We are getting to see God's hand in the work of the ministry continually - and we praise Him. Thank you for your intercession as it is vital to what God is doing.

On Friday, God gave Katie and I the joy of leading a young mother to the Lord. Please pray for God's rich blessing upon this new child of His. She was in church this morning for her first time with her baby girl.

Our friend, who visited last week, and his children are also excited to see how God is leading them to our church. Please pray for God's continued good work in this family.

Another family, who moved to our area from another good church in Aberdeen, joined our church membership today. What a blessing! 

Our attendance in SS is growing, although our neighbourhood kids were absent this morning. Please pray that they will be encouraged to keep coming. Some are very close to earning a Bible (five times in attendance.) 

I preached this morning on Ephesians 2, Let God Have His Way. All of the services and children's ministries went very well.

The evangelism outings also went well this week. My family did street evangelism (Street preaching and handing out leaflets) with a new couple in our church. We also put out leaflets in an area of Edinburgh near the church.

Well - it's a good day at church when you have 8 children attend Sunday School/ Church for their first time. That's the kind of morning the Lord gave to us. It was a blessing to have a long term friend of our's attend church with his 4 children. God is really doing a great work in their family and we are very excited about God's goodness. 

We also had 4 other children come for their first time on their own. (3 of these 4 came to our Holiday Bible Club, but had not yet been to church.) We have recently restructured our kid's programs to include Children's church. Please pray for God's good work in the hearts of these kids and that they would love church. They all had a good time today. It was also a joy to have a couple visit from the States, whom we had met during our deputation years. 

This morning, we looked Jeremiah 10, "Close to God or Not." It was a message on getting close to God and enjoying His blessings. Please pray for our church family to remember God and His great goodness to those who walk with Him. (Idols like to creep into our life and dethrone our LORD.)

The new couple in our church joined us on the street evangelism this week. They first came two weeks ago after hearing the street preaching. God's hand is evident. We know you are praying and appreciate it very much. To God be the glory for what He is doing at SFBC.

The Lord gave us a good morning. The child who visited last Sunday morning was back with her friend. This other friend had come a few years ago with another child who was attending our church. It was great to have her back in church.

An adult son of a new family in our church also visited. It was a blessing to get to know him. He actually lives closer to the church than his parents and we hope to see him come again.

We had an audio issue this morning and so we do not have a recording of the service. But, we enjoyed our time together in God's Word as we looked at Jeremiah 9:23-24 - Glorying in God.

This is our busy weekend. We leave our house at 2:30 this afternoon for a 3:00PM service at a local care home. Thankfully, the new couple who started attending our church are planning to meet us there. We also have a teen girl going to help us. Tomorrow evening is our monthly Ladies' Bible study.

Our Wednesday night this past week was encouraging. We had 4 of our new adult attendees added to our regulars for that service. What a blessing to have them join us and to have two children back who had been absent for a year. God is good. We are thankful for what He is doing and thank you for your prayers! All glory to God for what He is doing! He has been good to us.

Thank you so much for praying for God's hand of blessing upon our Holiday Bible Club. We had a great week. Our NBT evangelists, Levi and Nathan, were a tremendous help. They both did an excellent job.

God blessed us with 32 children in total. We had 2 children receive Christ as their Saviour. We had about 40 out for our family pizza party night. 

A special blessing from the week was having a couple visit the church on Wednesday night because they had heard the street preaching. I had preached without amplification because my speaker battery was dead. There is another part to the story which is incredible. A man who said he pastor's the largest church in India gave me a cash hand shake. When we got back to the minibus, we discovered that he had put five 50 pound notes into my hand. This was an answer to prayer as it strengthened our NBT evangelist's love offering.

That visiting couple from Wednesday night returned today. They are looking for a church and God may be leading them to our's. We'd love this - if this is indeed the case. Please pray for them to know the Lord's leading.

Additionally, one of our repeat evening visitors came to church this morning. That was a blessing. We also had one of our HBC kids come out who has not come to church before. There were some disappointments as a mum with 3 kids who was supposed to come did not. Please pray that we see them out for church in the near future. They had definitely said they would be there.

This coming Wednesday night we have other kids who are supposed to attend. Please pray for God to continue the good work He was doing this past week. We are adjusting our kid's classes with the hope that God will build them up.

I preached this morning on Isaiah 61, "Liberty, Comfort and Commission" - a message on the Messiah's message. We had a great time around God's work. Our SS attendance was better than it has been in the past. God is working in answer to your prayers. THANK YOU for praying and for following along.

Thank you for praying for our Holiday Bible Club. We had 16 children yeseterday morning and 5 teens last night. (Some of these numbers are duplicates because 12 year olds can attend both morning and evening rallies.) Today, we had 10 new children with a total of 24 this morning. In total, 26 children have come to HBC.

This is outstanding and we are very thankful for God's goodness. Our minibus has been nearly full of children yesterday and today. Please pray for God's grace for those who are doing the work of the ministry this week and for the children. This morning one of our faithful church children responded to the invitation to get saved and prayed to receive Jesus into their heart. Praise the Lord. "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."

On another note: our family just watched my Grandma Roth's funeral. She passed away while we were in Germany. She was 96 and finished her course for the Lord Jesus Christ. Her funeral was a sweet rememberance of her life and a glorification of her Saviour. May God help us to live out the same legacy. He is worthy!

Thank you for praying for our trip to Germany. It was a TREMENDOUS blessing and it always is. Our travels went extremely well. The weather was gorgeous. The fellowship was awesome and the preaching was impactful. Our participation in a skit on Thursday night even went well. 

