"Ministering" in Miami

So it's been a couple weeks since my last post.  So much has happened--we've been travelling and travelling so much.  This has been such a good trip.  Since our last post, we've driven a couple thousand more miles and been in 5 churches.  One of those churches has already taken us on for monthly support, and we were promised from a couple others.  We were even in a Spanish church in Dalton, GA and had a great time.

Most importantly is that my sister Angie has been travelling with us for a week and a half.  At the last meeting of a missions conference we were in on last Sunday night, she accepted Christ as her Savior!  I was the first saved in my family back in 1993, 17 years ago.  Since, everyone in my immediate family has been saved, ending with Angie last night.  Erika and I became more burdened for her last Spring and began praying earnestly for her everyday, begging God to work in her heart.  Even up until Sunday night, she was adamant about being "okay" and not needing what we called "being saved."  The Holy Spirit convicted her heart, though, and she gloriously received Christ!

We've been so privileged to see God work and save so many people in the last 14 months of deputation, but none was so special as my own sister.  What a blessing!

Our support should be quite a bit up this next month.  We're praying for 75% by Christmas, and it looks like we'll have it.  Well, Erika is praying for 100% before Christmas...so maybe God will look over my lack of faith!

Ashley the Destroyer is talking and making a mess everywhere she goes.  Thankfully, we're in one spot for a few days so she doesn't have to sit in the car seat buckled down tight.

Miami is a beautiful place.  We just arrived this afternoon and started a missions conference that will last until Wednesday night.  Thursday we plan on having a family day at the Everglades, then on to meetings in Riverview, Orlando, and then Tampa before heading up north on October 25th.  What a lovely place, though.  Miami is a great place with a bunch of great people.  We've already enjoyed meeting the great people of Bible Baptist Church of Pembroke Pines, and look forward to "suffering" here a couple days longer in their missions conference.