Stormy Michigan

Praise the Lord we are on the final stretch of our travels. It would be difficult to relay to you how quickly the time is passing. Our schedule is pretty intense and it has accelerated our days away. 

All of the ministry opportunities this past week went very well. Last Wednesday night we were in Sauk City, Wisconsin. Thursday morning I spoke in La Salle, Illinois at a Christian school. Katie spoke at two workshop sessions for an area ladies' retreat the following two days. (100 ladies were present at the retreat.) We stayed at my Uncle Rick and Aunt Karen's home. What a joy to catch up with them. We also stayed at our former Pastor's home. Melanae and Katie are very close friends. Pastor Clark and I are too...but not as close as our wives. 

Moving ahead to our current location, Napoleon, Michigan. We are staying at my former youth pastor's home. He is now the head pastor at First Baptist in Napoleon and tonight we have a meeting with their church. This weekend we are at Katie's home church in Fremont, Michigan. Next Wednesday we are at Goodells, Michigan where I used to be an assistant pastor for 3.5 years. That night we will cross the border into Canada and stay at a hotel near Niagara Falls.

We have two specific health prayer requests which we would like you to take to the Lord. Mac has developed a very bad asthmatic cough. We had to phone for an ambulance recently because he was hyperventilating. My back is also very bad. (I never have back problems... but I am turning 50 this year.) Thank you for taking these health needs to the Lord.

If you have any specific prayer requests, please hit reply and let us know how you are doing. We are praying for you,

Pastor Ben

Psalm 100:3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.