Last Sunday, while in Milwaukee, I received a call from my youngest brother informing me that my mother had passed away. After fulfilling my commitments in Chicago I flew back to Boston on Wednesday and traveled to Connecticut on Thursday. My sister and brother-in-law had preceded me, and we were eventually joined by my nephew, my other brother and my daughter. Friday we made an expedition to the primary residences we had lived in as a family, located near Albany, NY and in Berkshire Co. MA. Had the oppty. to tell my adult nephew, who grew up in the Midwest, about his grandfather, who had died prior to his birth.
Saturday morning we met my younger brother and his family for a Memorial service in my mother's local church. My niece played and sang "Songbird" beautifully. My sister and younger brother shared remembrances of our mother to the assembly. Both spoke well. Afterward we formed a line and spoke with extended family, and members of the Woman's Club, P.E.O., and the church, the three primary associations with which my mother was involved.
The family held a private graveside service in which I read some Scripture including Ps. 116:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:7, John 11:25-26 & Ephesians 2:1-10. We then prayed together and entrusted our mother into the hands of God.
In the evening, per my mother's prior request, the whole family went out to eat. We reminisced about the impact she had in our lives. One major legacy for me was her love of reading, which she passed on to me. Most of what i have learned, and much of the pleasure I have experienced in life has come from reading.
As we went our separate ways (we are scattered throughout the country) I wondered if the eleven of us would ever come together again at one time in one place.
Today I fly back to Chicago, pick up my car, and resume my journey, heading tomorrow to MO.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Last weekend I drove up to Milwaukee to visit Jim, Jake Barnett's dad. Jake had fellowshipped with our home group in Cambridge for a season. I continue to marvel at the hospitality of the saints including those, like Jim, whom I had met only once. We had good rapport, counseling and praying together about a number of things. Sunday morning he took me to the home group with whom he gathers. and we experienced a powerful time of worship. A brother David has a wonderful gift in that area. In the past I have taught on the idea of the Holy Spirit as "The Invisible Conductor," as with a symphony orchestra. Each of us has received some gift or talent which, when we respond to the Holy Spirit's leading produces a spiritual harmony that glorifies God. In this case musicians (electric guitar, electric piano, violin, and hand drum) and non-musicians produced a heavenly sonata interspersed with prayer. David saw a picture of me as a bumblebee pollinating flowers that serves as a physical illustration of what God has called me to do spiritually.
Monday returned to Chicago for further fellowship with Lewie and his friend Ricky, a brother from Arkansas. On Tuesday we visited a professor named Trevor who teaches at a local Bible school regarding a book he had written about adoption into God's family. I confess a bias against academics but this gentleman proved remarkably personable, eager to usher the Holy Spirit into his teaching and ministry, and open to other's input. His emphasis on the relational aspects of the NT refreshed all of us.
That evening my friends Tom & Diane joined me with about ten individuals in the discipleship community. We ate together at a big table, encouraged one another in a general discussion and then had conversations with one or two others. Quite a rewarding time.
Wednesday returned to the Boston area, had a meal with my friends Matt & M. T. The latter has aspirations of marriage to a sister in another state. Among other things, I appreciate his sense of humor. i'm serious most of the time so people treat me that way. M. T. doesn't hesitate to "pull my leg." Later Matt & I met with Josh, who had a great testimony of how God is using an unpleasant work situation to deepen his faith.
Today I met with my friend Gary, whom I've known for four years. We talked a lot about our personal relationship with Christ. For those who follow Christ, why don't we do this more often? Isn't this the essence of the Christian life? Naturally speaking, Gary & I don't have a lot in common. For one, he is "wicked smart" as American slang says it, a grad student at Harvard working on a Ph.D. Yet we have developed one of the deepest friendships I have because of Christ. At one point I spoke about trees. God could have made just one kind of tree. All trees will be willow trees. I think willows are cool but I like all the others too, not to mention the fruit we receive from some of them. The same God who made thousands of kinds of trees yearns for us to know him personally the way He knows us.
