Recapping Trip So Far

We've been on the road now for 7 weeks and have driven 8,500 miles!  We've almost completed this trip and can see the light at the end of the tunnel.  We will be in the current missions conference until Sunday, then starting another Friday the 5th of November.  We have a free Wednesday night on November 3rd, and hopefully we'll be able to attend a church with my newly saved sister.

There isn't that much new to talk about.  This trip has been long but fruitful.  Several churches that we've been in have either already taken us on for support or have promised support in the future.  We'll find out how much our support has increased sometime either tomorrow or Friday.

Erika and Ashley are doing well.  Ashley is a little sick with a cough still.  Erika and I are just tired and looking forward to being back in Mexico in December.

So, as of right now we only have 2 more scheduled meetings before we return to Mexico.  Hopefully, a few more will come through before then, but we do have plans to help Bro. Paul Deem with picking up the Christmas Shoe Boxes of Joy to ship to Mexico.  Afterwards, we will hopefully be able to attend a couple nights of Madison Baptist's revival, and then be on our way to Mexico via a couple meetings in Knoxville.

We're still soaring in the clouds about my sister Angie getting saved.  17 years of prayer!  6 full months of daily, purposed begging of God for the last 6 months.  God can and will!

So we'll keep on keepin' on.  I'll update again when we get our month-end statement.

"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.