Baptism's Upon Baptism's at LBC

This is Hazgail (pronounced Ezekiel) Komi from Sudan, Africa. He was one of my converts from a few Thursday nights ago. He and his wife were two of four baptisms Sunday morning. The overall Sunday morning crowd was a little down with only 113 people in attendance. However, we had a great week overall. We had a good crowd of 52 last Wednesday night with two being saved and one baptized. Also, this past Sunday night we had 62 and one saved and baptized. God has blessed us greatly this year, by allowing us to baptize 77 people so far this year.

The spirit at every service was great this past week, especially Sunday morning, while I preached the message "Five Ways to Open the Windows of Heaven." Can you guess one of the ways? You guessed it, baptism! The windows of Heaven open when someone gets baptized!

God has been blessing our soul winning attendance also, with a new record this past Thursday of 29 soul winners out soul winning. God has given us a vision to reach our community that He has placed us in. In our neighborhood that includes people from every corner of the globe as our city is the 14th largest refugee resettlement area in the United States. I realize that God loves these refugees and they also have great value. In our church we have on a bad Sunday at least ten different languages that could be spoken. Last Thursday night among our soul winners we had the ability to speak not only English, but Spanish, Arabic, French, Dinka, and Swahili. Gotta love a soul winning church!

Another Great Sunday!

This is Christy Chism, one of three people who got baptized on Sunday. My wife had been inviting Christy for months and today she finally came. Christy along with Xavier (who also got baptized) both work at Kentucky Fried Chicken. My wife and I regularly eat at the KFC that these folks work at. My wife decided about 4 months ago that she wanted to win the whole store to Christ, so she began praying in that direction. Her and I together have had about 7 saved as a result and 3 of them have been baptized. The other Briley, has become a regular attender! We have had about 8 employees total visit church from the store, including a shift manager. The biggest problem we run into is that they are often scheduled to work during church times. However, we aren't going to stop working to this end. Over all we had 114 Sunday morning and 51 Sunday night! Thank God for a soul winning Baptist church!

Young Fundamentalist

July 11th, started our "Young Fundamentalist" for the teens before Sunday night church. Brother Jonathan is preaching messages geared toward teen agers each week. We had that evening 55 for church service with one adult getting saved and baptized! That morning saw us having 114 with 5 adults following the Lord in baptism. There was a great response to the message entitled, "When God Becomes Your Enemy." Praise God for His precious Word!

"I Pledge My Life to America"

The children's choir sings a patriotic song during Sunday night's service. We had a smaller than usually crowd for a normal Sunday night service, but an excellent spirit. I preached the message, "Does God Still Love America?" On Sunday morning we stayed over 100 with 104 in Sunday school, although attendance was down, there was a good spirit. We had 2 baptized, with 6 baptized for the week. Praise God for a nation that is free!

We had an absolutely great conference with Dr. Dean Miller. We enjoyed having both he and his wife here. They were a great blessing. We had 64 of our own church people in attendance Monday night and 63 on Tuesday night. It was just great! We saw 2 baptized on Tuesday night and had 2 more baptized on Wednesday night. That made for a total of 9 baptized while Dr. Miller was here. Two of them were church members that were doubting their salvation! Praise God for powerful preaching combined with a convicting Holy Spirit presence!