Finally as Matt drove me down to Conn. the Lord opened my eyes to an physical illustration of His love for us. In the same way as a couple engaged to be married can't spend enough time together because of their love for another, our Lord Jesus, the heavenly Bridegroom, yearns for His Bride. As a human couple can't wait for all the preparations to conclude and for the day of their marriage to finally arrive, so Jesus longs for us to be presented "blameless before the presence of His glory with great joy." (Jude 1:24b) "May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ." (2 Thessalonians 3:5ESV)
Monday returned to Chicago for further fellowship with Lewie and his friend Ricky, a brother from Arkansas. On Tuesday we visited a professor named Trevor who teaches at a local Bible school regarding a book he had written about adoption into God's family. I confess a bias against academics but this gentleman proved remarkably personable, eager to usher the Holy Spirit into his teaching and ministry, and open to other's input. His emphasis on the relational aspects of the NT refreshed all of us.
That evening my friends Tom & Diane joined me with about ten individuals in the discipleship community. We ate together at a big table, encouraged one another in a general discussion and then had conversations with one or two others. Quite a rewarding time.
Wednesday returned to the Boston area, had a meal with my friends Matt & M. T. The latter has aspirations of marriage to a sister in another state. Among other things, I appreciate his sense of humor. i'm serious most of the time so people treat me that way. M. T. doesn't hesitate to "pull my leg." Later Matt & I met with Josh, who had a great testimony of how God is using an unpleasant work situation to deepen his faith.
Today I met with my friend Gary, whom I've known for four years. We talked a lot about our personal relationship with Christ. For those who follow Christ, why don't we do this more often? Isn't this the essence of the Christian life? Naturally speaking, Gary & I don't have a lot in common. For one, he is "wicked smart" as American slang says it, a grad student at Harvard working on a Ph.D. Yet we have developed one of the deepest friendships I have because of Christ. At one point I spoke about trees. God could have made just one kind of tree. All trees will be willow trees. I think willows are cool but I like all the others too, not to mention the fruit we receive from some of them. The same God who made thousands of kinds of trees yearns for us to know him personally the way He knows us.
Finally as Matt drove me down to Conn. the Lord opened my eyes to an physical illustration of His love for us. In the same way as a couple engaged to be married can't spend enough time together because of their love for another, our Lord Jesus, the heavenly Bridegroom, yearns for His Bride. As a human couple can't wait for all the preparations to conclude and for the day of their marriage to finally arrive, so Jesus longs for us to be presented "blameless before the presence of His glory with great joy." (Jude 1:24b) "May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ." (2 Thessalonians 3:5ESV)
Saturday, September 19, 2009
The Windy City
Traveled with a brother George to the Indiana turnpike, stopping for fellowship with a brother named Keith on the way. Keith had served as a missionary to Haiti. I appreciate his seriousness about walking with the Lord. The night before enjoyed the hospitality of Charlie and Shelley and had a good discussion with them, people I had just met them the day before. It amazes me how God can establish instant rapport between members of His family. A young lad treated us to a good rendition of a nocturne by Chopin.
George traveled east, stopping for the night with a brother Miller, while I continued west. One of the joys that God gives me is connecting brethren who don't know one another. Both George and Miller have since contacted me to say that they enjoyed their time together. Wednesday afternoon I arrived at the home of old friends Tom & Diane whom I had not since for over thirty years. We had gotten to know one another in the Jesus People movement of the early 70-s in California. We enjoyed instant rapport. They now have seven children, most of whom have left the nest. Explored the idea of NT apostolic traditions and provided mutual encouragement to one another.
Thursday morning met with Tom & a number of brothers whom he hosts every week for fellowship and explained what God is doing with me. Spent the day with a brother Greg, also a friend from the Jesus People days, shadowing him as he did upholstery repair, my old trade. His business is much more profitable and less stressful than mine. Upholstery repairmen work alone, as they don't require a helper like most trades, and I think he found our fellowship fruitful.
Friday met with a brother Lewie whom the Lord has given a burden for the city of Chicago. He has established several discipleship communities in the city and beyond by following Jesus' model of making disciples- personal example and mentoring. Astonished by the unity we, two brothers who had not met before, had on every subject we discussed. Looking forward to meeting with the whole group Tuesday evening.
God is doing something in my heart with regard to Chicago, a city I have no prior knowledge of. May He continue to reveal it to me.
