(With Jeff Gore & Dr. John Hallum, Pastor of East Side Baptist Church in Killeen, TX. - March 2007)

     What a joy it is to witness the wonders of God!  What a privilege it is to have the opportunity to serve God so much and so often!  I have been blessed to see 16 persons come to the Lord these past three months.  God opened the doors for me to preach 9 revivals since the first of the year.  At least two of the churches seemed to experience genuine renewal.  The revival at Rochelle Baptist was extended because of all that God was doing.  I have preached 66 times in 13 churches in 5 months.  I have been in two prisons and counseled with 10 inmates.  Two of them accepted Christ!

     Here are just a few of the highlights of an already phenomenal year:

     - I saw a Ku Klux Klansman come to Christ.  He told me he did not want to hate anymore!  His conversion reminds me of what happened to another man named Saul of Tarsus.

     - I spent a half an hour talking with an inmate about assurance of salvation.  It was one of the most refreshingly honest conversations I have had in a long time.  It was the type of divine appointment that made a thousand mile journey make sense.

    - I watched God arrest the hearts of a group of students in Holliday, TX. on the final night of revival.  Two youth came to Christ that night.

    - Six girls came to Christ in six days during 12 services in Killeen, TX.  The church was challenged to bring in the lost by one enthusiastic Puerto Rican brother on Sunday.  They took up the challenge beautifully - and God was able to work among them.

     Along the way I enjoyed southwestern hospitality, incredible fish tacos, and raw oysters.....in Arizona!  I had a bobcat (a family pet?) take up residence in my bed one night!  (I now feel kinship with another Baptist named John.)  I was blessed to work four times with my dear friend Jeff Gore!  I hiked the Cochise Stronghold.  I hiked the rail-bed of the Alamogordo and Sacramento Mountain railway.  I met many new friends and spent time catching up with some old ones.  I passed through Abilene and took Lauren to lunch several times.  I watched Daniel play baseball for Wayland Baptist.  And Vicki Lynn and I went to El Paso to hear blues legend B.B.King.  All in all, it has been a phenomenal spring.  And God deserves the glory for every wonderful thing that has happened thus far in the souljourn of 2007!