The Lord gave us a wonderful start to our week of meetings. The attendance was very strong and there was a sweet spirit in our church this morning. This afternoon we are heading to the Trust for an afternoon service. We appreciate your prayers for the meetings. Evangelist Andy Gleiser preached this morning on Acts 16, "There is Hope, Because There is Jesus." It would be a great message to send a link to your unsaved friends. It will encourage you as a believer as well. We are excited about what God is going to do this week.

We've enjoyed having the Gleisers and Sarah with us for a couple of days. They arrived early Wednesday morning. We enjoyed taking Evangelist Gleiser with us and missionary Don Dillman on our annual trip to the Dunhill Links Golf Championship. Those who are golfers will sufer a bit of "golf envy" when hearing that we spent a lovely day yesterday at Carnoustie. And, the boys got many autorgraphs from the likes of, Padraig Harrington, Rory Mcllroy, Graham McDowwel... :) I'll put some pictures below from the tournament. God blessed us with great weather and a really fun day out with the boys.

Far more importantly we are excited about the meetings with Brother Gleiser which begin tomorrow. We're going to spend some time promoting those meetings today. Please pray for a deep interest in attending in the hearts of those in our community and our church contacts. Thank you for praying for this important week.

We are very excited to have our guests arriving in the morning (Evangelist Andy and Brynn Gleiser and their co-worker, Sarah.) They will be staying at our new home. We've moved enough things over there the last few days to make it feel comfortable for them during their stay. We've been cleaning, moving things and have even begun working on two of the rooms removing wall paper.

The Lord has also given us some good opportunities to promote the meetings. George Clayson (college student) helped yesterday as we knocked on doors and invited people to the meetings. Missionary Don Dillman and I did the same thing for a couple hours this morning. People were generally very friendly and I would hope that some of these we met will attend. Please pray that God would give them the courage and interest to come.

We found out tonight that we have a new pet. A cute little hedgehog was making his way around our front garden when we were leaving. My kids were very excited as they have been wanting to see a hedgehog.

The Lord gave us a good morning and we enjoyed having several guests with us. We had two children come for their first time. They were over visiting their cousins and came to church with them. We also enjoyed having a family visit who are actively serving the Lord in a local Bible college.

I preached this morning on the passage on worry from the Sermon on the Mount; Matthew 6:24-34, "I Don't Care, Because God Does" I was preaching something which the Lord has really challenged me with during this past 2 weeks. God's good. Thank you for your prayers.

We just got back from our first few hours in our new home and thank God for His incredible grace. We are in awe of his goodness to us. The home could not be more aptly suited to our family and ministry needs. I'm sure you are going to get to see a picture or two as we make this home our own. Thank you so much for praying for all the paperwork to get done on time. It barely did - but it did - again we praise the Lord!

I enjoyed doing flyers in our community this morning. Most of Loanhead has now received the new flyers. I should be able to finish in two more outings. God gave me a good divine appointment after a cheeky comment from a worker, "Are there a lot of Autstralians in Loanhead?" It opened the door for a great conversation with his co-workers. I told them that I was actually British as of last year. One of them asked me why I came to Scotland and I was able to share two recent conversion stories of people I know. I told them that this was the reson why I had come to Scotland. I could tell that God was speaking to their hearts through our conversation. They both took a flyer with thanks as they received it. Please pray that our short conversation will put them on the path to finding Jesus. 

Lord willing, we should have the keys to our home on Friday. Everything has to this point gone incredibly well - thank you for praying. Having two homes this next month will be a blessing for housing our extra guests. Our guests have also indicated that they are willing helpers to paint and prepare the new home. :)

God gave Don Dillman and I a good time of fellowship this morning as we put out flyers over in New Bridge. Please pray for God to help them get some new contacts for their ministry. Please also pray for Don's father this week as he has a surgery. I know he'd appreicate your prayers.

We have a fun schedule ahead of us and we've already been blessed with special speakers. But, coming next, is George Clayson this Sunday PM. George is a young man from England who has a big heart for the Lord. We wish he was up here with us all the time but he is already busy in ministry.

Then, the 8-13 of October we have Evangelistic Meetings with Andy Gleiser. His wife, Brynn, and co-worker, Sarah, will be with us. I sent a flyer out to print today. It will be the size and feel of a baseball card. Please pray with us for God's Spirit to do a deep work in everyone's heart.

Our church is blessed today to have Pastor Don Dillman preaching in all of our services. He taught on personal devotion to God in SS and abiding in Christ in the morning service. Tonight he is going to preach on a minor prophet. The attendance was good and the spirit in the service was great. God very evidently blessed the preaching of His word. We had a young college student from Finland visiting with us this morning. 

I'll upload Don's message on Abiding in Christ. It will be a blessing to you if you have an opportunity to listen to it.

The Lord gave us a wonderful time with the Walker family. They did three songs and then ministered by teaching the children and Pastor Walker preached to the teens and adults. It was a blessing to have a lady come out to her third service this year. Her children regularly attend. It was also good to have a British college student, George, back with us. He is such a blessing. He preached to the teens tonight at our youth activity. Thank you for your prayers for our ministry.