Doug and Pat Alger

I talked with Doug and Pat Alger today and they are loving the weather in Missouri. She told me they attended First Baptist Church of Mountain Grove. Pat said that they felt very welcome and that though they have other churches they will visit, they felt very welcome. We need to pray that God will guide them to the church where He wants them to serve. If you would like their new address, please contact Becky at church.
Pastor

RAN OUT OF BUNS!

What a wonderful night of fellowship and bible study. We had 49 people come for fellowship and we ran out of hamburger buns! Praise God. Rick showed us how to put a burger on a hot dog bun. What a great time we have sharing food together and meeting new people. Kim took the small children, 10 and Matt took the older kids, 8. Charley once again did a great job on the bible study, finishing the 5th chapter of Matthew. The group had good questions and the interaction heard some great stories of God working in peoples lives. The focus of the Bible study was learning that we even have to love the unlovable.

I announced that next week I will teach the New Believers class starting at 6:30 on Wednesday. We have so many new believers and the questions we are getting tell us its time to start going deeper with some new believers. I can't wait, I love the journey of taking someone through the seven beginning steps. Next week we will begin with "Be sure of Your Salvation". God continues to bless us and the praises tonight were more than the prayer requests. We prayed for our country, our military, our snow birds and our immediate family needs.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY,

God is not a four season God.

I was reminded this last Sunday that God is not a snowbird and does not stop working because its summer. Sunday in our 2nd service we had to bring in folding chairs. God is so good and right in the middle of summer, with temperatures around 112, He fills his house. We all had a good laugh last night at our evening Bible Study talking about the things people say about summer in Mesquite and how some of the churches cancel everything do to the fact that some leave for the summer. We have a number of people traveling and 6 or 7 snowbird couples but God continues to bring new people to the community and therefore we are meeting new couples nearly every weekend. Sunday we Baptized 4 children, two from our VBS and two were grandchildren of a member who lost her husband last week. The children wanted to be baptized where she could be there. It made for an emotional time and a wonderful service. We observed the Lord's supper at both services. I never "tag" the Lord's supper on the beginning or end of a service and this time was no exception. I devoted the entire service to explanation of what it means and how to prepare to observe it. At the end of the service, a 93 year old woman who has been attending with her daughter came to me at the back door and said "In all my years of going to church I have never had the Lord's Supper explained to me like you did today, thank you and she gave me a kiss on the cheek" What a great feeling. Words of encouragement come sometimes at the most unexpected times.