On Sunday, October 4th, our travels took us to Spring, TX (just north of Houston) where we were able to spend the morning and evening worshiping at Founders Baptist Church. Founders Baptist Church is one of the most recent homes of The Expositors Seminary. Richard Caldwell has been pastor of Founders for 18 years following 10 years of pastoring at a church he planted outside of Austin, TX. He is also finishing his Doctorate of Ministry degree from The Master's Seminary.
Richard preached two unforgettable sermons "Clinging to the Gospel for Life" from Hebrews 2:1-4 and "Godly Wisdom and the Guarded Heart" from Proverbs 4:20-27 which are still echoing in my head and heart today. When you have a chance, please listen to both for your own sake. We are grateful for Richard's kindness to have us come share the ministry of GLL with Founders.
I should take a moment and explain how the Lord providentially brought an answer to our prayer from this congregation. Dana and I ran into an issue with our visas a few days before we visited Founders. We were ready to spend more money to make what would turn out to be the wrong choice. I was given the opportunity to present the ministry of GraceLife London to the Founders' congregation during the evening service. After the service, a lovely couple Chris and Tiffany, walked up to us to explain how they had seen our support video and had been praying for GraceLife London for quite a while. It turned out that Chris works for the U.S. government and was able to help us get the answers that saved us both time and money. We are so grateful for God answering our prayer through this couple and their wonderful encouragement to us.
Our time in Houston also led to us spending time talking with Ken Ramey, church planter and pastor of Lakeside Bible Church in Montgomery, TX. Ken is the author of the book Expository Listening. It was an opportunity for us to hear about how Lakeside was established and its recent progress. We are grateful for Ken taking time to talk with us and allowing us to talk to him about GraceLife London.
The Lord is providing for us as we go but we still have a ways to go before we have the financial support we need for the first year at GraceLife London. Please continue to pray for financial support. Also, we just submitted the final paperwork for our visas. Pray that the process will be fast and that we can receive them by November 10th.
Stay tuned for more updates from across the country including this past Sunday at Mission Road Bible Church.
I'm always amazed how God orchestrates things - praying for you to reach your goals Adam and Dana - God will bless your commitment I'm sure or I should say continue to bless....! Wonderful folk who have played a part already, praise God....
ReplyDeleteThank you Trudy! You are right. The Lord has blessed us already and we plan to share more of those stories of the people and places we were able to encounter along the way. Thank you for your prayers as we continue to travel across the country raising support.
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