We arrived back here late afternoon yesterday. Our NBT (Neighbourhood Bible Time) guys also arrived yesterday. Please pray for God to us Nathan (working with the kids) and Levi (working with the teens.) Please also pray for our family as Katie teaches the Bible stories and we serve the young people this week. 

The schedule is children in the mornings and teens at night. On Friday we have a family pizza night that is always a lot of fun. We will preach the Gospel on that evening as well.

We had a visitor this morning from our street evangelism. Josh Hill spoke with him and invited him to the church. We may see him again, though he lives in the heart of the city. It was a joy to meet him.

I preached a resurrection message this morning for Luke 24. (Biblical Proofs of the Bodily Resurrection of Jesus.) We had a good time around God's Word. Many in our church family are still away on holiday. British summer break is only 6 weeks and everyone heads off at the same time.

Thanks for praying for this ministry week. God will work here in answer to your prayers there.  

Just a quick note - the car is packed and ready - heading to BWM family camp in Germany. Please pray for the power of God to work in the heart of each missionary family. Please also pray for safety for all those traveling. We will arrive tomorrow evening and head back late Friday morning.

The Lord gave us a goood morning despite very low attendance. Many of our church families are on holiday. I preached this morning on Isaiah 6 "Sight and Sound" of being in the presence of God.

I received an encouraging text after the morning service. A young man I led to the Lord last year is following along online. He is a street preaching and personal evangelism diving appointement. God is working. Please pray for him to grow in the Lord.

When we get back, we have a week of Holiday Bible Club. Please pray for God's preparation in the children's hearts. Thanks for your prayers.

God's grace continues to be evident. We enjoyed having a repeat visitor this past Wednesday who indicates a desire to continue coming. We are excited about that and pray we can be a blessing to her.

We also enjoyed having Josh and Hannah Hill (MK's from Ireland) visit us. We did street preaching and evangelism with them on Thursday.

This morning our attendance was down, but our minibus was involved in bringing some to church. That's a blessing as last week there was no one to collect. 

I preached this morning on, "Spiritual Fitness" from Proverbs 3:1-10. There are 5 actions statements in those proverbs with 5 explanations of the results of that spiritual discipline. I believe it was an effective study for our church family. Please pray that we would be spiritually fit.

This week is a normal week. Next week our family leaves by car for Germany. We leave after the AM service and arrive at family camp with our mission board on Monday night. Your prayers for God's blessings upon our travels and upon the camp are greatly appreciated. It's always a blessing though the travel is pretty intense. We drive a right hand drive on the right hand side of the rode in Europe. The excitement begins as you drive through the curvy mountains of the Black Forest in Germany. (It's even more exciting for your passenger in the front of the car.) :) Thanks for praying!

I was not able to update my webpage earlier today and I'm thankful that I was hindered. Now, I can share with you that our young man who has been coming has accepted Christ. Please rejoice with the angels in Heaven and pray for God's blessing upon this new believer's faith. It was a joy to explain the Gospel to Him and to witness him putting His trust in the Lord. Also, a first time visitor came Wednesday night. She enjoyed her time with us and intends to be back this following Wednesday. Praise God!

The Lord gave us a very good day. Our attendance this evening was a real encouragement. Similarly, last Sunday evening was a tremendous blessing as we enjoyed a singspiration. The church also surprised me with a 50th Birthday party fellowship following the service. I thought it was an ordinary fellowship meal, but it was an extra-ordinary time. :) I praise God for the 50 years He has given me and pray I can number my days and use them well for Him.

This morning God blessed our services. I preached on, "Be an Overcomer" from Revelation 3 and Christ's words to the Laodicean Church. 

God blessed our outreach this week as I street preached on Monday, did outreach with Pastor Dillman in Livinston on Wednesday and on Saturday Katie and the two older boys put out HBC leafletts. (Mac and I were on a road trip on Saturday.)

Please pray for a fruitful week ahead. Some of you know the Les and Jenny Hill family. Their son, Josh, and daughter, Hannah, are flying over on Thursday to spend the day with us. We anticipate doing some ministry outings with them as we show them around. Thank you as always for your prayers WHICH AVAIL MUCH.

This has been our busy weekend - thank you for your prayers. The youth activity on Friday evening went really well. The kids played 3 table games and rotated every two minutes, no matter how the game was getting on. They enjoyed this team competition. Pastor Dillman shared a good challenge on Samuel for the teens.

The Gala Day was non stop beginning to end. We had so many good conversations. The ladies' helped the kids put together about 130 hand coloured badges (buttons.) The archery bows were seldom laying on the ground and the same is true of the been bags for the bean bag toss. God kept the rain away. He has honoured that prayer request EVERY YEAR that we have been in the Gala (over 10 years). Thank you for praying. We thank the Lord for the strength He gave and trust Him for His blessings upon those whom we met.

This morning we had a lot of children out for Sunday School and church. What a blessing! Please pray for grace for our teachers. I preached this morning on, "The Prince Preaches" from Jesus message to the Jews found in John 6. Specifically, I preached on stumbling blocks to salvation.

Our hymn sing this evening is not a lot of work, because Dr. Doug Bachorik is doing all the work. Dr. Bachoric, from Maranatha Baptist University, has put together a power point and will lead our singspiration tonight. We are looking forward to what the Lord is going to do.

We had a first time visitor at church this morning as a relative was visiting. We also had someone come for their first time on Sunday AM. Thankfully, this young man has come to several other services as well. It's been our joy to get to know him.

Please pray for eternal fruit from the labours of our church family. God's hand is continually evident in answer to your prayers.