This is Nancy Bevin who was one of two baptisms this past Sunday. I was able to lead Nancy to Christ on Saturday. We had a great Sunday hitting all five of our campaign goals. We had 132 in Sunday school, 33 saved, 2 baptized, 30 Thursday night soul winners, and $111.00 in Faith Promise giving. We also had 61 on Sunday night! I praise God for all that he did this past weekend and week. We had to work hard for our salvation goal of having 25 saved every week, since Thursday night was rainy, it made it tough. We only had 13 saved that night. On Saturday morning follow-up, I challenged all the teachers to get some people saved while they were out. They came back at noontime with 19 converts! We topped the whole weekend off by leading a lady to Christ in the back parking lot after church. Praise God for our faithful workers, I could not do all of this without their help!

Building and Battling

We started our campaign this last Thursday night, seeing what we can do in 52 days. Nehemiah built an entire wall around Jerusalem in 52 days, so we are going to spend the next 52 days building and battling, just like Nehemiah. Our first Sunday we saw 129 in Sunday school and 6 professions of faith and one baptized. We also had 60 in church Sunday night. A special thanks to my wife and Mrs. Lyn Painter, Mrs. Fauth, Mrs. Zlomke, and Miss Erika for the great decorations.

This is Justin Rashidi and his two oldest children. They are able to watch Mrs. Rashidi get baptized this morning. Now they are all members of the household of faith! Mrs. Rashidi had been previously saved, but not baptized in a independent Baptist church. Overall we had a good Sunday even though a lot of people were missing because of the holiday weekend. We had 111 with three following the Lord in believer's baptism. We had 43 on Sunday night to hear me preach "America and the Sin of Homosexuality." I am excited about our upcoming 52 day Sunday school campaign that starts Thursday night with our church wide soul winning. Praise God for Sunday school campaigns!