ReUnion in Tennessee

Pastor John Johnson and the River Lake Baptist Church had a great missions conference this past week. While there it was great to see Preacher (Dr. Gray Sr.). He was the guest speaker for the conference. I haven't seen him for a couple of years and it was like old times again. I was ordained by him through the authority of the Longview Baptist Temple on July 4th, 2001. We enjoyed getting to hear him preach and having fellowship with him during the conference. 

On Sunday his cell phone went off while he was preaching, so my wife said, "You owe us a pizza." (It is an old joke from years ago that if someone's phone went off during preaching they owed him a pizza.) He was a great sport about it and bought pizza for everybody on Tuesday night after the service, even though nobody was really thinking that he needed to do that. 

This is Data Patel who my wife led to Christ on Thursday morning while we were checking out of the hotel. She is from India and her and her husband own the hotel. I called Pastor Johnson and gave him her information. By that afternoon the pastor called me back and said he and his wife went by the hotel to follow up. Pastor Johnson told me that when they went by the husband was there and said that his wife had told him that she had trust Christ as her Saviour that morning. Praise God she is not ashamed! Pastor Johnson told me that the husband has an interest to learn more about Christianity. They also have an 18 year daughter who is supposed to ride the bus to church this coming Sunday! Please pray for the husband and the daughter to trust Christ as their Saviour as well. We had 7 saved total for the conference while we were there. 

We flew back from California last Wednesday just in time to catch the Bible study and got to be home for one day before heading to Tennessee. We attended soul winning night at our church and I went soul winning with Say Nay Moo. While we were out we met Sai Lwin and his wife Neng Mon. They are Shan from Burma. They have lived here two years. They are Buddhist but had been schooled in Catholic schools. They said they were looking for a sign to show them the right way to God. I told them God sent them a sign. They wanted to know the sign.... I told them that God sent an America to come knock on their door to show them the Scriptures so they might know how to be saved! They listened to the presentation very carefully as my partner translated into Burmese. In the end they made a decision to accept Christ as their Saviour acknowledging that Buddha can't do anything for them. Praise God for His wonderful grace!