God blessed our building dedication today. We had a good turnout, good fellowship, good time of sharing in God's Word, good teaching for the children, plenty of helpers, etc. Praise the Lord. Thank you for praying for this day.

Although our sending church pastor was unable to attend. He was able to participate by way of video. I preached the first session after sharing the testimony of how God has led our church thus far and Pastor Craig Ledbetter preached the final session. When he was finished we all came to the front and had a special prayer time as we dedicated the property to be used for God's glory.

Tomorrow is our grand opening service and we have invited our community to attend and are providing a bbq in the afternoon and an open house. Please pray that God will bless this effort and that His hand will be evident.

I will share more photos soon, but here is one I took when the video was being played.

We are less than a week away from dedicating our property to the Lord and having our grand opening. Tonight we start rearranging the church into what it was meant to be in the mind of God. We praise Him for His clear leading in every decision we have made. 

Wednesday will be our first meeting in the sanctuary as we test the sound, video, livestream, etc. We'll have a special prayer and praise time. Saturday is our dedication and Sunday is our grand opening. Thank you for your prayers.

We had a special morning with really good attendance and a newleywed Christian couple joining us. It was great to get to know them as they have only recently moved into our area. They got our leaflet at a mechanics shop where I have been allowed to leave our leafletts. I can't wait to share with my mechanic that someone came because of that.

I preached on, "Great Gospel Clothing," on matching the Gospel with our lives instead of clashing with it. We had a good service and enjoyed our study of Acts in SS. 

Please continue to pray as we go through this week. The doors need to be hung. The pulpit needs to be finished. There is painting, decorating, etc. and we just need God to guide us through it all. Our biggest prayer is for God to be glorified next weekend. Please lift that request up to God's throne.

We are two weeks away from the Grand Opening of our sanctuary. We'll have a trial run in there the Wednesday before that date. And, our dedication is Saturday the 13th of July. These are exciting days and it is fun to see the Lord's hand in some details as we pray that we can be ready with everthing on that date.

We have joiners coming tomorrow to bid hanging some doors for us. Another landscaping company is scheduled to cut through concrete and install drain tiles to fix a moisture issue. The baptistry guys are coming later next week. The pulpit restoration is nearly completed. So, praise the Lord!

We had a good Wednesday PM, Youth Activity on Friday (a sister church joined us) and Sunday morning services. It was good to have some church family back this morning that we had not seen in a few weeks. We also presented Bible to two little girls. That is always fun! I preached from 2 Thessalonians 1 on, "Go On for God." It's amazing that the church in Thessalonica existed despite the missionaries being there for a short time and despite the persecution.

Please continue to pray for the many details coming together for the activies of the 13/14 July! Thank you!

The Lord blessed our outreach and work at the church this week. Katie and Mac have continued our painting of the exterior of the property. Logan, Nelson, and Parker helped me put out flyers yesterday and today. Today, Pastor Dillman was also out doing outreach with us. 

We've gotten to around 2,000 homes in two days which is really good for the 2-3 hours each day. We are putting out our new Gospel flyer which announces our events and we're putting out the sports card size invited to Holiday Bible Club (VBS.)  In other evagnelistic news, I was able to do street preaching on Monday morning.

Our Bible study was a delight this evening. It's fun to see new believers growing in the Lord. Several are advancing in their walk with Him. Our study tonight was David motivating his soldiers to take the stronghold of Jerusalem. There is great motivation found in that text for us as well as we seek promotion from our King and seek to please Him.

On Friday we have a joint youth activity with Pastor Dillman's church. We'll also be putting out leaflets on Saturday morning. Please pray for good weather and God's grace for these extra activities. Thanks for praying with us.

God blessed us with great weather for the Gala. This is a matter of prayer annually and God has continually provided the weather that was needed. 

Our activities at the Gala were well attended as is normal. We were non-stop busy from about 1:30-4:30. We have archery, photo board with cut outs, train rides (pulled), corn hole, disk golf and badge (button) making. We hand out invites to our HBC and to our church service. Please pray for God to use our testimony for Him in the community to increase His work in our area.

This morning was pretty well attended. We enjoyed having two visitors from Virginia with us. I preached this morning on, "The Mountain Top of God's Call" from Moses' call in Exodus 3. 

Our painting work on the front of the church was completed and it is beautiful! The Lord blessed us with 3 days mostly without precipitation and allowed us to get that done. Please pray for wisdom what building work to accomplish before our dedication service on 13 July. We can't do everything, but we want to do what we can to get ready. Thank you for praying for our family and ministry.

I want to thank the Lord for giving me Katie (Hansen) to be my wife. We celebrated 24 years of marriage on Monday. Tuesday was a special day as I enjoyed a day of prayer at Blair Atholl with 4 other men. Today, my family got back to work on the church building. We are painting the front of the church...around the windows, soffets, and sandstone foundation. After a LOT of rainy weather (weeks/months), our weather is finally settled for a few days in a row. Please pray for God's guidance and blessing as we work to finish this part of the project.

