This is Elisa Blackfish who got baptized this past Sunday morning. We had a bit of a low day, I fully believe it had a lot to do with the city marathon. Many people can't get through to get to our church one Sunday a year because the marathon takes the utmost importance in our city. It is always the first Sunday in May every year. It is even bigger than God is in our city, what a shame. Many churches in our area cancel their morning services because people can't get to their church. I refuse to do that, but it is ridiculous that half of an entire city the size of Lincoln has to be shut down because of a marathon.

The last two weeks have been good ones over all. We had a great finish to our campaign on the 29th of April. We even had Dr. Bowen our missionary to Thailand with us that Sunday morning. It was a great honor to have one of my old mentors visiting us. Dr. Bowen use to be one of my instructors at Texas Baptist College and the missions director at our church in Longview. That weekend we had four baptized and finished the month with 282 saved. It was a record month. Then the first Sunday in May we had a record offering. Praise God for all the records!