praise the Lord!

It was a great blessing again to have 4 of us (Kay Lee, Holly, Benson and myself) putting out literature (Gospel flyer and HBC invite) into houses in Loanhead. With four of us it goes very quickly. God gave two great opportunities to share the great news about Jesus death and resurrection. 

The other, far less wonderful news, is that Duchess got third at the dog show in Loanhead last night.... for waggiest tail. Unfortunately that was her only prize category - but we'll take it! This is all part of the Gala week in Loanhead. They have different fun things going on all week ending in the Gala Day on Saturday. Please continue to pray for good weather. We've had a drier than normal spring but we are still praying about the weather. By the way, last week Thursday (day before the parade) we had rain and 50-70 mph gusts of wind. We were very thankful for the weather God gave us for the parade. 

Aren't you glad that God is faithful? In the scope of life and ministry that truth means more than anything. His promises are absolutely true. His ministry to us is completely consistent. Praise God! I'm thankful for that today.

God gave us a good ministry today. We had our faithful group out to church. It was good to have a couple of the teens with us this morning who normally are away on Sunday mornings. The teen girl from our football tournament hasn't missed anything, including the parade. It was great to have here there again. That may change, but we're thankful right now for her faithful attendance.

I preached this morning on the need to be a "Giant Slayer for God" from 1 Samuel 17. What if no one had been sent by God to the battle who would stand up for God? May God help us to be that person.

Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there. I'm thankful for my earthly dad and my father-in-law today. God's blessed our family. I'm also thankful for my children and for being able to be a dad. God's good!