Back to Reality

We had great time at 2 different camp-meetings last week.  We made several excellent contacts and ran into some old friends.  We were greatly encouraged and pumped back up!  We really needed a week of good preaching and fellowship.  It was so nice to soak up such awesome preaching and singing and taking time to fellowship with other preachers and laymen.  God worked in our lives and took care of us, even if we've been too tired to really appreciate it all yet!

We've been in South Carolina all day today (Sunday, August 8th).  We came here because I had a meeting booked over here, but on the way the Pastor called and cancelled.  I had reserved a prophets chamber at a great church in the area, and after prayer, we decided to keep on going and to trust God.  No meetings, just simple faith.  So, we got to the prophets chamber late on Saturday evening and prepared for Sunday.  Sunday morning we had a great time in what I believe to be one of the best churches we've visited in the last year.  The missions Pastor took us out to eat afterwards to a Mexican place and we had a great time.  We got some rest in the afternoon and went to a different church that the missions pastor from the morning recommended to us to drop in on.  The time was alright and we enjoyed ourselves.

Tomorrow we're headed back.  I need to make several calls tomorrow at lunch, while driving back home (about a 6 hour drive).  I'm looking forward to booking meetings in the next couple days with pastors that I've met this last week, and as well as thru some follow-ups I have to make.

We're out of prayer cards.  I gave the pictures and information to a friend of mine a month ago and he told me 2 weeks, but we still don't have the finished product.  Prayerfully, he'll be able to finish them and I can get them printed and delivered by Wednesday.  It will cost us extra money, but we don't have a choice.

Macintosh Blues

So I finally took everyone in the world's advice and bought a Macintosh laptop.  The problem is that I've never known anything other than a PC environment, for 20 years exactly.  I'm having serious adaptation issues; especially with word-processing and email clients.  The mouse/track pad is also more than somewhat aggravating.  I even bought a Micro$oft Office for Mac package to help in the weaning process, but it hasn't been much consolation.  The good things about this Mac is that it doesn't lock up, doesn't bog down, and does what I want when I want.  I can clutter the desktop, clean it up, open as many frivolous programs as I want and it doesn't even blink.  The internet is super fast and doesn't hassle me as I fly in and around several different sites at once.

On a sad note, our support didn't come in as I thought it would this month.  4 supporting churches didn't send anything, and 1 sent less than normal.  When we only have 15 supporting churches, it impacted our income dramatically.

I have several decisions to make regarding a couple meetings.  Also, I need wisdom about where to book meetings next, and for when.  Only God knows what we should do and we've been praying He would let us know what exactly that is.

Perhaps we'll go to a campmeeting starting tomorrow--it would be good to get pumped up and out of the "office" for the weekend.  Perhaps it will be beneficial in planning what avenue to take next.  I was so hoping/praying that our support would indicate which direction we need to take, and perhaps this is the answer--to keep booking and planning meetings, and using the opportunity tomorrow to make some good contacts.