We spend the day down in Missouri yesterday visiting my wife’s grandfather. He’s an amazing guy. The son of a Missouri farmer, he served in WWII as a gunner in a dive-bomber, went to college on the GI Bill and became an engineer who helped develop the guidance systems on the Tomahawk cruise missile, the F-111 fighter-bomber and a number of other aircraft. At 82 years old magazines like “Aviation Weekly,” “Newsweek” and “The Economist” are still on his reading list. I wish I could spend more time with him!
We also had the privilege of speaking at “grandpa’s” church last night. The church is 150 years old and is part of the Southern Baptist Convention. While they support their own missionaries, they’ve also been praying for us over the last four years. It was great to meet some of these faithful people. One lady had family in Slovenia, another had traveled around the world on different trips. Some people might not think that a rural Missouri, country church has much to contribute to the Kingdom but they’d be dead wrong. These people are a testimony to the faithfulness of God and God’s people, demonstrated in countless small churches around the country. I thank God for them and for their partnership with us, though they’d never met us until yesterday.
God is doing great things throughout the world and I”m grateful for the wonderful work that the SBC is doing both overseas and in the US. They are one of the premier church-planting groups in the US and one of the few remaining missionary-sending agencies committed to doing missions through long-term, language– and culture-learning missionaries.
Thanks everyone for a great evening!
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