First, sorry for the delay in blogging and we appreciate you checking in with us so regularly.  We simply had no way to blog while working at First Presbyterian in Hattiesburg.  We got to Hattiesburg Friday afternoon around 3 p.m. and moved things in for the evenings program.  Things began around 5:30 with dinner then around 6:45 I had kids ages 4 through 14.  Whew!  Huge age spread which made things a bit difficult.  It seemed that what happened was that those 12-14 years old were present with my ministry when I was here about 6 years ago and had fond memories so they just had to come back in.

We did the same thing Saturday night then loaded our equipment having finished our presentations.  Sunday we attended Sunday School and worship then ate lunch with the missions committee and the other missionaries.  Following lunch we headed to Columbia, MS, about 35 minutes down the road.  About 4 p.m. we headed out to Goss Baptist Church to set up for the evening concert.  Everything went well.  Tomorrow we will do a “teaser” in morning chapel time at Columbia Academy and hopefully get a good group interested in the Spiritual Renewal night at the school tomorrow night.  There will be a couple of other things going on then I will conclude with a concert and an invitation. 

You can pray that I do exactly what God wants so as to be as effective as possible with all the ages that will be in attendance.  There will be ages 4 through adults.

Thanks,

John