A Great Week at Home

Karen family visiting church

My wife and Nan Mary

The Strilkivsky's

I have a short break for a few weeks while we are remodeling our church auditorium. I am helping do a large part of the remodeling effort along with two other men in our church. However, after spending most of July from New Mexico to Indiana, we were ready for a little break from travel. This Sunday we had several visitors at church. One family visiting was Ber Wah with his wife Desea Nar and their daughter. They are a Karen family from Burma. What a joy to have new families at church.

Also this weekend the Strilkivsky's wanted to get together with us for some Thai food. So we took them to eat at Blessings Thai Restaurant. Blessings is owned by one of our members named Nan Mary. She is a former Buddhist led to Christ by my wife a few years ago. She is a faithful member of our church who shuts down her restaurant on Sunday's for church and Wednesday nights for Bible study and Thursday night for soul winning. God has blessed her business greatly because of this. So Saturday night we spent the evening with a Ukrainian family from our church eating at a Thai restaurant owned by a lady from our church who is from Burma! God is good folks. We led five folks to Christ this week also. Please pray for Southeast Asia, they are 99% lost over there.  

Two Great Midweek Meetings

Masoka and Peter with Pastor McCurdy

This week I had a meeting rescheduled for the upcoming Wednesday, so I decided that I would stop by Cedar Rapids, IA and take a family to church with me that are from of our church in Lincoln. This family is in the process of moving to Cedar Rapids and part of the family already moved several weeks ago. I knew of the Gospel Light Baptist Church in that area and we already had a connection with a family in that church that use to be members of our church about 9 or 10 years ago. So we got the pastor's number and contacted him. After telling him what we were going to do, he decided to have me preach and present our ministry. It was tremendous blessing to us and we were glad to take Masoka and her son Peter to visit the church. They were made to feel very welcome by everyone there.  

Then we traveled to our Thursday night meeting in Berne, IN at the Faith Baptist Church. Brother Travis Combest is the pastor there and we were made to feel very welcome. I had a chance to give my presentation and preach to his people. It is a fine church. They have a new pastor coming next month as Brother Combest will be moving to Texas. God blessed our stay as we received a tour of the Popcorn Farm the next morning which is where we stayed overnight. It truly was a great week and we ended up having three saved for the week.

Myself with Pastor Combest son

Great Time with Dr. Lovelady

This past weekend I was blessed to be at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is a new church planted about 10 months ago by Dr. Vernon Lovelady the former President of Texas Independent Baptist Seminary. Went door knocking and soul winning for several hours on Saturday. It was a rather difficult neighborhood, but I was blessed enough to lead Tonya to Christ. She had to work this Sunday, but intends to visit the following Sunday with her husband. God blessed the services on Sunday as they were full in the morning. I was able to give my presentation in the morning service and then preached in the Sunday evening service. I want to give a special thanks to Dr. Lovelady for all of their hospitality to us and also the Hopkins family who kept us over the weekend and treated us very well. Please continue to pray for us as we travel to more churches.

Getting Into Dodge

Anthony trusting Christ

The Sober's and my two daughters

That old saying is "Get out of Dodge" referring to Dodge City. This week we were wanting to get into Dodge. We had a great time with Pastor Albert Shrock and the Bible Baptist Church in Dodge City, Kansas. It is a great church with many wonderful folks. I had a wonderful time of fellowship with the pastor and family on Tuesday night. On Wednesday my family and I were able to pass out some tracts and invite a few folks to church.

While out I ran across Anthony who was very concerned about his mother who is in the hospital with an infection. I was able to witness to Anthony and then prayed for him and and his mother. Then Anthony decided to trust Christ as his own personal Saviour. God is good!

That evening I was able to present the Indochina Mission and preached a message called "Three Options." God blessed as I had the pastor come up and run  the invitation. I also want to give a special thanks to the Sober family who took such good care of us while we were there.

Anthony thanking me

Great Time in Kansas and Texas

Three converts in Wichita

We had an opportunity to present the work in the Liberty Baptist Church in Wichita, KS. It is a wonderful church that has Bro. Jason Owens as their pastor. He is the founder of the church.

While out soul winning for several hours I was blessed enough to see five people trust Christ as their Saviour. My wife and I really enjoyed spending time with the pastor and his wife. They are extremely talented musically. The church also voted to take me on for support Sunday night.

Mrs. Owens and my wife

Then we were in Lewisville, Texas at the Iglesia Bautista Fundamental. Pastor Daniel Ortiz is the pastor of this great church. He taught a fantastic study on "The Law" finishing up a series he had been teaching the church. I was honored to be in his church and have the opportunity to present the ministry to his people. I was also happy to have met Tian Cung and his wife that afternoon down the street from the church. They both trusted Christ as their Saviour. The area has a lot of Burmese refugees there and I felt right at home! Please pray for us as we continue our journey....

Tiang and Bawi getting saved