Inspirational Conversations

Today I had two great conversations that got me excited about what God is doing. Both meetings made me hunger to see and experience more adundantly the goodness of God.

The first meeting was with Jeff Crabtree. His is the new Director of Missions for the Warren Association. He is clearly passionate about evangelism, church cooperation, and church planting through local churches. We are blessed to have him here in our area and I anticipate with great expectation the joy of serving with him and the other 46 churches and their pastors and leaders, as Jeff leads us and mobilizes us toward fulfilling the great commission through the Church.

The second meeting was with Bobby Baldwin. He is a member at Living Hope and a former pastor. He will be speaking at Beach Bend Park on Father’s Day at the “Hot Rod Reunion” on the text of Ephesians 2:10. He will be taking a worship team from Living Hope and they will be providing a worship service at 9:00 that morning. We went over his message and it is going to be outstanding. Please pray for him and the team that will be going there to minister in Jesus’ name. There is a man named Ron who will be there who is not a believer. Please pray for Ron that God will rouse his soul and that this man will find a friend in Jesus.

He also told me some amazing stories of how he has experienced God's grace. One of my favorite stories he shared was the one about him getting left in the Green River Prison located in Central City, Ky. for over 28 hours. The authorities just forgot he was there so he stayed and shared the Gospel. He got to speak to almost every person in that prison. He had to go back the next week with a borrowed baptistery and baptized hundreds of people. In the ensuing weeks the officers indicated that daily they were finding drug paraphernalia and unused drugs in the walk ways where prisoners had given them up. Consider what one man armed with the Gospel and 28 hours was able to do that millions of dollars and years couldn’t?

Zephaniah 3:17 “The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.”