Tam Sue's First Sunday

Tam Sue and her family

Little Tam Sue made it to church this Sunday for the first time. As I mentioned recently one of our Karen families had a baby and named it "Tam Sue" after my wife. It was a great honor for us and everyone was to glad to see her come to church today. There had been some sickness and her mother had been having back trouble since the birth and they had not been able to bring her. However, today the entire family was able to come.

Overall we had a fair Sunday with 117 in Sunday school. Considering the fact that many were out sick with the flu and one family even had me take them to the hospital the night before because of sickness it was a good day. God blessed the nursing home services today as well with 3 trusting Christ as their Saviour.

My daughter witnessing to some children on Saturday

A New Grandson

My wife with Nathan at Hospital

This past Thursday night I had a new grandson born. His name is Nathan Allen Painter. It was exciting to see his parents have him in church this morning for his very first Sunday outside of the womb. God blessed our Lord's day with solid attendance in Sunday school of 128. That was good since as many as 24 regulars were missing that normally never miss. We also saw a convert from early in the week named Manny follow the Lord in believer's baptism.

Manny getting baptized

 This past Friday night we had a Valentine party for the adult Sunday schools here at the church. The attendance was good and the participation in the games was excellent. Many people said this was the best party/banquet they have ever attended at our church. God is blessing in a mighty way at our church and the spirit has never been better. Please pray for continual spiritual growth in our people as we continue to win many to Christ...

Looper bowling

Ta and Thao trying to feed teammates blindfolded

Good Folks!

Ivan and Inna

Ivan and his family have been coming to our church since 2012 after my wife met them out soul winning. They are from the Ukraine and just very good folks! Friday he and his boys came out and helped Brother Looper change a tire on the church bus. I am thankful to have good families like this coming to our church. Overall we had a pretty good Sunday with a couple of visitors. Attendance was solid, but no baptisms today. Feel free to look at a few other pictures from our Sunday.

Playing game on bus

They made matching skirts

Another Convert Down the Aisle

This is Hsa Bweh who I led to Christ a week ago. He came to church as my visitor today. He also attended my adult Sunday school class which had very good attendance of nineteen. My class is one of two adult classes and almost always has much less than the auditorium class. I was happy to have Hsa here today and to see him come down the aisle and make a public profession of faith in Christ during the invitation time. God is blessing our Karen ministry as well as our entire church. We had a young married couple come again that came last week and has attended several times over the past several months. Please pray for Hsa to grow in the Lord and for his wife to come to church next week.