TUESDAY, 10/13/09
Miss Vivian continues to be on the ventilator. Please continue to pray for her and her family as they go through this time. She has now been in the hospital for 44 days and 43 of those have been spent in the unit. Miss Vivian is a major part of the Friendship family and is greatly missed each Sunday & Wednesday.
Miss Betty Taylor is scheduled to go home from the hospital today as she is doing great. Keep praying for her.
My brother, Eddie, called yesterday afternoon to tell me that the sharing service on Sunday evening at Danville Baptist went very well. Those folks are seemingly even more excited about doing missions than they were before their trip to Guatemala. I appreciate them partnering with GRACE Ministries and I thank Eddie for leading that effort. I pray it is going to be a long term relationship as we have with other churches/ministries. I even hearing that Pastor Jack will join them next year and that would be excellent for numerous reasons.
All sixteen members of the pastors’ conference team have now arrived safely. I wrote yesterday that I assumed Pastor Abel arrived on Sunday night – he did kinda sorta but not exactly. He arrived at the seminary around 6:30AM on Monday morning following a trip to Chimaltenango and three hours in an Antigua hotel. Long story but thank God he is here. The other seven team members arrived safely yesterday afternoon.
The team was treated to a meal in Antigua last night and then had a brief meeting. The conference begins this morning and we had several pastors from El Salvador arrive last night. Those pastors will be joined by pastors from Honduras and Guatemala. Would you pray today that the sessions would bring glory to God and benefit these pastors?
Again, I want to say “thank you” to each person who has given that these pastors might attend this conference. The forces of hell have certainly fought this conference but I believe God is going to show up and show out!
I will post again in the morning to update you on our first day. I pray that you will have a great Tuesday with Jesus.