George traveled east, stopping for the night with a brother Miller, while I continued west. One of the joys that God gives me is connecting brethren who don't know one another. Both George and Miller have since contacted me to say that they enjoyed their time together. Wednesday afternoon I arrived at the home of old friends Tom & Diane whom I had not since for over thirty years. We had gotten to know one another in the Jesus People movement of the early 70-s in California. We enjoyed instant rapport. They now have seven children, most of whom have left the nest. Explored the idea of NT apostolic traditions and provided mutual encouragement to one another.
Thursday morning met with Tom & a number of brothers whom he hosts every week for fellowship and explained what God is doing with me. Spent the day with a brother Greg, also a friend from the Jesus People days, shadowing him as he did upholstery repair, my old trade. His business is much more profitable and less stressful than mine. Upholstery repairmen work alone, as they don't require a helper like most trades, and I think he found our fellowship fruitful.
Friday met with a brother Lewie whom the Lord has given a burden for the city of Chicago. He has established several discipleship communities in the city and beyond by following Jesus' model of making disciples- personal example and mentoring. Astonished by the unity we, two brothers who had not met before, had on every subject we discussed. Looking forward to meeting with the whole group Tuesday evening.
God is doing something in my heart with regard to Chicago, a city I have no prior knowledge of. May He continue to reveal it to me.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Clarifying Priorities
As I took an hour constitutional along a bucolic Indiana road earlier today, God ministered to me about clarifying my priorities. Traveling every 2-3 days, and interacting with new people all the time can produce a passive, TV watching approach to situations instead of responding to the Holy Spirit and giving what He has given to me. Since another purpose of this blog is to provide an introduction for those who either don't know me or don't know me well, I hope the exercise of delineating the priorities God has given me proves helpful.
A. To point people, believers and unbelievers to Jesus, not myself. "Looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith..." (Hebrews 12:2) That we may love, obey, follow, worship, glorify and abide in Him.
B. To work for the unity that Jesus prays for in John 17, specifically "That they may be one, even as we are one." v.22 I believe the NT emphasis of God as Father, Jesus as the Son, and believers as brothers or sisters of Jesus expresses relational unity
C. To minister the Word of God in a Holy Spirit led balance of truth and love. This includes but is not limited to teaching on our identity in Christ, the Bride of Christ, our membership in God's eternal family etc.
D. Spiritual parenting- to serve as the mentor, primarily to younger men, that I never had in the Lord. This encompasses discipleship in all its many facets.
E. To promote both the doctrine and the practice of the early apostles, the latter as a viable alternative in fulfilling A-F
F. To encourage individuals, families, and home gatherings in any way that God leads. To give anything of what He has so painstakingly worked in me.
As Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 5:9 "We make it our aim to please Him."
A. To point people, believers and unbelievers to Jesus, not myself. "Looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith..." (Hebrews 12:2) That we may love, obey, follow, worship, glorify and abide in Him.
B. To work for the unity that Jesus prays for in John 17, specifically "That they may be one, even as we are one." v.22 I believe the NT emphasis of God as Father, Jesus as the Son, and believers as brothers or sisters of Jesus expresses relational unity
C. To minister the Word of God in a Holy Spirit led balance of truth and love. This includes but is not limited to teaching on our identity in Christ, the Bride of Christ, our membership in God's eternal family etc.
D. Spiritual parenting- to serve as the mentor, primarily to younger men, that I never had in the Lord. This encompasses discipleship in all its many facets.
E. To promote both the doctrine and the practice of the early apostles, the latter as a viable alternative in fulfilling A-F
F. To encourage individuals, families, and home gatherings in any way that God leads. To give anything of what He has so painstakingly worked in me.
As Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 5:9 "We make it our aim to please Him."
Monday, September 14, 2009
Riding the wave
Pace has intensified since my last post. Had the privilege of attending my first writer's group on Thursday evening. After writing off and on for four decades, I received an opportunity to do a semi-dramatic reading of part of the first chapter of an evangelistic novel I am writing. Am praying for a door to open to publish it, and a prior completed work with the same theme.
