This is Lucille Garcia, she is a member of our church and is going to be turning 100 years old on March 4th. She has been a faithful member of our church for many years. I enjoy getting to visit with her early on Sunday mornings before most folks arrive. She gets a ride from one of our Sunday school teachers and is usually there an hour ahead of time. I thank God for the opportunity to pastor someone who has seen an entire century pass by on this earth.

This past Sunday we had a good crowd in attendance with several visitors. We also had a good family join our church membership roll. We are always thankful to see that a new family has come on board to help us reach this city for Christ. I believe our church is a big family in itself, but it is so good because it is composed of so many good families. Thank God for families!

We also had one saved in junior church on Sunday morning and they made a profession of faith in Christ. We had a decent group on Sunday night as we enjoyed a potluck dinner after the service along with some great fellowship with some of our people. God truly has blessed our church. Now, we are gearing ourselves up for a new month and for our Bible conference that is just a few weeks away. I am excited about having Dr. Bob Gray 2nd here for our conference. It should be a great time.

We had our Valentine Banquet this past Friday night and everyone who attended had great fun. We have great food served with lots of fellowship and then we played some adult games. One thing we have discovered is that adults like games just as much as kids, maybe more! Below we played a game where they had to get the cookie into their mouth from their forehead without using their hands. One of the contestants discovered a new way to do this, which was by jumping up and catching it into his mouth. Believe it or not, he actually won. On Sunday we had some decent weather for once and decent crowds. There was a visiting family that recently move here from Georgia and we also had one profession of faith made with a baptism. Praise God for soul winning, which helps bring the converts down the aisles of Sunday. I believe this will be the greatest year that we have ever had at Lincoln baptist Church. Come join us for the ride, it will be the most fun you have ever had.

We had a wonderful time out soul winning tonight, getting to see 19 precious souls trust Christ as their Saviour. It was a great privilege to have these three gentleman come all the way from Red Cloud, Nebraska to go with us. Pictured next to me is Brad, and his two friends Kenny and Keller. Brad has some relatives that live in Lincoln. He visited our church a few weeks back when he was in town for the weekend. He heard about our soul winning night and bus and wanted to come out and go with us. They drove 2 1/2 hours to come soul winning with us tonight. I believe they truly enjoy themselves as we went and came back on the bus rejoicing. Thank God for soul winning and the blessed Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Last night I really enjoyed listening to our Sons of Grace Quartet sing "There is a Fountain." It is an old time classic song, but it is one of my favorites. I could never get tired of hearing it. I then got up and preached out of Acts chapter 2 about how we need to spend time daily in prayer, Bible reading, and out soul winning. The altars were full at the invitation. We had good services in the morning too with two getting saved and following the Lord in believer's baptism.

Our theme this year is "Back to the Basics" and I am really enjoying it. I am teaching our doctrinal statement on Wednesday nights and many have been coming to hear the teaching on what we believe. I believe it is important for people to know what we believe and why we believe it. Our theme is based on an old time school setting and we will be linking everything we do this year back to that theme. This concept will start with our Bible conference on March 10th and 11th when we have Dr. Bob Gray the 2nd here to preach from the Longview Baptist Temple in Longview, Texas. In case you didn't catch the last blog I posted, we will be calling our Bible conference "Old School." May God bless you and we will see you on the soul winning trail.

Lincoln Baptist Church will be hosting a Bible conference on March 10th and 11th this year. We are excited to announce our guest speaker as Dr. Bob Gray II from Longview, Texas. Dr. Gray is the pastor of Longview Baptist Temple and the Chancellor of Texas Independent Baptist Seminary and Schools. We are delighted to have him as our guest speaker this year and hope you will come out and receive a blessing. Our theme for our conference is "Old School." This goes along with our yearly theme of "Back to the Basics" which plays off of a school setting. Make plans to come out and enjoy some old time preaching.

We had a pretty good Sunday overall, despite the subzero weather we were battling. It was -2 when the bus was started this morning. However, we had 117 in Sunday school which isn't bad considering how cold it was in the morning. I had 19 in my "Home Builders" class, which was a good day for us. I truly believe that God has richly blessed us despite all the obstacles the weather has thrown at us this winter.

We had the altars full at the invitation time on Sunday morning and there were three public professions of faith in Christ made. Dominic Mbajk (pictured) who is from Sudan, Africa decided to follow the Lord in believer's baptism on this chilly morning. There are still churches that get people saved and baptize their converts afterwards, and I am glad Lincoln Baptist Church is one of them.

God blessed our Sunday night service as well, with many coming forward at the invitation time to make decisions. I preached a message called "They Saw" where I preached on all the dangers of television and the internet. I directed it to thinking about what goes into the eye gate of not only ourselves, but our whole family. I encouraged folks to monitor the kind of programs they are allowing to be watched and to equip their computers, tablets, and smart phones with filters. These are difficult days with so much indecency abounding everywhere we look, therefore, we need to guard the eyes of our household as much as we can.

I am looking forward to this coming Wednesday night when I will be pushing ahead with our "Back to the Basics" theme. I am teaching more on the local church, by addressing what "Separation of Church and State" truly means. Thank God for His local church and for our Saviour which paid for it.