Bless your heart.  Thank you for checking in on us even though I told you we’d probably not be able to report.  We appreciate you and your prayers.

It’s been a pretty hectic and exhaustive schedule but a rewarding one as we saw 7 kids come to Christ.  It was a small group in attendance this year and the camp manager was a bit disappointed with the turnout but obviously God had the ones here He needed to have.  We rejoice in those decisions.

We wrapped up the retreat around noon today, loaded all the sound equipment back in the trailer to drive about 200 yds to a next door church where we unloaded and set up for a family night tonight and tomorrow morning.  The church is having a hot dog supper for the families of the community followed by a fun night concert by me then tomorrow morning at 10:30 I will be leading in the morning service with the emphasis being children’s ministry along with the family.

When that service is complete, we’ll load everything and head home.  Pray for us.  We are pretty tired and the drive is approximately 450 miles we have facing us tomorrow. 

Thank you for your prayers.  You are a blessing!
John

Hi friends,

This is going to be an unusual post in that it’s probably the only one for the weekend.  I will most likely not have internet access while at this campground so I’ll just give you a prayer guideline and would appreciate your prayers while I’m on the field.

We will travel to the camp today.  It’s about 9 hrs. so we are going a day early to have tomorrow to set up and focus on the work at hand.  Things begin tomorrow night following dinner.  We have one session tomorrow night at 7 p.m.

On Saturday, the first service follows breakfast and is at 8:30 a.m.  After a break there is another service at 10:30 a.m.  Everything wraps up with lunch at 11:30 a.m.

There is a church next door to the camp that has held me over to do a kids weekend for them.  That will begin Saturday night.  So, we’ll move equipment to the next door auditorium sometime Saturday afternoon.  It will be a supper for families at 5:30 followed by my concert to the family at 6:30.

On Sunday, I will have the morning service at 10:30 and again minister to the family. 

As you can see this is a very busy weekend.  Pray for vocal strength and safety in travel.  Not sure about giving an invitation at the camp.  I’ll have to survey the crowd and see how young they are.

Thanks for the prayers,
John

It was a good night and we appreciate the prayers.  The storms pretty much cleared out and things went well.   The church raised about $4500  for the night so they were pretty pleased. 

We plan on heading out in the morning for home so your continued prayers for our safety would, again, be appreciated.  Next on the map is our time in Eunice, LA.  We will travel on Thursday and begin Friday evening.

Blessings,
John

Hi friends,

Well, the trip up was a little longer than planned.  No problems just some really slow traffic on two-laned roads and when you’re pulling a trailer there’s not a lot you can do.

Some pretty nasty storms have moved into and through the area today and we are praying that things will settle before we move in equpiment around 4:30.  The concert follows a meal and silent auction so I will begin around 7 or so.  Kinda hard to set up so early but because everything is in the same building, that’s the way it’s got to be.

I’ll give you an update later tonight after we return.  Just pray for the weather and the crowd.  This is a benefit concert for a mission trip some in the church are making to Honduras.

Blessings,
John

Heading out first thing in the morning for Batesville, MS.  Using tomorrow as a travel day, we will attend Sunday morning service at a friend’s church the present a benefit concert Sunday evening at First United Methodist in Batesville.  It’s a concert to raise funds for a mission trip some in the church are taking.

Pray that though the entertainment and hopeful inspiration we’ll see people reached for the Kingdom.  I’ll be in touch!

John

It was a busy day beginning with a pancake breakfast for the community followed by egg hunts set up in age appropriate groups, then a gospel singing all before the service at 10:45.

The service went well and there were 9 decisions in the adult service.  We headed home just ahead of the storms around 1:00 p.m. and arrived home at 7:00.  

We’ll spend this week preparing for the upcoming concert weekend in MS.  Thanks for the prayers,

John

The day started when housekeeping began banging on the door before 8 a.m.  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?  Fortunately, we were just about ready to head out for the day so they only rushed us by a little bit.  We went to the church around 9:15 and talked through everything with the sound guy of the Jake Smith Band.  I did 30 minutes in between their gig.  It was fun although difficult.

Following that we headed back to the hotel where we were meeting some friends of ours and we drove into the “city”.  New Orleans.  Geez…..folks, that is God’s freak show.  We walked and walked and walked and walked before finally leaving then eating out.  It was a good day with friends.

Tomorrow we will go to the church around 9:30 and gear up for the kids worship that begins at 10:45.  Around 12:00 we’ll start the journey home.

Continue to pray for us and our effectiveness toward the kids and safe travel.

Blessings
John

Luling, LA, is a small town west, southwest, of New Orleans.  We pull out tomorrow morning (Friday) for the 6 hr. drive.  We’ll check into the hotel on the outskirts of N.O. then on Saturday we’ll get busy.  Things begin at the church Saturday morning around 8:30 and run til noon. 

Then on Sunday things, again, will begin early and ending by noon.  Pray for our travel.  Strong thunderstorms expected.

Blessings,
John

We arrived home last night after a 10 day road trip.  It was a tiring one but filled with a number of victories.  While in Mathews, LA, we saw a 73 year dear lady who’s been active in the church most of her life, come to Christ.  Seeing her experience real peace and relief was a really special time.

Following the revival services we headed to Yazoo City to visit overnight with parents and do odd jobs around the house.  I was able to “fix” a few things, cut the yard and put out fertilizer for dad so that was nice.

On Saturday we drove to Belmont, MS, for a weekend of ministry.  Saturday night was AWANA Family night and it included games, inflatables, supper, and a service by me.  Lots of fun.  On Sunday I led in the service.  At the invitation there was a young couple that came forward.  The wife has been active with the kids programs at the church and her husband is a different denomination and attends, ordinarily, elsewhere.  He came forward to profess Christ as Savior, saying he realized he had been living without Christ and had been baptized having never made that specific decision to follow Christ.  That was awesome!

Thank you for your prayers.  We’re home until Friday when we head to Luling, LA, for an Easter weekend.

Blessings,
John

Another good service.  Unfortunately no movement at the invitation but the people present were very responsive throughout the service and the spirit was good.

We appreciate your prayers throughout this meeting and covet them as we head out tomorrow for Yazoo City.  Pray for wisdom in our travel schedule.  Yazoo City is expecting severe storms tomorrow with hail and possible tornados so we are planning, right now, to hang down here for just a bit hoping to time our trip to avoid the storms.

We will layover in Yazoo and on Saturday take the next leg of our journey to northeast MS, on Saturday and Sunday.

Thanks again,
John