Enjoyed good fellowship with my friend Miller. We took nature walks, heard Bach organ music, and counseled together. God has given him a ministry with many people around the world and used him to impact and encourage many.
Saturday morning drove to Toledo and met a young man Jake, formerly of my sending ekklesia in Cambridge. God has blessed him with fervency, self discipline, and a willingness to receive that I find rare. We encouraged one another in the Lord. On Sunday he introduced me to his new fellowship, started by a couple named David and Margo. I have deep respect for their willingness to open their home to students and provide the spiritual parenting that so many, including myself, never received. David led worship and taught from Daniel. Margo cooked a great meal and contributed to our discussion. David and I spoke to and prayed for one another afterwards. They just started their second year of home based fellowship. I regretted having to leave so soon and desire to return. As we look at the church planting strategy of Paul the apostle we find that he concentrated on cities in the eastern Roman Empire. I believe urban areas are the future of the church, and especially of home gatherings.
Sunday evening drove to north central Indiana and met up with my friend George, a man faithful to the Lord for many decades. At 77 he has just completed a Book of Psalms devotional. He introduced me to a group of saints with whom he fellowships. They are transitioning from a traditional approach to one home based. Sadly I missed their time of prayer but enjoyed fellowship with a handful of them afterwards.
New England possesses very few fields devoted to agriculture; the land is cramped and hilly. On my way west I have driven for hundreds of miles with fields on either side on ground flat as a board with fringes of trees rather than forests. I have belatedly learned that the short crops are soybeans, the tall ones corn. Our Lord keeps speaking to me about the importance of cultivating my personal relationship with Him in a similar manner as a farmer does his crops. (After the over abundance of rainfall that NE experienced this summer, it surprised me to see giant irrigation machines splashing water onto crops in northern Indiana.) If we receive from Him we have something to give, if not we drain others with our needs.
Wednesday morning I head for Chicago, and Milwaukee this weekend. I thank God for these opportunities. He has shown me that this initial foray is a scouting trip to see what doors will open, and who desires to receive what He can give through me. This will aid in returning for longer visits in the future.
Enjoyed good fellowship with my friend Miller. We took nature walks, heard Bach organ music, and counseled together. God has given him a ministry with many people around the world and used him to impact and encourage many.
Saturday morning drove to Toledo and met a young man Jake, formerly of my sending ekklesia in Cambridge. God has blessed him with fervency, self discipline, and a willingness to receive that I find rare. We encouraged one another in the Lord. On Sunday he introduced me to his new fellowship, started by a couple named David and Margo. I have deep respect for their willingness to open their home to students and provide the spiritual parenting that so many, including myself, never received. David led worship and taught from Daniel. Margo cooked a great meal and contributed to our discussion. David and I spoke to and prayed for one another afterwards. They just started their second year of home based fellowship. I regretted having to leave so soon and desire to return. As we look at the church planting strategy of Paul the apostle we find that he concentrated on cities in the eastern Roman Empire. I believe urban areas are the future of the church, and especially of home gatherings.
Sunday evening drove to north central Indiana and met up with my friend George, a man faithful to the Lord for many decades. At 77 he has just completed a Book of Psalms devotional. He introduced me to a group of saints with whom he fellowships. They are transitioning from a traditional approach to one home based. Sadly I missed their time of prayer but enjoyed fellowship with a handful of them afterwards.
New England possesses very few fields devoted to agriculture; the land is cramped and hilly. On my way west I have driven for hundreds of miles with fields on either side on ground flat as a board with fringes of trees rather than forests. I have belatedly learned that the short crops are soybeans, the tall ones corn. Our Lord keeps speaking to me about the importance of cultivating my personal relationship with Him in a similar manner as a farmer does his crops. (After the over abundance of rainfall that NE experienced this summer, it surprised me to see giant irrigation machines splashing water onto crops in northern Indiana.) If we receive from Him we have something to give, if not we drain others with our needs.
