We were able to serve with Broadview Heights Baptist Church, Pastor Barth and his wife at the Northeast Revival Conference. We are leaving with full hearts and are encouraged in the Lord as to what He has done in our lives. We feel refreshed and excited about His fullness! It has been especially exactly what I have needed.
We just met a wonderful Pastor in Washington, GA and God met with us in a 3 day ‘Homecoming’ revival! The ONLY bad thing about the week was that we didn’t have our trailer. We would have loved being parked at the church to have a little more fellowship with Pastor Chapman and his dear wife! We rescheduled to be back 2011! What a blessing!
Billy made is safely ‘home’ (well, really our home is in the shop, but he made it back to where I am). He had GREAT reports from camp…maybe he’ll update his side so you can read all the details. Even today we have heard from several Pastors that the teens have returned home ‘on fire’ and that God has used them in their churches already!!! Very exciting!
Billy is at Wildwood Christian Retreat this week and God has met with them in last night’s service. Keep praying for them.
What a blessing to have our first meeting in Texas! We have seen God work in a great way among the staff here at Bethany Baptist Church. First of all, they were already on the same ‘page’, but through the revival the Lord, I believe, has knit their hearts together for revival! They began reading some books together that will help them on this pilgrimage . We sure thank the Lord for this meeting with Pastor Aaron Denson. We know that we will have a friend in this Pastor and we are thankful for men who will stand firm on ‘old-fashioned’ standards and truths. What a blessing!
We are coming to the close of our 2 week meeting in Clovis, NM at Westbrook Baptist Church. God has and is doing great things. I have seen the Lord change Billy’s direction in the last 2 weeks. It has not been a normal progression of Revival truths that are ‘typical’ to a meeting, but rather the Lord has directed specifically each evening to meet the need of the people. Very interesting. I am so glad it’s been unconventional. We had a testimony/question time on Sunday evening which, in my opinion, was the pivitol point in the meeting. To hear the testimonies given and the questions that were asked sealed the fact that the people were ‘getting’ it. Sometimes it is fun to sit back and seemingly feel like things aren’t ‘happening’ the way it conventionally happens, but rather watch the Holy Spirit move and work in a deep, unique way. It will be fun to watch (as we have even this last year) God stretch and grow the people at Westbrook!
We saw 4 saved in the Sun AM service today! Praise the Lord…we know He wants to do great things this week! (Westbrook Baptist Church, Clovis, NM, Pastor Furgus Tunnell)
Billy made it in safely! Now, we are getting ready for the hike westward! Our trailer is still not ready, but the plan is to pick it up next Tuesday (cutting it extremely close to make it out to Nebraska)
This past Sunday, at Cleveland Baptist Church (Pastor Kevin Folger) over 20 adults made profession of trusting Christ as their personal Savior! Praise the Lord. Billy was thrilled as well as many church members. Billy’s exact words, “I’ve never seen anything like it”! He preached about 35 minutes or so on the need to be ‘Born Again’ and he said that as soon as the invitation began the adults stepped out! VERY EXCITING! Other adults have told Billy that ‘We will never forget what happened here today”…Praying that work continues. Already, several of them have been visited and we know of a few that are going to attend the discipleship class this coming week.
Billy is currently in Brooklyn, NY then off to West Chester, PA (with our friends The Mawsons) then off to Cleveland, OH to preach for Pastor Kevin Folger while he is out of town. Busy, busy…please pray for him as he travels. Also, pray for the meetings that the Lord would work in a GREAT way! Since he flew, I remained behind. Our trailer is also still being repaired.
