New update

Since I last did a post we have traveled down to our home church, gone to a street preachers meeting in GA, visited a Church in IN, and are now in Illinois. At our home church we had a good time as always:) Had some game nights, the boys were able to go to the gym with the Maynards, and all the other normal fun stuff. We had a good Sunday meeting with Dad preaching all day. We left there on a Wed. leaving our trailer there and heading to GA for a street preachers meeting. We had very good preaching on the street as we went to the Georgia State University. I was able to go both days and I had many good conversations. One girl asked about the modest dress and I was able to answer her questions where she understood. She also thanked me after-wards for answering her nicely and where she was able to understand. It seems she had a friend who used to wear only skirts and dresses but this lady was never able to explain to her WHY she wore them. So that was a big blessing. We were supposed to go out and preach a game but the weather and all prevented us from going out. We then headed to Indianapolis to visit a Church for a couple of days. We were hoping to be able to see some friends from the home Church as they were up north on vacation but it never worked out:( We are now heading to IL to visit with a friend in Nauvoo. I will try to put up some pictures of our past couple weeks. I have some really cute pictures of Gracie. But I have to go now as we have a birthday party to start:) Mercy turned 9 today!!!
Everyone have a great day!!

Our Fun Week!!

What a fun week we have had! My sister and I have been staying with the Owen family in NY while the rest of the family was in PA. Needless to say we have had some great fun and it has been a nice rest. On Wed night we went to Antioch Baptist for Church and on Thursday we went to the Square in Buffalo. The concert had been canceled because of the rain that day but we still went down and had many good conversations with the Gothic youth and others.
Then on Friday there was supposed to be a concert by Billy Joel and Elton John that we were going to go preach at and pass out tracts for. A couple of hours before it started we found out it had been canceled because one of the singers had become sick. Well, we went down anyways as many people did not know it had been canceled:) We still had opportunity to witness to some and pass out many tracts. It was amazing the distances people had driven for this concert. Many were from several hours away in NY and we heard some from Ohio, etc. These people drove a long ways for their idol but yet many Christians will not put themselves out to hear good solid preaching, etc. Anyways, we still witnessed as we walked to the HSBC arena and back to our car. We met the Church of Scientology who were in downtown Buffalo with a table and literature. Bro Greg was preaching as we went by them and one man came over to talk to us. He made many false statements such as a fool cannot witness for the Lord, you have to be highly educated to tell the Gospel, that Christ never raised his voice but was always meek and mild, etc. We finally moved on as he was just wasting our time.
Today we went down to the Canal Fest in downtown Tonowanda. We passed out many tracts as we were on our way to our preaching corner. We got set up on the bridge in an out of the way corner and Bro Greg started preaching. Within about 30 minutes the Event Staff came over and told us we could not pass out tracts, nor could we preach on that sidewalk. Eventually everything got settled and we were able to continue preaching and passing out literature. We had many who gave us a thumbs up or came over to say they agreed with us. What a change from the normal! Hannah was getting kind of fussy as we were ending and it was starting to really rain so we packed it up and headed back home. There were several others out from different Churches who were also giving out the Gospel.
Now we are getting ready for dinner tonight and Church tomorrow. It has been a busy week but it has been very fun too. Hannah has been such fun to play with and Sally is a very good friend. I will greatly miss them when we go back home but I will see them next Thursday.

Have a great weekend all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In New York after camp meeting

Whew!! What a busy week it has been! We have been in Lockport, NY for an old-fashioned camp meeting at Antioch Baptist Church. The first two meetings I did not get to go to because I was sick(: I still am not feeling good but I feel better than I have. It looks like I may have bronchitis but I am taking lots of herbs and natural stuff. As I was saying though we were at a camp meeting this past week. Bro Ron Williams, Bro Tim Hargett, and many others from different states, including Florida, Vermont, Ohio, etc came up for the meetings. I really enjoyed the preaching, especially Bro Hargett's. We had meetings every morning and then we had lunch, some free time and then dinner and back to meeting until about 10:00 every night. What a week! Then on Friday we went to Niagara Falls for some evangelism and playing of instruments. It poured the whole time but we got many tracts out anyways. Then Saturday we had our own day full of witnessing at the Jehovah's Witness convention, the pride parade and then the Mormon Hill Cumorah that evening. It was a late night and then up again early in the morning for Church. I loved the whole week though. It was tiring but refreshing at the same time and I know I needed the preaching. Hopefully, Lord willing, they will do the camp meeting again next year and we will be able to come up for it. Now my sister and I are staying at a friends house here in Lockport while the rest of the family is in PA for the week. We are having lots of fun and a great time of encouragement and refreshment after being on the go all last week. Please everyone pray that I get better soon though. It is definitely no fun being sick and this cough is pretty bad(: Hopefully it will be gone soon. I can't wait:)

Our Weekend of Street Preaching

Well, it has been an interesting weekend. We went out street preaching for Spring Break in Panama City, FL. Many of the members of our Home Church came out with us. It was a real blessing going out. We were able to talk to a few people who were walking down the sidewalk and

we had a lot of conversations with the people in vehicles. Hopefully some of them listened. It is sad to see all the people who think they are saved and are either not saved, or they are not following the Lord. We dealt with three girls who, two of them are Baptist and one is Pentecostal, they said we were doing it the wrong way. They said we were only showing anger and calling people names. By the end of the conversation the one girl was crying because we were making her job harder. She couldn't see that the reason we are out there is because we care. Many of those people will never walk into a Church. Hopefully they will read the signs, hear the Scripture or even get preached at and get mad enough to go home and open a Bible and read it. We did get out some tracts also which many put in their pockets. Overall it was a very good time and hopefully we can go out again next week.