Wednesday morning I head for Chicago, and Milwaukee this weekend. I thank God for these opportunities. He has shown me that this initial foray is a scouting trip to see what doors will open, and who desires to receive what He can give through me. This will aid in returning for longer visits in the future.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Trekked almost five hundred miles on Tuesday, from the Albany, NY area to my friend Miller's abode north of Pittsburgh. Passed by sections of the Erie Canal, a Beechnut factory, and lots of cornfields, and other agricultural products that I, an ignorant city type, could not identify. Miller has a home in a village that contains a number of old order Amish, complete with brimmed hats and beards for the men, bonnets and long dresses for the women, and horses and buggies for all. It also has a college that he taught at for forty years. We wandered around the college today, I did my constitutional on the track, and we went to a prayer meeting with mostly elderly saints in the evening. I did my best to honor them as people who have proven faithful over many decades. May the Lord bring them safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory for ever and ever. (2 Tim 4:18)
Had my own private concert this morning, courtesy of my friend Miller and our friend Mary. They played piano solos and duos in a variety of styles- ragtime, Christian, classical, including a fascinating variation on the Happy Birthday theme featuring about ten different composer's motifs. An enlightening discussion ensued in which Miller drew a parallel between God's sovereignty and our freedom, and a pianist playing two melodies (counterpoint?) at the same time, which Mary illustrated with a Bach piece.
Had my own private concert this morning, courtesy of my friend Miller and our friend Mary. They played piano solos and duos in a variety of styles- ragtime, Christian, classical, including a fascinating variation on the Happy Birthday theme featuring about ten different composer's motifs. An enlightening discussion ensued in which Miller drew a parallel between God's sovereignty and our freedom, and a pianist playing two melodies (counterpoint?) at the same time, which Mary illustrated with a Bach piece.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Spiritual Warfare
Had an opportunity to hike a trail up Vroman's Nose with a genuine woodsman (hunter/fisherman/trapper) named Ed. Saw clear panoramas of Schoharie Creek Valley, a floodplain that grows hay, corn, apples, blueberries, pumpkins etc. Good exercise.
As I travel, I find many people concerned about eating in a healthy manner. While I believe that diet is the number one factor in maintaining or promoting good health, I hope it doesn't become yet another idol in our lives. God has not created our present bodies to last, no matter how much time, effort or money that we employ. Many of our brothers and sisters around the planet face the reality of insufficient food, rather than the luxury of organic or other specialized cuisine.
Am delighting in the fellowship of saints in the Albany, NY area, a region that I lived in while in high school but not thereafter. I find a genuine care for one another, generosity, and willingness to travel an hour to gather. Many of these saints are experiencing anguish in their personal lives. Although I do not believe that the devil has responsibility for anything and everything bad that occurs in our lives, nor do I believe that we can find a natural explanation for everything. I believe the truth lies somewhere in the middle. In 1 Peter 5:8-9 the apostle writes, "Be sober-minded, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." Sounds serious to me. We are told in the next verse to, "Resist him, firm in your faith..."
Ephesians 6, in the famous 'armor of God' passage, verse 12 says "we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." This passage speaks of a spiritual warfare that many Christians seem unable to wage. "For though we walk according to the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds." (2Cor. 10:3-4 ESV) We need to combat lies with the truth of the Word of God, and to pray in the Holy Spirit against the influence of our enemy.
As I travel I hear original songs written by saints, or ones I've not heard before. Since I have no musical ability, I am praying God will raise up an itinerant musician to travel and compile new songs and share them with other fellowships.
As I travel, I find many people concerned about eating in a healthy manner. While I believe that diet is the number one factor in maintaining or promoting good health, I hope it doesn't become yet another idol in our lives. God has not created our present bodies to last, no matter how much time, effort or money that we employ. Many of our brothers and sisters around the planet face the reality of insufficient food, rather than the luxury of organic or other specialized cuisine.
Am delighting in the fellowship of saints in the Albany, NY area, a region that I lived in while in high school but not thereafter. I find a genuine care for one another, generosity, and willingness to travel an hour to gather. Many of these saints are experiencing anguish in their personal lives. Although I do not believe that the devil has responsibility for anything and everything bad that occurs in our lives, nor do I believe that we can find a natural explanation for everything. I believe the truth lies somewhere in the middle. In 1 Peter 5:8-9 the apostle writes, "Be sober-minded, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." Sounds serious to me. We are told in the next verse to, "Resist him, firm in your faith..."
