How About an Update??

Time's disappearing so fast!  We've been on the go go go the last couple weeks, as usual.  Never a dull moment!  We finished our last Missions Conference for the year last week, and have been in south-east Ohio for a few days.  We celebrated my 33rd birthday right before leaving Knoxville, TN, albeit a belated celebration.  We had a good time, though, just the 3 of us.  We ate at a nice restaurant while on the road to help Directline Ministries, with Bro. Paul Deem.

Last Sunday, we dropped in on a couple churches in Marietta, OH.  Those went well and we hope we'll be able to schedule meetings with them after the new year.  We've also been helping pick up, sort, organize and prepare "Christmas Shoe Boxes of Joy" for shipment.  It's a great blessing to see the generosity of God's people as they get behind the ministry and go the extra mile to help out.

We were originally planning on going home to Madison, AL for the last service of revival, but we just won't be able to make it.  Erika is not doing well with her health, and we would have to travel all day Thursday to get there, come right back where we are on Saturday, and then drive up to my parent's house in north-central Ohio on Monday the 22nd.  It would just be too much.  We hate not making it--it was our last opportunity to see our friends at our home-church before we go back to Mexico for 2 months.  We'll make it back there, though, by early April 2011.

Feel free to check out our Itinerary, by clicking the link below on the right.  I keep it pretty up to date and accurate.

We're still praying and praying for our support to go up substantially by the end of this month.  We can't wait to "cash in" on some promises!  It's always great to see those promises come to fruition, but we love it when we get support that we didn't know or expect was coming!  Hopefully we'll get all of our regular support, some already promised support, and some that we had no idea about on December 1st.  It would be great to be at least 75% before we get back to Mexico in 2 weeks.

It's hard to believe we've been on this last trip for 6 full months.  We'll have been in exactly 50 different churches by the time we cross the border on December 7th.  Probably a dozen of those churches weren't scheduled meetings, and a few of those were just fellowships or campmeetings.  We presented our work in probably about 35 different churches, and several of those have already taken us on, and hopefully a few more will in the near future.  It takes time!

God's been good to us.  We've seen Him continue to answer specific prayers and always provide way above our needs.  Please pray for Erika and her health.  She's wore out and missing her family, and just can't wait to be home!  Neither can I--it hurts to be here when we so want to just get started with our people in Mexico.  It would be awesome if our support came up to 100% by January 1st!

"But until then..." we'll just keep on doing our best.  Thank God for the opportunity!  What a blessing to serve Him!