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.

I hope that you are enjoying a wonderful Father's day where you are. God blessed us with a beautiful (can't be more beautiful) type day here in Scotland. If you wonder what perfect is - mid/s 60;s, calm and sunny with lower humidity. My apologies if this testimonial causes any difficulty with envy. But, please remember that Scotland has a LARGE amount of rainfall and wind. Just saying...

The praises today attendance wise are - one of our pre-teens letting us know that she wanted to come to SS and the AM. She is scheduled to be back this evening. We also had a man visit for his second time. He had visited in our absence, but it was good to meet him. He said that he will be back.

I enjoyed preaching this morning on Proverbs 16:7 on Pleasing God. We took the verse apart and enjoyed our time together around God's Word. We also gave our Fathers a copy of Andrew Murray's wee book, "Humility." Please pray that God will use it in the lives of our men.

We had a good week. The mission team departed on Monday. Tuesday I met a fellow minister for a morning in prayer. Wendesday I met another minister friend and did door to door in his area. We had a great visit with a woman yesterday after we knocked on her door. Please pray for the power of God upon our evangelism. 

I want to express my gratitude to God for His goodness to Katie and I. This past Wednesday we celebrated 26 years of marriage. I can't believe how LARGE a number I just said, but I can't deny we were married in the year 2000. God has DONE GREAT THINGS FOR US, whereof we are glad!

In other news, the 21 year old young man continued to attend our evening services on Wednesday and Sundays. We anticipate seeing him again tonight. It's a joy to have him at church. We also had two women, who are believers from our area, visit our Sunday PM service last Sunday. I'm not certain if they will visit further.

There is much going on as far as interest in God's Word and work. Please pray for fruit that will abound. We appreciate your prayers very much! Thank you for praying.

The mission team from Tabernacle Baptist in Virginia Beach was a tremendous blessing to our church. God allowed us to reach all of the ministry goals for their time with us. They helped us with the Ladies' Afternoon Tea. They helped put the personalised covers on around 7k John and romans. We distributed over 5,000 of those copies through 3 villages by our church. The play park, picnic tables and fence are all beautifully refinished. We also put down 4 bulk bags of play bark in the playground  for the kiddoes. We also did street evangelism in Edinburgh. 

Just to prove that we didn't make them work the entired time they were here - we also; Took a day trip into the highlands, saw Stirling Castle, Edinburgh Castle, Tantallon Castle and Craigmillar Castle, toured Edinburgh, Climbed Arthur's Seat and had other assorted fun outings. The team also were a help in the preaching teaching times.

We will miss them - (especially our kids - John and Kay Lee Owenby) - but, we are grateful for the big push they gave to our ministry.

Yesterday was a good day. A young man (21) who visited Wednesday evening was back in church last night. (He came after receiving a John and Romans.) Also, two women visited our church for our Sunday PM. They are believers from our area and it was a blessing to get to know them. One of their daughters had visited our church several years ago. They came because she had also gotten our church flyer.

In other good news, we had a man respond to a leaflet who is from Singapore. He received one during the street evangelism. He hopes to visit our church the next time he returns to Scotland. We also had a man respond to door to door from 3 months ago. He reached out by text saying that God is working in His life. All of the above are things to say loudly - PRAISE THE LORD. 

Yesterday I finished my series on, "Revival" from 2 Chronicles 30. The final message was, "Products of Revival." I am more convinced than ever that we can have revival at any time, because revival is just getting back to VITAL Christianity. I have no doubt that God wants us to be living the vital Christian life and that He is willing to give us all the help we need - if we want it. Would you please continue to pray with us for revival at your church and our own. Thanks for your prayers.

God is blessing our time with the group from Virginia Beach. This morning we went down into Edinburgh and did street evangelism. The team passed out literature as I preached on the street.

After lunch, half of the group put out around 1600 John and Romans and the other half worked on painting and staining the play park and picnice area. When the distribution team got back, we put down new play park in the play area. We had a couple fun outings along the way today as well.

Thank you for praying. The weather has been very unsettled but God gave beautiful weather today. 

God has blessed our time with the group from Tabernacle Baptist in Virginia Beach. Our son-in-law, Pastor John Owenby, and our daughter, Kay Lee, are leading the group. There is a second married couple who are teachers in the school and 3 teens with them as well.

The trip down to London to get the group went very well. We were back in time for our Wednesday PM. The team have been diligent in their labours. We were given 10k John and Roman with 2,000 of our personalised covers already on them. We removed around 5,500 covers and replaced them with our own. We were lacking about 2500 covers to finish the work. So, we'll have to see if we can find out what happened to them.

The Ladies' afternoon tea was such a blessing. There were several sister churches present with nearly 40 ladies in total in attendance. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed their time together. It was a special blessing to have some visitors ourselves. 

The Lord also helped us to put out around 600 of the new bookletts yesterday morning. A special blessing was a divine appointment with a young mother. Please pray that we can help her as she is definitely thinking about God.

This morning the team shared testimonies in the SS hour. They did so welll at it, that we still have 2 to testify for the next Sunday School hour. We also enjoyed a fellowship meal after the morning service. In the morning service I preached the second message on a series on revival. This morning was, "Participating in Revival" from 2 Chronicles 30:10-20. Please pray for us not only to learn how God has worked, but experience His working ourselves. 

This week, we will seek to; do street evangelism in Edinburgh, put out the John and Romans, paint the play park and area fence. We are doing a lot of fun activities with them as well. The team will be with us all of the week and will depart the following Monday. Thank you for praying. God's hand has been evident.