Ephesians 6, in the famous 'armor of God' passage, verse 12 says "we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." This passage speaks of a spiritual warfare that many Christians seem unable to wage. "For though we walk according to the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds." (2Cor. 10:3-4 ESV) We need to combat lies with the truth of the Word of God, and to pray in the Holy Spirit against the influence of our enemy.
As I travel I hear original songs written by saints, or ones I've not heard before. Since I have no musical ability, I am praying God will raise up an itinerant musician to travel and compile new songs and share them with other fellowships.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Launched!
Praise God. After two months of transition in Conn. in which our Lord blessed me with good fellowship with a number of saints, some R & R, and many opportunities to visit my ailing mother, I drove away at 10am Tuesday morning with a small car loaded to the gills with stuff, and a heart of rejoicing. Driving through a slice of Conn., up the Pioneer Valley in Mass. & through the rural ambiance of Vermont provided the pleasure of some one on one time with my heavenly Father.
Along the way, I observed numerous sites replete with orange cones and the orange and white striped barrels denoting construction activity, any number of men talking to one another or walking around, but no discernible work. Arrived in upstate NY near Lake Champlain to my first destination. Hardy & Katrine live in a little hobbit house they made themselves, on forty mostly forested acres on the side of a mountain. They are very hospitable people who serve others constantly. Their extensive garden and organic food purchases provide an excellent, healthy diet. We had the delight of taking a number of jaunts through the countryside, at night, in the daytime, observing streams, beaver ponds, horses.
One of the products of a beaver pond, in striking contrast to its environs, is the dead, ash gray, branchless trees standing like dead sentinels in the midst of it. The stagnant waters have drowned the root systems and slain the trees. It strikes me that our lives as Christians can resemble those forlorn stems if we do not allow the living waters to flow through our lives. "Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." (John 7:38ESV) We cannot rely on past experience, or anything else to replace the working of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Thursday afternoon traveled down to the Albany, NY area. The GPS worked well (thank you Allen & Marie)& I got to my second destination. I am ever more convinced of the necessity of itinerant ministry. I pray that God will raise up many saints to give themselves to this. Enjoying wonderful hospitality from David & Kathy. We discussed many things including a business venture they hope to start, prayed, worshipped together. David shared a number of songs he had written. They hope to make a CD.
Today (Friday) am trying to respond to all the Facebook inquiries, other e-mails, write up this blog entry, study the Word, and enjoy the Lord Jesus. Tonight i'm off to another part of the Albany area to meet up with other brothers.
"May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ." (2 Thess 3:5)
Along the way, I observed numerous sites replete with orange cones and the orange and white striped barrels denoting construction activity, any number of men talking to one another or walking around, but no discernible work. Arrived in upstate NY near Lake Champlain to my first destination. Hardy & Katrine live in a little hobbit house they made themselves, on forty mostly forested acres on the side of a mountain. They are very hospitable people who serve others constantly. Their extensive garden and organic food purchases provide an excellent, healthy diet. We had the delight of taking a number of jaunts through the countryside, at night, in the daytime, observing streams, beaver ponds, horses.
One of the products of a beaver pond, in striking contrast to its environs, is the dead, ash gray, branchless trees standing like dead sentinels in the midst of it. The stagnant waters have drowned the root systems and slain the trees. It strikes me that our lives as Christians can resemble those forlorn stems if we do not allow the living waters to flow through our lives. "Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." (John 7:38ESV) We cannot rely on past experience, or anything else to replace the working of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Thursday afternoon traveled down to the Albany, NY area. The GPS worked well (thank you Allen & Marie)& I got to my second destination. I am ever more convinced of the necessity of itinerant ministry. I pray that God will raise up many saints to give themselves to this. Enjoying wonderful hospitality from David & Kathy. We discussed many things including a business venture they hope to start, prayed, worshipped together. David shared a number of songs he had written. They hope to make a CD.
Today (Friday) am trying to respond to all the Facebook inquiries, other e-mails, write up this blog entry, study the Word, and enjoy the Lord Jesus. Tonight i'm off to another part of the Albany area to meet up with other brothers.
"May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ." (2 Thess 3:5)
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