Patty left this morning to drive to Yazoo City to take her dad to his first chemo appt and to follow up on her mom’s C.A.T. scan. The results should be in tomorrow as well so the game plan will be made once the call is received.
I’ll work here at the house and prepare for the upcoming bookings…VBS and 2 kids camps.
Thanks for the prayers as we take care of what God has given us.
Blessings,
John

It’s only been a few days at home and so many things are going on. I am preparing for an upcoming VBS and 2 different camps. Patty has been working diligently trying to finish the set up of Quick Books for our ministry. She is juggling that along with trying to help her parents. Her dad begins chemo on Monday and hopefully her mother’s C.A.T. scan today will find out the next step to deal with the headaches and loss of periphery in the right eye.
Pray that the balance can remain. Each thing on the agenda is important but can also serve as a distraction to keep us scattered as opposed to focused.
Blessings,
John

Whew! Pulled out of Tyler, TX, at 7:45 a.m. and pulled into our driveway at 7:30 p.m. It was a good weekend with a lot of miles in between.
Now, the next two weeks will be used to prepare for upcoming kids camps and I’ll take some time to review the VBS material.
Gonna be a good couple of weeks. Thanks for the continued prayers!
John

Wow, what an amazing day at Green Acres Baptist Church. The 2nd day of Freedom Celebration was a great success. There was a trailer/fish tank with enormous bass where people could practice casting and presenting lures. That was next to the car and bike show. Ooooooo, don’t have to tell you what that was like. There were 2 giant rooms filled with the blow up/ jumper thingys. About anything a child could imagine.
Then there were pony rides, clowns/ballooning, petting zoo, as well as multiple booths with corn dogs, sausage, funnel cakes, powerades, water, diet cokes and all for a dollar each.
They prepared food for 3000 and ran out. I was in the same tent as the tables for eating with my 150 chairs set up in front of the stage for me.
I geared my strongest evangelistic skit material for the 11:30 and 12:30 presentations knowing that would be the largest crowd.
Lot’s of spiritual seed planted.
The weather was spectacular. Obviously you know what we expected when we were booked for TX in July. But, remnants of Hurricane moved through yesterday afternoon/evening with torrential rains but today…cloudy all day and low 80’s with a steady breeze. Super!
Thank you for your prayers. Tomorrow we will go a special patriotic service at the church at 8:15 then head home immediately following the service.
Blessings,
John

Hi gang,
Made it to Tyler. We’ve checked in and are on our own until in the morning when we’ll begin bright and early.
I will have 4 presentations of 20-25 minutes each with the ABC’s of salvation being given at the conclusion of each presentation. PLease pray for clarity in the message and strength of my voice and energy that I will be as effective as possible and that God will be glorified as many come to the Kingdom.

Blessings,
John

Well, we made it to Yazoo City to spend the night. Ran through just a few small thunderstorms and now we’ll lay low tonight and head out tomorrow for Tyler, hopefully arriving mid afternoon.
Please pray for rest and safety as we head on.

Blessings,
John

Great day. By the time the counseling was done we saw 39 professions of faith. We praise the Lord and thank you for your prayers! Keep it up.
Tomorrow we’ll head up to Yazoo City following our time with Parkview.

Blessings,
John

Wow, what a day! Because of the day camp’s involvement in VBS we were not sure how many kids with families would show up. We had a great group of kids sing tonight. They were super and a number of the families were not members. So…..AMEN!

Please pray for tomorrow’s service. The leadership has chosen to use tomorrow for the salvation appeal as opposed to today which was on the schedule. So pray for clarity in the message as I present the gospel.
Blessings and thanks for the continued prayers!
John

Lots of energy in the place today. The younger kids (K-4th) numbered 253 today. We concentrated on learning music for family night tomorrow night. This church has done family night on Wednesday for several years to involve the usual Wednesday night crowd and that’s a good idea in and of itself but trying to learn new music in that short span is a daunting task. The kids are doing well, so we’ll see.
One of the songs for music class this year in the Lifeway (Saddle Ridge Ranch) stuff is a song entitled “Like Jesus”. In my opinion, one of the best songs Jeff Slaughter has written for VBS.
The last group I have for music class is 1st grade. When we finished, one little fellow raised his hand and said; “that song, “Like Jesus” makes me cry and big alligator tears showed up. I told him that listening to Jesus and wanting to be like him was the best thing he could do and to cry when singing that song to Him was just fine.
A really cool moment………
Thanks for the prayers,
john

Whew! Another “first day” in VBS. Crazy things but it worked out well. Enrollment of about 230 so far and lots and lots of energy.

My opening session involved K-4th graders. Parkview Baptist has separated the 5th-7th graders to do a special program set up for them.
Pray for strength. Vocally, I’m a bit tired but doing fine.
Thanks,
John