We enjoyed our fellowship tonight at church. We are studying the life of David. Tonight was lesson 58 and David has just been made King of Israel and Judah. It's been a good study

Satuday is the Loanhad Gala Day. Our church will be participating as usual and providing archery/ badge (button) making and a bean bag toss. We'll be inviting children to our HBC and giving out some invites to our church as well. Please pray with us for a good weather day and God's blessing upon our activities. Thanks for praying.

Life is returning to normal. We have had extra duties as we get back into the swing of things. One of those extras was writing an announcement and Gospel tract for a mass mailing. God blessed us with time to get that sorted this week and we look forward to God's Word going out in our area. Please be praying for God to use the invitation and message on the back. It is entitled, "The Carpenter's Hand" and speaks of Jesus ministry of mending broken lives.

We have had good attendance at church although that did not seem to be the case when we started this morning. Thankfully, many were just running late. We had 28 in total last Sunday and anticipate a similar number today. Please pray for continued church growth and for believer's to really grow together in the Lord. There is a sweet Spirit in our church..

I enjoyed preaching on, "Fruitful Lives" from John 15 and the Lord's encouragement to His disciples about abiding in Him. If ALL believers truly were abiding in Christ our lives, our families and our ministries would be incredibly fruitful and God would be glorified by the "much fruit." Let's pray for one another!

We are looking forward to serving the young people in our community this coming Saturday as we have a booth at the Gala Day. Please pray for good weather and for God's grace for the day. Thank you for your prayers. we are often reminded that God's hand is evident in answer to your intercession.

Life is returning to normal as we get back into duties at our church and home. God blessed us with a great Sunday. We had a first time adult visitor on Sunday morning. They attended with someone who has become a regular attendee at our church. That was a blessing. We also had some young people show up after the service and we were able to show them around. They said they will visit a church service at some point.

I preached on, "Worthy of Praise" from Psalm 147. I have been preaching monthly a series entilted, "Thou Art Worthy." I continued that on Sunday as we looked at the many reasons the Psalmist gives to Praise the LORD.

We had a busy Sunday as we hosted a family from church after the service, showed a photo update from our travels in the PM service and observed the Lord's table. It was a great day!

Evangelism is now back on track. I put out Gospel leaflets on Monday morning. Today I was able to get into Edinburgh to do street preaching on Princess St. God gave liberty and enablement. After preaching over an hour, I was packing up and a man in a suit approched me. He was working outside his place of business near where I preach. He said, "I just want to thank you. It's good to see a Christian preacher getting out and doing something." This was a greater encouragement than a believer giving me the same message. Please pray for that man as I will likely see him again.

The greatest antagonism today took place about 42 minutes into my preaching. A young man walked by and then came back to steal my literature and put it in the bin. Please pray for God to awaken the heart of that lad. God's good. Thank you for keeping up and for praying for our ministry.

Mac is growing up and hit double digits today! Obviously, his birthday is on D-day. It's amazing that Katie and I no longer have children in single digits. This has not been the case for the past 21 years. Wow - yep, I guess we are getting old. We are so thankful for the children God has given to us. 

Benson is currently flying out West to AZ to be a counselor at the Bill Rice Ranch - West Branch. Please pray for grace for him as he settles into that summer ministry. 

John and Kay Lee Owenby are settling into ministry in Virginia Beach. John is the new youth pastor and Kay Lee is going to be working in church publications. God has provided a great place for them to live as they settle into the area.

It was a blessing to do evangelism with Don Dillman yesterday as he came my way. We put out literature about 2 miles from our church. God gave two opportunities to speak with people about the Lord. 

We really enjoyed being back with our church family last night. On Wednesday nights the adults and teens are studying the life of David. We were in 2 Samuel 3 last night where Abner is meeting with David and is then killed by Joab. We had a really good Bible study and the attendance was good for a Wed. PM. Thanks for your prayers as we get back into church ministry in Scotland.

Thank you for praying for our travels. We arrived back in Scotland late yesterday morning, Scottish time. It is great to be back home. We've seen a couple of our church family and love catching up with them.

The trip back was pretty uneventful as a whole. But, as I wrote our prayer letter at the airport in Newark, God did give me a great divine appointment. My table was surrounded by a large group of Jewish girls who were on a trip to NYC from Las Angelos. I was able to speak to them about Jesus CHRIST. (The Messiah.) Please pray for God to guard the seed that He placed in the soil of their hearts. One young lady in particular had a lengthy conversation with me.

Today has been a catch up day. Lord willing, I will be back doing evangelism tomorrow, weather permitting. Thank you for your prayers for our ministry.