After A Stop in Larned, Great Weekend in Great Bend

Pastor Plato Shepherd

We attended the missions conference at Larned Independent Baptist Church with Pastor Plato Shepherd on Thursday and Friday night. We had a great time giving testimony on Thursday night and showing our video Friday night. Friday nights service really had a good group with the auditorium being full. Pastor Shepherd is a veteran church planter who has started five churches. He started this church in 2015. He has a real pastors heart for small towns in Kansas. They are difficult fields and take time and patience to establish churches in these areas. 

On Saturday we stopped by Riverside Baptist Church in Hutchinson, Kansas and went door knocking with Pastor Richard Haley. I was able to lead one lady to Christ as we were out pounding doors and giving out Gospel tracts. We then moved on to Great Bend, Kansas.

Pastor Ken Gray

We spent Sunday with Pastor Ken Gray and the Heritage Baptist Church in Great Bend, Kansas. Pastor Gray started this church in 2004. I was able to present our  ministry in the morning service and and I preached. They had a great crowd for both Sunday school and the morning service. There was a couple that got saved after the morning service, After lunch we went soul winning for a couple of hours in the afternoon before the evening service.

Gilbert and Julia

I then preached the evening service and God really blessed. The service was almost as full as in was in the morning! By the time the morning started Pastor Gray had one person lined up to get baptized after the evening service. Then by the time the day ended they baptized seven people. Praise God!

I was able to lead five people to Christ and see four of them make a public profession of faith with two following the Lord is believer's baptism. (Gilbert and Julia) Then my wife was able to lead Lacy to Christ and she followed the Lord in believer's baptism too. They have a leak in their baptistry so they go to a lake close to town to baptize. (That is why they do it after the evening service.) 

Lacy after getting baptized!

The excitement level was very high among the church after this baptismal service. In fact five were baptized at the lake and then a storm came up so they baptized the final two at the swimming pool at our hotel. The church was super excited. We were excited as well and especially when the pastor conducted an impromptu business meeting and voted to take us on for support starting in September! Praise the Lord on an absolutely great day in Great Bend, Kansas!

Gilbert getting baptized at lake!

Julia getting baptized at lake!