This is me pictured with our missionary guest for our missions conference. The theme was the same as our Sunday school campaign "Building and Battling." To the (your) left of me is Missionary Charlie Schildnecht (Thailand) and on the right is Missionary Sam Owen (Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation). Bro. Owen was our main speaker for the conference. We had some great crowds each night and took in a good number of Faith Promise Commitment cards. We finished our campaign Sunday by meeting all of our five goals. We had 57 saved for the week and 5 baptized! Then Monday and Tuesday night we had the bulk of our conference as Bro. Charlie arrived with his sweet family. On Tuesday morning we loaded up and went soul winning. We had 19 soul winners out and produce 18 salvations in one hour! Praise God for soul winning and soul winning missionaries. We will no longer have any missionaries to our church that we don't make go soul winning. Amen and Amen.

The picture to the far right is of Lorenzo Rodriguez. He is a Spanish man that I met a couple of Thursday nights ago and was able to lead to Christ. He is currently fighting a battle for his life with cancer, but praise God he was able to come this Sunday and get baptized. The other picture is our teen singing group singing a special on Sunday night with Brother Jager our song leader. They did an excellent job singing that night. Overall we missed two of our five goals for our campaign, but it was still a great Sunday. There were several return visitors and some new visitors. In fact one visiting family that is looking for a good Baptist church came back Sunday night too. Praise God for Jesus Christ and all that he did for us!

This is a picture of our teen singing group practicing on Sunday evening. These kids do a great job singing and being faithful to services, working in the bus ministry and going soul winning on Thursday nights. We had a great Sunday overall meeting 4 of our 5 campaign goals. We also had 3 baptized on Sunday morning. We had a great afternoon service at the nursing home with 3 trusting Christ as their personal Saviour.

This is Errin Mahoney pictured with my wife. She got saved last Thursday and baptized today. We were very happy to have her here today and to have the honor of seeing her follow the Lord in Scriptural baptism. Over all we had a good Sunday meeting four of our five campaign goals. We had 129 in Sunday school, 31 saved for the week, with 2 following the Lord in Baptism. We also had $147.53 given toward Faith Promise Missions. Praise God for His marvelous workings!

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!