| Dear
Friends, |
October
2004 |
It is definitely a war that
we’re in as the last 60 days have well illustrated.
I hadn’t planned on
getting another letter out so soon but I thought it was urgent to get
the information about October 8, found in the Letter From A Friend, to
you as soon as possible. I hope you will read it and act effectively.
Meetings
The meetings have been going
really well. We have had some tremendous services. In one church a young
female college student who was an atheist came to the service. I didn’t
know she was such but that night I mocked the foolish things that atheists
and evolutionists believe. She laughed with the rest of them and left
asking her friend about Jesus Christ and salvation.
In August I taught at the
Pastors’ School at Rick Sowell’s church in Toledo, Ohio. Last
year the school was held at Rick DeMichele’s church in Boise, Idaho.
I cannot tell you how great the spirit was there! Pastors were blessed
and not brow-beat. No one looked down on anyone else. I had pastor after
pastor tell me the meeting was such a genuine blessing. The meeting rotates
every-other-year between Boise and Toledo. Next year it will be August
23 - 26 in Boise. I would highly recommend it to any Bible believing preacher.
(We all get together and “share” and then we rip our shirts
off and “bond.” Nope!)
We are finished with New England
and are now headed into the Tennessee / Kentucky /Ohio area for the rest
of the year.
Schedule change: Oct. 24-
27 - Gospel Light BC - Cookville, TN, 931-646-7137
Books & Tapes
The third edition of An Understandable
History of the Bible is at the printer. This edition has two new chapters
plus expanded information about the NIV, NASV, NKJV and New Scofield.
I don’t know the price yet but you can call 1-800-311-1823 to order
it.
I won’t know until the
Understandable History is done as to whether there will be enough money
left to print Fight on! We had a gracious gift given towards its printing
but we’ve yet to see if it was enough.
My publishing company, DayStar
Publishing, has just finished printing a reformatted edition of Jim White’s
book, Life’s Great Moments and Other Reasons I Considered Joining
the French Foreign Legion. It is one of the funniest books I’ve
ever read. If you want one call the 800 number above and order it.
Before I get back to the other
four books I’m working on, I’ve decided to jam in two other
smaller, but important, projects. I won’t tell you what they are
until they’re completed but I find them pretty exciting and I think
you’ll like them.
The Bus & Truck
The bus & truck have both
been repaired and are back on the road. We have GMAC insurance. I don’t
know what your experience with car insurance companies has been but GMAC
has been absolutely unbelievable! They didn’t hesitate to get our
vehicles into the shop. They paid the body shop promptly. Every single
person we’ve talked to from this company has been both courteous
and helpful. After everything was fixed they sent a questionnaire for
us to evaluate their performance and just today I got a phone call from
a representative asking for another evaluation and asking if there was
anyway they should change their procedures to make things easier on us!
(Are these people from this planet?) They have been great!
The bus now has 17,000 miles
on it and the truck, 54,000. (It had 38,000 when we bought it.) The bus
has made traveling and setting up so much easier. Plus, because it has
an air suspension, we don’t feel beat to death when we get where
we’re going.
Family
Jon & Sheila have celebrated
their 1st anniversary.
Nathan & Rose have celebrated
their 2nd . Deborah is over a year old now and walking like a champ.
Last August 12th , Kathy &
I celebrated our 32nd anniversary.
Luke is in Pensacola beating
up Jehovah’s Witlesses and Calvinists with his Bible.
All-in-all we’re all
doing pretty good.
Well, I must go because I
have a passel of other things to get done in a very short time.
God bless you all and thank
you, Thank You, THANK YOU for your prayers. They keep us going!
My entire 2004 itinerary can
be viewed by clicking here...
