The day started a bit cold and cloudy, but it is a gorgeous sunny day and warmish now. I don't know if we started cloudy this morning spiritually, but I do feel like God gave us a sun shining service. It was refreshing to be with one another this morning gathered around the Word of Truth. Two of our American guests were back today as they conclude their holiday in Scotland. It was a blessing to have them there.

I preaching this morning an incredible message. (said tongue in cheek) I preached on, "He Saved Us, That's Incredible!" We examined some of the many incredible realities of salvation from Titus 3:4-8. I don't know that I've ever as carefully considered what God did when He saved me.

Thank you for praying for our ministry. Please continue to pray for God to build His church in Loanhead.

Our facebook page for the church is now findable on google. If you would like to visit the page, please click here.

Please pray for wisdom as we seek to advertise our ministry. We want to be as physically visible as possible. We don't have a 24/7 location and so our church signs are only out on Thurday nights and Sundays. 

Please also pray that people will read the Gospel literature and visit the church webpage. We also have a sermon audio account which has around 200 sermons on it. Please pray that people will listen in and that visitors will attend. Thanks for praying for our outreach. I'm leaving in a few minutes to put flyers out in the nearby village of Bonnyrigg.

It was very interesting to have a father and son from South Carolina as well as a man and his wife from Oklahoma with us today. Their visits were unrelated but they both were an encouragement to our church. It was great to have them there. A little girl from our S.S. said as we were starting, "Have you counted how many people are here!" Even she noticed that the attendance was good today. Praise the Lord.

I enjoyed finishing our study of Jude with a message to "Stay the Course." At the end of Jude he changes his focus from the false teachers to those who are standing for the Holy faith. 

God gave me a wonderful divine appointment on Thursday and I thought about my recent request for your prayers in that regard. God definitely put an opportunity to witness before me. We also enjoyed knocking on doors in Loanhead on Saturday. Please pray that God will do an awesome work in our community and bring people to humble acceptance of His Son, Jesus Christ. People are generally very friendly but need to desire the Truth of God's Word. Thanks for praying.

This morning it was my turn to head over Don's way to help him put out literature. We try to get out together every Wednesday rotating each week to one another's area. Please pray for one agnostic young man we met while putting out Gospel flyers. We didn't get to speak with him long at all as he was headed to college. I would have loved to have had an open discussion. We didn't have any other divine appointments this morning. Please pray for God to give these. It is often apparent that although someone doesn't believe in God, the Person (in whom they do not believe) has in His great grace given them patience to stop and listen to His Word. Thanks for your prayers!

We had a good final day of our family conference. Unfortunately the mic was not turned on and we were unable to record it. The messages were a blessing and we appreciate Pastor O'Gorman taking the time to minister to our church.

We had an additional blessing this weekend as Pastor Scott Jones, his wife, Robyn, and his sister, Terry, were visiting with us on Sunday. We enjoyed Robyn's ministry in music and Pastor Jones' message in our A.M. service on the church. I preached again on Sunday  night from the book of Jude.

Please pray for Mark Hikin who attends our church with his family. His health has been poor this past year often hindering them from attending. Please pray that his health will not prevent them from being in attendance.

I began putting out flyers this morning in a nearby village of Bonnyrigg. God gave me two divine appointments with construction workers. I spoke with one for about five minutes and another for ten minutes as they waited for their co-workers to arrive.

I also started a Free Baptist Church, Loanhead - Facebook page. Please pray for me as I get this up and running. I don't think it is findable yet but should be within a few days.

After a very busy couple of weeks, we are enjoying getting back into a bit slower paced week. Thank you for your prayers.

We had a good night again last night as Pastor O'Gorman preached on Ephesians 5 and 6 on "Raising a Godly Seed." We've enjoyed having one of our young girls fathers in attendance each evening. Please pray for those who have not yet been in attendance that they will be there this evening. We invited several people yesterday. Thank you for your prayers.

