Updates for May and June 2009

The Outreach at Fayette Prison has been moved to Saturday, June 13. We will be through by 3PM, just in time to make it back for the Worship Service at Rayburn Correctional at 6PM.

This has been moved because Steve and others will be in India on a mission trip. And Mike Monroe has had a detached retinue and will be unable to work as he has for the next couple of weeks. Please be in prayer for Mike and for the Mission Trip.

Please be in prayer for us as we travel to India, this is an area that is very poor and appears to not have anyone from the USA working with them. Pastor Ray has great plans for a 3 day Gospel Meetings, with possible 10,000 people in attendance. We will have a Pastor's Conference for a day. Also working with the orphanage. We will be trying to visit as many of the 50 villages in the area as possible.

If you have a Sunday available, Mike Monroe and John Bonnabell are going to Red Bluff most pretty Sundays and setting up a tent and giving away water, tracts and sharing the Gospel will all that will listen. If you have never done this kind of ministry, it is a blast!

Saturday May 2nd

Things don't always turn out the way we plan, but thankfully we have a father in heaven who causes all things to work out for His good for those who love Him.

OUR plan was to go to the prison in Angie La. for the big worship service and cookout, however the Louisiana prisons were shut down that Friday because of the swine flu scare. We already had purchased 1000 hamburgers and all the "fixins" so we were left wondering what we should do. It didn't take long to decide we would go to the streets of Columbia Ms. and with the Lords blessings (I'm sure He had this planned all along) we went to the public housing in south Columbia off hwy 13. I'm so sorry I cannot remember the name of the community and Steve is not here right now to ask.

We set up our tables, tents and sound equipment on a corner right in the middle of the community. In no time at all people started coming. We cooked hamburgers, sang, had a bubble machine and face painting for the kids and had a great time!

After we ate we had a few people get up and say a word then opened it up to testimonies from the people in the neighborhood. They seemed to love it! Everything went better then expected for us "flying by the seat of our pants" as Steve likes to say.

I had to leave a little early to go check on Hunter who had just had his wisdom teeth out. As I drove out of the community I noticed that those who didn't come over to our corner were sitting out on their porches listening to the music and testimonies. Almost every porch had someone out there listening. God is good !! Hopefully He will allow us another time to go back.

We went to the Dan Stepney Housing complex. Steve just got home.