This has been a fun week and ministry begins tonight as we have a special fun church service. We are going to set up our 10 foot tall Christmas tree this evening and decorate the hall for our carol service on Saturday. Tomorrow at 2:00 in the afternoon we have our carol sing at THE TRUST (assisted living facility). Saturday is our Church Carol Sing Service at 6:00. Sunday, Christmas Day, we are having a 10:30 service.

We have prepared the power point for the carol service, made Christmas cookies (Katie and Kay Lee) and will soon be pre-recording the Chrismas carols onto the piano. 

Thank you for the many Christmas gifts, cards and greetings. We are very thankful for your support of our famiy and ministry!

We are excited to be into this ministry week. The Lord gave us a good morning as I preached on the Christmas Story, Luke 2, on "You Can Trust God When...." 

This week is a good busy ministry week. Thursday night (our midweek service) we are going to set up our ten foot tall Christmas tree, decorate, have a special prayer time for the carol service and let the children's choir get one more practice. Friday is a special carol sing service at The Trust (Assisted living facility.) Saturday at 6 is our Carol Sing Service. Sunday we are doing a 10:30 Christmas Day Service. We are excited about this special season of ministry. Thank you for your prayers.

Don and I did flyers today in a village near where they are going to start a church. Please pray that God would give them some conacts through these flyers. God gave them a contact the first day that they put out flyers. She has met with them a few times. Please pray for them as they seek to get started with their new work.

I had a divine appointment after returning. I met a man from Northern Ireland who lives a couple hours from here on the other side of Scotland. Northern Ireland probably has more real believers than anywhere else in the UK. He said that his mom and dad would say that they are born again. He is not. Please pray that God will awaken Andy's heart and bring him to faith in Him. He thanked me for the conversation. I anticipate hearing from him if he ever does take Jesus as His Saviour. He said that he often comes to this side of the country because of his work. 

Thank you for praying for divine appointments!

It was good to have a young woman from the States visit our church this morning. She is from Florida and had heard of our ministry somehow. We're enjoying her company today.

This is our busy Sunday. This afternoon is the Trust Service. I'm going to preach the same message I preached in our church this morning, "How to Find the King" from Matthew 2. This is the passage that shares the journey of the wisemen from the East to Jerusalem and then to Bethlehem. We had a good service.

After 6 years we thought it was time to replace our church signs. It is amazing that our roll up banner stand signs had lasted that long.

We are very pleased with the new signs which we got this week. I'll put some pictures below.

The ladies' Christmas tea went very well last night. It was a busy day as Logan had his 11th birthday yesterday as well. It's fun seeing the kids grow up. I feel like I'm shrinking.

Katie always works very hard to give the ladies' a wonderful Christmas party. There was very good attendance last night. It was a particular blessing to have a couple neighbors present. I'll put a picture below of the wonderful treats Katie made for the evening. Thank you for praying for that ministry opportunity.

This is a busy ministry week. Sunday we also have our Trust Service (assisted living facility). I almost decided to study rather than put out flyers this morning. But, I'm glad that I was able to get out. I had a very good divine appointment with a young couple. I gave the young lady a John and Romans. Please pray that she reads it and that God opens her eyes.

Thank you for your prayers for our ministry. They are much appreciated.

PS. The second picture is one order of onion rings from the chip shop next door. If you can't tell how big they are - 4-5 inches accross. The picture illustrates what happens when your neighbor is the chippy and they love your family. :)

Thursday night we had a very encouraging service. We had another little girl visit our church and a young family of four visited as well. We've been praying for God to fill up our chairs and we were excited to make some progress. The family are young believers that we know from our community. They attend another church but decided to visit with us this past Sunday night. Please pray for God to direct their family as He see's fit. There are reasons why we beileve it would be better for them to attend our ministry.

We had good services today. I preached this morning on a portion of Solomon's temple dedication prayer. My message was, "Getting Strangers in Touch with God" from 1 Kings 8:41-43, 60. It's an interesting evangelistic passage from the Old Testament. Tomorrow night is Katie's ladies' Christmas party at our home. Please pray for God's special blessing on that evening. Thank you for your prayers.

Don and I got out in his new area of Newbridge. He and his wife are starting a Bible study to help start a church there. We had some good divine appointments as we put out flyers and knocked on doors. One man who is anti-religion was attentive as I shared with him some information about God's judgment on false religion in Revelation 14. (I was prepared for that conversation because I am preaching through Rev on Thursday nights and we are in Chapter 14 this Thursday.) I hope he will pick up a Bible and read Revelation himself.

Brandon was another opportunity. He is a young man in his 20's who professed to be an atheist. We spoke to him for over 10 minutes and he is probably thinking things he never thought about before. Please pray that God will awaken his heart.

As we knocked on doors Don had a couple good opportunities to share the Gospel. Please pray expecially for a lady in her late 60's. She is church of Scotland but isn't saved. But, she said to us, "Now my mother in law is in her 90's and she is one of those born again Christians." We told her that she could have that same confidence if she would take Christ as her Saviour. 

Please pray that God will bless the flyers we put out introducing the idea of a Baptist Church in Newbridge.

This morning I put out flyers in a couple of villages that are nearby. The Lord gave me one divine appointment with a Church of Scotland elder. He told me that he didn't think he would go to Heaven. He listened as I shared the Gospel with him. It's sad to me to meet someone who is religious but lost. Praise God Jesus came to "seek and to save that which was lost." Please pray for this man's salvation.

Please also pray for an older man who attends our church quite often. He is wheelchair bound and tipped his chair in the road last night. His head was cut and he had a couple other abrasions. Thankfully it appears that there were no serious injuries although we believe he was knocked unconscience. I went to the hospital with him last night. I'm sure he would appreciate your prayers for his recovery.

The Lord gave us a good spirit this morning with decent attendance. One young girl who missed her ride this morning walked to church with her older sister. It was encouraging to see her take the extra effort to get there. She is very faithful in her attendance even though she is only 8.

I preached this morning from Isaiah 12 a message entitled, "I'm So Glad I Am Saved." It is the song of the Jews in the Millenium when nationally they have returned to God. What a day that will be! But, what a day it is when any believer is saved. I enjoyed sharing what we have been given in our salvation.