Macedonia Annual Conference

This week we were able to be a part of Macedonia World Baptist Missions Annual Conference. It was a terrific meeting held at Corinth Baptist Church in Loganville, Georgia. We were able to see so many of our missionary friends, supporting Pastors, and hear some excellent preaching. We felt as if each message was directed to us! Thursday night there was a "Changing of the Guard" where Dr. Scott Caudill became the new president for Macedonia. Dr. Don Richards had been the president, but was stepping down after 26 years of faithful service. Both men are such Godly examples to the missionaries of Macedonia and we're so thankful for the influence they've had. We praise the Lord for such a great week!

To Be or Not To Be French...That is the question!

We received a phone call from the French Consulate in Miami this morning. Mrs. Caroline (the lady working on our French Citizenship process) called and told us their is a problem and we cannot be registered for French citizenship. I was told that I must attain an Affidavit of Paternity from the Government of the Virgin Islands if one even exists (which one doesn't exist). There were several other things that we needed and things didn't look good. I had my mother (who speaks French) to call and confirm everything because I had a hard time fully understanding Mrs. Caroline's French accent. Later this afternoon I called Mrs. Caroline and she was so excited on the phone. She said, "Didn't your mother tell you?....You are French already!" Apparently my mother had forgotton that when I was born, she had registered my birth with the French government, and Mrs. Caroline held in her hands my French Birth Certificate! The next step is to send my French Birth Certificate to an office in France to update it and then I can register my family for French citizenship. We praise the Lord who works to accomplish His will in preparing our family in reaching the lost souls of the French West Indies!

Wonderful Folks At Emmanuel Baptist!

We want to thank the wonderful folks at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brunswick, GA. Pastor Johnson has been very gracious to allow us to park our motor home at the church for a week and a half. We have enjoyed dropping in on a couple of services with them and we even had a wonderful time of fellowship when we joined their Sunday school fellowship at a local steak restaurant! Pastor Johnson invited us to present our ministry last night, sing, and allowed me to preach. Thank you so much for the wonderful hospitality!

News and Updates

We have traveled quite a bit in the last 3 weeks and many good things have happened that we would like to share with you.

1. We traveled to Miami, FL to the French Consulate and turned in our paperwork for French citizenship. We had all of the necessary paperwork and it seems as if everything is going through! The government official said, "I am going to register you and send you your 'Levrite de Famille' book." This book is a book proving our French heritage and once we receive this book, we will register the children and I believe we can then apply for French passports.

2. Our laptop computer crashed last Saturday and we lost all of our information. Yes I know this seems bad, but my Heavenly Father stepped in! We took our laptop to Circuit City (on Saturday) and they checked it out and all seemed lost, they couldn't even get it started. I had to buy a new laptop and we began the slow process of reinstalling all of our needed programs. On Sunday we began to ask the Lord to provide the money to pay for the laptop and our love offering that evening was equal to the cost of the new laptop! I took both my old and new laptop back to Circuit City on the following Tuesday (yesterday) to try to see if they could get any of our files from our old laptop's hard drive. We spent a total of 6 1/2 hours at Circuit City and they said there was no hope. However, my Heavenly Father stepped in! When we were about to leave, the technician plugged in our old laptop (which wouldn't even start up before) and everything came on. We were able to transfer ALL of our information and we lost nothing. The total cost of Circuit City's all-day work was $0! They didn't charge us for a thing!

3. Regency Baptist Temple in Jacksonville, FL took us on for support right in the Sunday evening services. We praise the Lord for Pastor Ralph Flowers and Regency Baptist Temple! This makes 6 churches in the past month and a half that have taken us on for monthly support right in the services!!!

All we can say is "Praise to our Heavenly Father"!