We finished in Brookhaven, MS, with the morning service.  Everything went well and there were 2 different people that wanted to talk following the service.  It seemed that God had placed things on their hearts and neither knew exactly what to do from there.  These were pretty large “things”.

It was good to see God use something I said to basically affirm what He was already doing in their hearts so we praise Him and look forward to what He will do.

Now, we are home for a couple of days and will be preparing for our trip to Dayton, OH, where I will be preaching for an inner city ministry.  Pray for Edgewood Baptist Center Friday through Sunday.

Blessings,

John

It was a good night.  As always, the pastor had hoped for more but there were a couple of other churches that brought buses so the crowd was pretty good.  We focused on the family and encouraged the heads of the family to stand up as Joshua and say; “as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”.  Time is short and it’s time to make a stand.

Tomorrow we will share in the morning service then at the conclusion we’ll break all the equipment down, load it up the head home.

Thank you for your continued prayers,

John

Hi friends,

Had a great night tonight.  We arrived at the church around 5 p.m. to set up.  Our intentions were to patch into the worship center’s sound system.  I do that many times.  While moving things in we were told that an older member of the church had died and that the funeral would be at the church in the morning.  That meant breaking down and moving things out of the sanctuary.  Well, it was a strange set up in that my sound and the church sound just didn’t want to work together.  That meant me setting up my touring system.  Yuk!  The sound is always great but the extra work particularly with the funeral wasn’t something to look forward to.

Nevertheless, that’s what we did and the program came together very well.  The pastor was pleased with the turnout and the kids were really responsive.  Tomorrow night is family night.  It will all begin with a hot dog supper followed by the service.  Pray as we go deeper tomorrow night, challenging each families walk.

Blessings,

John

We had a great closing service.  Thank you so much for your prayers.  We had many decisions and once the counseling was complete we had 8 come to Christ, 6 come saying they had made a decision but never followed through in believer’s baptism and 2 feeling led into possible Christian service.

We rejoice in all the victories witnessed last night and pray the fruit will continue for children’s pastor, David Joiner.  Got in late last night and will use today to “reload” before heading out tomorrow for Brookhaven, MS.

Blessings

John

Well, it was a great day.  It started with the morning session at 9 a.m.  Professional photographer, Ken Jenkins, shared using some of his photographs.  He has a studio in the smokie mountains and travels extensively.  Many of his pictures have appeared in large publications including National Geographic.  The photography was spectacular and his message was wonderful.

Following that session was a “round table” discussion about revival let by the pastor Michael Catt and all the guest speakers for the conference.  Really nice.

Once that was done it was time for lunch and a message followed.  We had a little time off this afternoon before the evening session began.  We had 125 kids and the energy was HUGE, wow!  After our time was up (we thought beginning at 6 p.m. and ending a little after 8 would be enough time to finish the “big church” service but it turned out that revival broke out.  When we finished, the report from the adult service is that the 2nd of the 2 guest speakers wasn’t even able to preach.  Revival broke out at the invitation following the first speaker and when I left they were still baptizing.  How bout that?

Thank you for your continued prayers.  We’ll wrap up tomorrow night.

Blessings,

John

Hi once again.  Made it to Sherwood Baptist Church around 3:30 this afternoon to take part in their yearly, “Refresh” conference.  We had a great group of kids, about 130 or so.  Trying to coordinate our time to work with the adult service going on in another building still proves to be a bit difficult but things went well tonight, all in all.

Pray that we’ll see God work and move in a mighty way the next two days.

Blessings,

John

We wrapped up everything tonight with a good service.  We had some there tonight that come every Wednesday but had not attended Monday or Tuesday.  We increased attendance each night so everyone was pleased.  We pray that something that was said or done has planted a seed in a young mind.

It is an exciting church with many things going on so remember Golden Acres Baptist Church.

Blessings,

John

Things went well tonight.  We had a few more and a few new faces so that was good.  The kids have been responsive all through the singing and speaking.  To have them stick with me in the ventriloquism is not asking much as you can imagine but when you work with a group ages 6-11 you can sometimes lose them in those other areas.  They’ve been great!

Keep praying as we wrap things up tomorrow night.
John

Here we are in Phenix City, AL.  We left home at 12 noon today to get here, set up, and get situated.  We arrived and went straight to the church, Golden Acres Baptist Church, to move in equipment.  Once we set up the children’s pastor asked us what we’d like to do.  Did we want to go grab a bite or what?  We wanted to go by the hotel to move in equipment, after all it was only 4 p.m.  We told him we would meet at the resturant around 5.  He looked at me and said; “Well, that’s about 3 minutes from now”.  Hmmmmmm.  Here’s a bit of trivia for you.  Phenix City is the only city in the state of AL that is on eastern  time zone.  This is because it is the sister city of Columbus, GA, but did any of my AL friends tell me that?  Huh?  Nope!  Not even the children’s pastor in all of our phone and e-mail messages leading up to this event.  Whew……I’m sure glad we arrived when we did.

He wanted to have the salvation emphasis tonight.  The numbers were a bit low so the energy level was down a bit.  We had a few responses that are going to be followed up on so pray for the seed that was planted.  In the meantime, we’ll keep pressing on for Tues and Wed.

Blessings,

John

Thank you for your prayers.  It was a good day.  Northwest Baptist Church had more kids (and parents, some visiting) than they’ve ever had, so the pastor tells me.  I did 35 minutes for the kids during Sunday School then about 45 minutes during the morning service.  A pizza lunch followed for all families.  Lots of fun.

We headed home after the lunch and loading of our equipment and arrived home around 7:30.  We’ll make a quick turn-around and be ready to leave for Phenix City, AL, tomorrow, late morning.

Thanks for the prayers,

John