We had a good start to our family conference last night. We appreciate Pastor O'Gorman taking the time out of his busy ministry schedule to come over here and assist us. He preached a good message last night on, "The Enemy We Face" from Ephesians 6. It was good to be reminded of the identity of the home wrecker. We appreciate your prayers for the two remaining nights.

Camp update: Camp was a blessing. Tommy, Bernard, Don Dillman, myself and my 4 oldest boys, Benson, Logan, Parker and Nelson spent three nights in Ireland this past week at a men's camp near Cork. Pastor Ledbetter and his people do a great job in running this camp. The preaching and fellowship were very encouraging. We studied the life of Hezekiah. This was expecially practical for the twenty men from New Hope Residential Centre. Layton Kelly heads up this ministry and is the one missionary our church supports.

It was a blessing to hear Bernard and Tommy share testimonies on Sunday night. We also enjoyed having George Clayson (24 years old) preach on Sunday night. We have some older teens who are unsaved. We spent some extra time in prayer during the invitation for their salvation. Please pray with us for God to awaken their hearts - even this week. God's good. Thanks for your participation in our ministry.

Thank you for praying for men's camp. I'll try to do a more comprehensive update tomorrow. But, God was very good and we had a great time physically and spiritually. Today is our busy Sunday as we have our afternoon service at the Trust. God gave us good attendance and good attention to His Word today. I preached a message this morning that is going to be part of a series teaching against false teachers. So, this was part one of Earnestly Contend for the Faith from the book of Jude.

George Clayson, a young man who attended our ministry while in a nearby Bible college, is working now for Faith Mission. He is going to be preaching this evening. Please pray for God's enablement for Him and that our hearts will be tender to obey God.

Tuesday - Thursday is our Family Conference with David O'Gorman. God has blessed us with the opportunity to have him come. We are praying for revival. Please pray with us that God will do His incredible work in our hearts, in our families and in our church and community. Thanks for your prayers.

Yesterday morning we enjoyed doing door to door through some of Loanhead inviting people to attend our Easter Service and luncheon as well as our family meetings next week. God gave us two really good divine appointments. One with the father of children who have attended our church and one with a teenage young man. Please pray for the Spirit of God to break open the hearts of people within our community. 

God gave us a good Resurrection Sunday morning. We had the parents and gran of one lady who attends our church as well as the parents of a couple of our teens in attendance. It was great to have them there with a good turnout of our regular attendees. I preached (unsuprisingly) on the resurrection from Paul's testimony before King Agrippa in Acts 26:22-28. "Why should it be thought a strange thing with you that God should raise the dead?"

There are some great opportunities for ministry this week and we would appreciate your prayers. The first is tomorrow as Katie hosts her monthly ladies' meeting at our home. The second is Wednesday - Saturday as my four boys, myself and three other men attend a men's camp in Ireland. Please pray for safety in our travels as well as God's power to work in the heart of the men at camp. We're looking forward to being revived by God's Word and good fellowship. Thanks for your prayers.

..., a village near us, is where we put flyers out today. Don and I were out for about two hours and God gave us two opportunities to share the Gospel. The first was with a younger man who appears open but is living life without God. He's busy with work but agreed with me that his soul is more important than his occupation. Please pray that he will seek after God.

The second was with a man who was holding a great illustration in his hand. He had a bottle of T-cut (used for removing scratches/marks from an automobile) and was seeking to repair a rub on his car. We spoke eventually about the stain of sin which can only be removed by the blood of Christ. I'm not sure that he was very interested althought I hope that was just an appearance. He was kind to listen and converse.

Our busy schedule begins next week as the boys and I will travel with some other men to a men's camp in Ireland. The Sunday following George will be back with us to preach in the evening service. The following week we will have a family conference (Tues - Thurs) and Pastor David O'Gorman will be the speaker. We have a visiting pastor with us the following Sunday and he will be speaking in the AM service.

This summer we have the special blessing of having my cousin, Holly, come over to do her missionary internship. She is a missions major at Bob Jones University. We're looking forward to having her here pariticipating in our ministry. Please pray for God's blessing as she get's ready to come. Thanks for praying with us!