May 2007

Dear Brethren,

We bring you greetings once again from the heart of Tennessee. It has been a busy and a hot month. We have not had any rain in quite some time. We did get 10,000 copies of our newspaper sent out this month. We received one response from it. We received a call from a lady in Portland Tennessee who has palsy and therefore she cannot drive nor can she go anywhere without assistance. I sent Danada to pick her up for one of our Sunday services. It took Danada forty minutes to get there. She was a very nice lady, but because of the long drive and her mental state we decided it probably was not very safe to pick her up anymore and travel such a long distance with her. Forty minutes one way is quite a trip to pick someone up for church. She seemed to have some emotional problems. Other than this we have not had any new visitors or responses from the newspaper.

I have started a new job this month to try and supplement our income because of the rising prices of everything. Danada and I were talking the other day about how starting wages at jobs have not increased much over the past ten years, but the price of homes has doubled, gas has tripled and a gallon of milk is $4.00. I am not sure if my new job is going to help me or hurt me (ha,ha). I am working for a real estate company. It is flexible in a lot of ways, but I do not make any money unless I actually sell something. Please pray for us that God will use this to His glory and honor and work it all out.

I gave up fighting with our riding lawn mowers and purchased one from Sears this month. I have an old mower that we used all last year to mow our yard and the mission property, but it just beat it to death and it started falling apart.

Then we had another old mower that was given to us, but it also kept breaking down on me. A few weeks ago I was mowing with it and one of the bearings disintegrated on it. When it did a pulley that was attached to it shot out the

side of the mower and across the lawn. It takes several hours to do the lawn work at the mission without working on the equipment so I figured it was time to get a new one.

We had the privilege of preaching at the Big Creek Baptist church this month in Wayne, West Virginia. We had a great time there and we very much appreciated the good time of fellowship as well as the hospitality that we were shown during our visit. We also preached at the Grace Baptist Church in Science Hill, Kentucky where my father pastors. It was great to have some fellowship with my own family as well as lots of old friends.

We will close for now. Please continue to pray for the work here as we desire to see it grow.

By His Grace,