It was a great homecoming. This morning I was in children’s Sunday School and did a spot in the morning service as well as played the offertory.
Tonight was a great night as I had the entire service and lots of memories as I looked out over the congregation. Of course, the first thing I told everyone who watched me grow up to FORGET everything they saw.
We will head down to Biloxi, MS (gulf coast) tomorrow to be a guest in the Mississippi South Regional Senior Adult Evangelism Conference.
Pray for travel as we drive first to the coast then home following our program there.

Blessings,
Johnn

Great camp! Wet, wet, wet! I’m tired of the rain but God worked through it all with 2 professions of faith and several others that will be followed up on in the near future. Thanks for the prayers.
We packed up and loaded in the rain (no covered drive) and headed to Yazoo City. Looking forward to sharing in the morning service and doing a concert in the evening for the family. It will be a good day and a bit of a homecoming. FBC Yazoo City is the church I was raised in so pray for a good turnout and a nice evening. Still lots of rain in the forcast.
Blessings,
John

Well, those of you that faithfully check in have, no doubt, wondered if there would ever be a post on this site again. We’ve had some down time so I’ve taken advantage of it but now it’s time to hit the road. Today we’ll be driving to Florence, MS, just south of Jackson, for a preteen camp with 192 kids.
Pray for safety in travel and pray for lives to be changed. Lord willing, I’ll be able to post and give you updates.
Blessings,
John

It was a great retreat with over 50 men.  The retreat, sponsored by Hillcrest Baptist in Enterprise, AL, was held at beautiful Lake Martin, Dadeville, AL.  There were 38 men participating in the golf part of the retreat, 10 bikers riding a different route of over 300 miles each day only to return for dinner and worship and there were 6 or 7 fishermen taking advantage of the beautiful waters.

There was wonderful worship each evening and a prayer service on Friday night with many recommitments.  Thank you for your prayers,

John

Here we go.  After some nice time at home, I will pull out early in the morning to head to Dadeville, AL, for the Hillcrest Men’s Retreat.  Our men go to a beautiful area of AL that offers golf, fishing, and some nice curvy backroads for motorcycle riding.  We have men taking part in each activity.  At the conclusion of the day we will meet at a local church (they have graciously offered their fellowship hall for our worship services) for a great time of worship and Bible study.

The retreat will go through Saturday noon.  Please pray for safety as we travel and as the motorcyclists travel their daily 300 routes. Their will be some guest that perhaps are not Christians so pray for them as well as each man that there will be a desire to get in a deeper relationship with the Lord.

Blessings,
John

It was a great day.  About 20 minutes from the house is Kinston, AL, and Ino Baptist Church.  This church is in the middle of a pasture but when you get inside the place is full with folks, energy, and a sweet spirit.  I did a kids spot with one of my friends and played the offertory this morning then had the evening service. 

It was a blessing as the congregation participated with me in worship and was very responsive.  Here’s an addtional blessing…a number of Hillcrest members came out to join in the service.  Man, what a tremendous blessing God has given us through this church  We praise God for all He’s done.

We’re home now for a couple of weeks and look forward to the time.

Blessings,
John

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