Saturday it was a great day as our parish leaders and pastors came together to pray over our city's and parish. It was good to see people from our church and others as we asked Gods forgiveness, favor and blessing on our community.
Sunday was so awesome and we raised a lot of money for the orphanage with the dinners. I speak for Sis Debbie and those who helped in any way, God bless you and thank you from the orphanage,

It has been an incredible Wednesday. Today the morning started crisp with this little cold front. It sure beats the heat. I was going over our lesson for tonight in this new material on the life of Peter. This material is so relevant to today's life. Volunteers are here cutting up all the meat and getting ready for the big missions dinner Sunday. You had better get your ticket there are only about 40 left.
Don't forget to join us (12 local Pastors and our city leaders as we pray on the steps of our court house this Sat at 12 noon). Got to run and go pick up new A.C. unit for our welcome, coffee room. Again we were blessed with 3.5 ton unit for $250.00, WOW.

It's Sunday night and what a day we had. Incredible service. God has remained so faithful to our church. Man, and how many visitors we must of had. As we continue to listen to His voice I know we continue to make a difference.

What a beautiful Saturday it is! It is good to come here on a Saturday when everything is quiet. Yesterday we were so blessed to have the North Lake Pastors here for breakfast. Pastor Doug McCalister ,our Presbyter, always challenges the boundaries at his church and challenges us to do the same for the gospel's sake. Sis Debbie and Ms. Lou cooked up an outstanding breakfast. We had a visitor from a new work beginning in Mandeville. I gave a tour of our Church and they all were so excited to see the transformation God has done in this place. It is a great time to be serving the Lord and seeing our Church continue to move in the direction He has for us.
Today is the Strawberry Festival and it must be one of the best ones yet; the traffic is horrible. I'm looking forward to Sunday. Our team has lined up a great day.

Wow what a day as we take a little break before our Wed. night small groups. Today was filled with running and erands. It's good to just take a few minitues and get a cup of coffee and relax. Tomorrow I will be traveling to the funeral of our Honor Bound Rep's wife who passed away this week. Please keep him in your prayers. His name is Albert Fraley. He said yesterday she was walking in her garden and today she's in the presence of our Lord.

I almost forgot to tell you of four books I'm reading. First is "The Last Christian Generation" by Josh McDowell, next is "Surviving the Anointing" by David Ravenhill, "People of the Presence" by Mary Cummings and finally, "Core Values" by George O. Wood. All of these have been so excellent.

Well, it's late afternoon and I've been on the roof of our 2 story building. We are still repairing and it seems like the work never ends. We had an afternoon staff meeting going over plans. This church has such great people. Well got to go , will do counseling tonight and continue reaching for the Son.

It's a great Tuesday! I got up early. I like to be up when that light fog is just letting the sun in, it seems so peaceful. In my devotions I was reading in Proverbs 11:08 how "the righteous are delivered and it comes on the wicked instead". Proverbs is just so full of wisdom and inspiration.

I met with Mr. Spangler, a Groups Representative who is trying to get the Fellowship of Christian Athletes up and going. You can check them out at www.fca.org.
Last night I spent two and a half hours with an historian for the city of Hammond. Deb and I were going to donate an antique strawberry pint we own to the Strawberry Festival. After all the research we will have to wait till next year to donate it so that we can get accurate information on it's origin. We have been told that it is most likely that the boxes were built here in Hammond or Ponchatoula, but no one has any records nor has anyone ever seen one of the boxes like we have. Just like our Father to put something in our hands that is unique.

Sunday was great as we discovered rusty faith.
Today started real early with morning devotions. Then it was off to the office and I began working on this Sundays message. This week will be a great week and what a line up God has prepared for us. Wed. we begin a new series in our small group on the Life of Peter. The material we wanted to do is so new it was not even in print yet. We will begin that in about 3 months. The weekend of the 19th, I will be with the city leaders as we pray on the court house steps for our city. Friday the pastors from the Northlake Section will meet at our church for breakfast and prayer. Have dedicated this afternoon to working on our complex and helping Sis debbie set up for an incredible evening with our ladies group.