Our faithful group was present today and the Lord gave us a good day. Thank you for praying for my voice. It wasn't strong but it was sufficient. I thought perhaps we would need to cancel the service tonight but we were able to have it. It was a lovely Sunday here with very mild temperatures and sunshine. God's good. We enjoyed our day.

I trust that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We enjoyed the day as a family. Our house is now decorated for Christmas and we are excited about this busy month of ministry.  I didn't do door to door today as I am recovering from a cold. I'd appreciate your prayers for my voice. I'm preaching tomorrow on, "He Would Not Save Himself" from the Matthew account of the crucifixion. Monday is the church ladies Christmas party. Please pray for Katie as she get's ready for that. Thanks for praying and following along.

I started putting out our carol sing flyer today. I wasn't out long but the Lord gave me one witnessing opportunity. I also spoke with a woman who indicated a desire to visit the church. It seems quite possible that she will come and visit us. Please pray that God will meet her needs as she recently lost a loved one. 

We want to with you all a very Happy Thanksgiving and trust the Lord will give you a great day!

My how the time flies. I feel like we just brought in 2013 and it's about to go out. We are excited about Christmas Eve because we have a Christmas Carol Sing service on that night. It's always a special evening and we're looking forward to it already.

We had good attendance today. It was a blessing to have some back with us who had been away for a little while. I preached this morning on "Soul Prosperity" from John's friend, Gaius, in III John. We're anticipating a fun evening as we have our Children's Choir practice and our study in Acts. Thanks for praying for our ministry.

I forgot to mention that we had a first time visitor on Sunday. The Christian young man that I met at a shop came and visited. He and I had an unusual divine appointment where the rack holding the car mats broke as I was hanging up a set. I don't often ask people if they are believers but the Lord had me ask him. It was a joy to have him visit our service. 

I also forgot to mention that the men's prayer breakfast last Saturday went very well. We had a good group and a good prayer time.

The Lord gave me a good witnessing opportunity yesterday. Thanks for praying for divine appointments.

We just got back from Biggar. It was a lovely drive through the countryside.  We met Ron at the church and he showed us around. Please pray that God will give wisdom to them as they pray about God's intent for that property. They have seen the Lord do some neat things with that property since buying it 18 years ago. If God allowed us to assist in keeping a ministry use of that facility, we would prayerfully consider doing a Sunday afternoon service there. Thank you for praying with us and with them about this. (See pics. below.)

The Lord gave us a great day today. The spirit was good and the attendance was good. I preached this morning on Abraham's conversion in Genesis 15. The transaction took place as Abraham trusted God and God counted it unto him for righteousness. Tonight we had a singspiration and special prayer service. We concluded with communion.

An extra blessing from the Lord was selling our other car this evening. Thank you for praying with us about that.

I was able to finish the rest of Loanhead yesterday afternoon. That does not mean that this flyer is finished. We have other nearby villages that I try to get to. One of those villages is about 30 miles away. Please pray for another missionary and I as we look at a church building in this village this coming week. 

Our service went well last night. We had our faithful group out. We are praying for God to build increase our attendance on Thursday night and trust he will bring others out in His timing. We enjoyed studying Psalm 68. The Covenanters would sing this Psalm as they went into battle. It was the Psalm that the Lord put on my heart for our revival services last Spring.

We are hosting a prayer breakfast tomorrow morning at an Inn about a mile from here. Please pray for God to give us a powerful prayer time. We are looking forward to a great day.

I lost our iPod a while ago and I missed listening to messages while I was putting out flyers. The Lord helped Benson to find it recently and I was able to have that with me today. I listened to two messages preached by Morris Gleiser. One was on prayer and was a refreshing challenge.

The Lord also answered prayer in an encouraging way this morning. I mentioned recently that the Lord helped the cd player to start so that it could close. Well, after listening to that cd for a long time and not knowing how to turn it off, I tried taking it out. That caused the original problem. We tried all the buttons but no joy. I prayed about it this morning and asked the Lord to let the player eject the cd. When I started the car this morning it put it out. (I tried yesterday turning the car on and off and that didn't work.) So, thankfully this will not be a problem again.

I had two good opportunities to tell others about Jesus this morning. One was in the home of a friend of mine. We have been praying for him for quite a while. Another was with a man to whom I had briefly spoken before. The Lord helped me get a lot done. One more morning should complete Loanhead with the newest flyer. It won't be long until I am back in this area with our Christmas Carol sing flyer. So, I'm thankful to have this one nearly out. Thanks for your prayers.