Pastor's Blog

“Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.” (Psalm 19:14 KJV)

Today’s Bible reading: Genesis 35-37

No new updates on those who have been on our recent prayer lists so we are going with the “no news is good news” theory.

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, there are two funeral services tomorrow.  The service for Gerald Brannan will take place from First Baptist Church of Grand Bay at noon.  Preceded by two hours of visitation with the family.

The service for Lexie Whitehurst’s mother, Lisa, will take place at 4:00PM from the Azalea City Funeral Home in Mobile.  Preceded by one hour of visitation with the family.

The Friendship family will be feeding the Brannan family following the service.  I have not been able to talk to Carol Lucky as this point.  However, I do know that we need to feed seventy five family members.  We will be asking folks to sign up to help during the two morning services today.  The food will need to be in our fellowship hall no later than 11:30AM tomorrow.  I have no doubt that the Friendship family will come through as they always have so “thank you” in advance.

Regular schedule this morning and tonight.  Supposed to be a beautiful day today!  I pray that the members of the Friendship family are faithful!

A couple of folks have asked about our flights from Friday.  Long story short – we left the mission house at 5:15AM for a 9:09AM flight.  One hour drive and almost three hours in the airport.  Have done it a million times.  Stopped by Casa Alleluya to pick up Lee Sugiyama who was on the same flight.  I have been traveling to Guatemala since 1998 and have never seen traffic like we saw on Friday morning.  I thought we were in Manila.  We got to the airport at 8:40AM and the ticket counter had closed at 8:09AM.  I had already called Delta on the way and had been told there were no seats on the afternoon flight or the Saturday morning flight.

The kind lady behind the counter dialed reservations and handed me the phone.  Another kind lady on the phone booked Lisa, Lee and me on the afternoon flight.  I was aggravated at myself for being late.  We could not check luggage until 11:00AM for the afternoon flight.  We did and then proceeded through security.  As I stepped out into the concourse after security, I noticed a really long line at the Delta gate counter.  My first thought was, “they have cancelled the flight due to weather issues in Atlanta!”  I walked down and asked one of the passengers why the line?  He said, “they cancelled the flight!”  Then he said, “not this flight but the one from this morning due to mechanical problems!”  Are you serious!  I would later learn that only ten folks from that morning flight got rebooked on the afternoon flight as the rest had to wait until Saturday or later.  So, being late actually was a blessing!  Is Good good or what?

I came home expecting to coach Upward at 8:00AM (which I did) and then call games from 11:00AM until 4:00PM.  Soy is now over the Upward program and he fired me!  Did his best Donald Trump impersonation!  Are you serious?  Soy cannot call a hog and he fired me from officiating?  Wow!  However, it allowed me to spend the day working on mission trip stuff and studying.  Good day for me.

This entry has been way too long.  I apologize.

I pray that you will have a great Sunday with Jesus.  Go to church!