Please pray for friends of ours up in Aberdeen, Carl and Leta Miller. Brother Carl has had a heart attack and is now having heart failure. His wife has put the following update on facebook, "He has had a heart attack at some point in the past few weeks & now has heart failure. His lungs are full of fluid. They have given him a pump with an intravenous drug to open his veins & given him several blood thinners to help drain the fluid from the lungs into his kidneys since his heart can't do it. I haven't seen the cardiologist yet. They had several emergency admissions this morning & since he has been stabilized at the moment, they have gone to help the others. 

He has complained of breathlessness the past few weeks after carrying a box of groceries in that was heavy. He had the 'sharp' pain then that they say was probably the heart attack. If you do not get treated soon as a heart attack hits, the heart gets more & more damaged with time until it 'fails' & can't do what it's supposed to do. He has had pain in his chest off & on for awhile since lifting the box but would play it down to me. He didn't want me to worry!!!! Even last night he wouldn't let me call an ambulance until he felt led to call himself this morning at 6. If he had just kept putting it off he wouldn't have lived!!!!!!!! I asked the Dr if he would pull through & he said they don't like to say. !!!!!!!! So, they told him they will probably do an angiogram tomorrow, but not sure. So, we just have to wait. Please tell everyone to pray for him. I couldn't live without him!!!!!"

Well, last week the heat wouldn't go off. This week the heating is off. There were two space heaters but they weren't quite enough. We had a good morning despite the temperature. I preached this morning part two of "Grace is Teaching, Are You Listening?" from Titus 2:11-12. I've been challenged by what grace is teaching as I studied and preached on this passage. Thank you for praying for God's enablement and blessing upon our ministry today.

Benson helped me put out flyers this morning for over an hour. We put out around 200 in that time. We prayed before we left for some opportunities to chat with folks along the way. The Lord gave us a couple distinct divine appointments. It's fun to see the kids have a desire to serve the Lord. 

We have been praying much about what to do with our vacation plans and no car. It would be easy to rent a car if we had two children. However, we have 6. To rent a vehicle our size would have cost about twice as much as renting two smaller vehicles. Last night I was able to contact the owner of the chalet that we have rented and she kindly switched our reservation to the following week. So, at least we have one more week in which the car may be repaired. We may still have to rent. But, I am very thankful for God opening this door. Thank you for praying with us about this need. Please continue to pray for God's provision for the vehicle.

I was able to put flyers out again yesterday. I think we are close to having 1500 of the new flyers out into our community. I was praying this morning that God would use each one of them and would appreciate your prayer for the same. I handed one to a lady yesterday as she put items in her recycle bin. I said, "I hope I'm not handing you something to go into that." (I have had people recycle them in front of me before.) She kindly took it and as far as I know didn't recycle it right away. :)

I was able to get out and do flyers again this afternoon. The Lord gave me two divine appointments with friends of mine within the community. Please pray expecially for one who has a very Biblical name. His initials are S.P and has the same name as a prominent Apostle. He turned 34 today but doesn't have anyone to celebrate with. I had a great chat with him. Please pray that he would have the courage to visit our church. I told him if nothing else his visit would be an encouragement to me and that we'd love to see him stop in at least one time. I benefited from listening to Pastor Paul Chappell as I was out walking. God's good. Thank you for praying for us, our church and our community.

We started our service last night with two teenagers and our family. God had given us a great morning. But I admit that as we were singing the first hymn I was having to encourage myself in what the Lord has called us to do. At about 10 past 6:00, in walked 4 men. One is regularly late because of his meal schedule but generally comes. Another man with him was a first time visitor. Two other men come occasionally. But,they all came in at about the same time. I got a bit choked up thanking the Lord for sending some encouragement just when we needed it.By the way, we have had first time visitors or "nearly" first time visitors every Sunday for the past three Sundays.

I put out flyers this morning for about two hours. I had a good chat with a man who attended our ministry regularly in the first year we were here. Please pray that his family will find Christ. I also witnessed briefly to two other men. God is working. Please keep praying.

I phoned the mechanic this morning because it is important to us to have our car back by this weekend for a family vacation. However, it seems that he may not be able to have the car back to us this week. We will have been without a vehicle for 4 weeks this Wednesday. :) I'm sure the Lord has a plan. Please pray that we will know His mind and that He will help our mechanic to repair our vehicle.

I'm glad that God has us start the week in his house. We enjoyed meeting together this morning at 9:40 for prayer before church. We had good services. I preached this morning on, "Grace is Teaching, Are you listening?" from Titus 2:11-12. I preached part one this morning and Lord willing will teach part two next week. We looked at what we need to discard in obedience to grace. Thank you for praying for our services. 

Kay Lee's orthodontist appointment went very well. It's hard to believe that they can put on a complete set of braces in 25 minutes. She chose a light blue rubber band. I told her that I wish I had some mouth jewelry! Thank you for praying.

I finished studying for my Thursday Bible study on Revelation and was going to go do flyers until I looked outside. The trees were moving quite vigorously which made me check my weather apps. There I found that we have winds gusting into the mid fifties. I think I'll just keep studying. :) Thankfully, I was able to get out yesterday morning and get a couple neighborhoods done. 

There are some exciting opportunities coming up for which we would appreciate your prayers. Bernard, Benson, Logan and I are going to a men's retreat in Ireland the end of next month, 31 March - 2 April. We're excited that God has opened that door. Immediately after we get back, we are hosting a family conference  with Pastor David O'Gorman. The dates for that are the 5-7 of April. His wife, Valerie, will be doing our ladies' meeting on the 4th. And on the 5th we will also be hosting a fellowship meeting.

Vehicle update: The vehicle is still at the garage. I believe that he has been able to find the parts and is going to attempt to get this sorted in the next several days. So, Lord willing we will have our vehicle back in the near future. Thanks for praying.

Kay Lee prayer request: God has provided for Kay Lee to be approved to get braces. They will be installed (?) tomorrow. I know she would like for you to pray her as she adjusts to them.

Today is the second Sunday of the month and our busiest Lord's day. We have our Trust (assisted living facility) service this afternoon. We are short on teens today as a few of them are ill. But, we will head up there with the one teen who is well and trust God will give us a good service. Again I am thankful that we live close to our church and The Trust. We are taking our piano with us. No it isn't an upright or a grand, but it is a nice portable full size electronic keyboard. :)

The Lord gave us a good morning. We took the adult SS time to just spend in prayer. We need it. We need God's blessing and power. I've been reminded again that there is nothing possible without God. Please pray with us for God's power. I continued a message I began last Sunday and preached from Hebrews 9 on "Where We Meet with Thee."