Here is Brother Calvin Scott working on our bus this past weekend. He got saved and baptized in our church in April of 2011. It is a great blessing to have someone in our church that can keep our vehicles up and running in order for us to keep doing the Lord's work! Somebody say AMEN!

Tuesday afternoon I found myself out at Quarry Oaks Golf Course. My son Jonathan works there and he wanted his mother and I to come out and play 18 holes with him after he got off work. I took the afternoon off and golfing we went. It was the first time I had golfed at that course and I must say it is probably the best course I have ever played at. I love to golf, but unfortunately only get to play about 5 or 6 times a summer. God was good to us this past weekend as we wrapped up ten years at Lincoln Baptist Church. Finishing the ten years with officially 11,809 people saved, 1,644 public professions of faith being made, and 953 following the Lord in believer's baptism by Sunday's close. Praise God for His wonderful blessings of the past and for the new ones coming in the future!

Today was the ten year anniversary of our church. It was on June 2, 2002 that I came here and started Lincoln Baptist Church. It has been a long ten years in many ways and in other ways a very fast ten years. I praise God for all the souls we have been able to reach and lives we have been able to help. God has been gracious enough to use me and our church. We had 116 today and 3 public professions of faith made with 1 following the Lord in believer's baptism. (Pictured at top) I started a new adult Sunday school class today on the Home and Family. We had 18 in the class which was very exciting. I was also given some very nice gifts from our people today including a very generous love offering. In fact it was the largest love offering our church has ever given a man of God. I want to thank everyone who contributed to this and I want to also say that I could not have accomplished anything without your help. It starts with Jesus, but then the followers are also very important, I thank God for everyone of you.

We had a great time at our church picnic. With about 60 of our folks coming out and all enjoying the food and fellowship. I was even able to lead one to Christ when I wasn't laboring over a flaming grill. We also had a Bocce Ball tournament, of course my team won! It was a fun game and actually the first time that any of us on our team had played that game. My wife loaded up her team with the Bocce Ball pros, but it wasn't enough. Ha! Thanks everyone for coming out and let's have a great anniversary Sunday this next Sunday. Our church will be ten years old!

Above are the scenes of the this past weekend at our church. We had Dr. Steve Johnson here with us preaching Sunday morning and Sunday night. We were very excited about having him. In his Sunday night sermon we caught a picture of him bearing his cross as he preached. We had 122 in Sunday school on Sunday morning and 54 back on Sunday night. We had 97 souls saved for the week and 6 public professions made on Sunday with 5 following the Lord in believer's baptism. Praise God for His great blessings.

The contest winners from our campaign at the Nebraska Baseball game last Friday night. We had a good time with the Gaiser family, Blaise, and my daughter Sarah.

John getting baptized last Sunday morning. He was pretty excited about it!
We had a good Sunday overall with two following the Lord in believer's baptism!

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!