Central Baptist Church

Hastings, NY - This has been a wonderful week for us. Pastor Michael Zopff is a great brother who is being used of the Lord to grow a great work here just north of Syracuse. It is a great blessing to hear the testimonies of souls saved, encouragement in the midst of difficulties and growing excitement about God's work from the people as well as the pastor. The church is about 7yrs old and this is their 6th missions conference. We praise God for the opportunity to have an hour to present our ministry and field questions on Sunday morning and then preach in the second hour. The people are excited about what God is doing and desires to do in the Philippines.

Another great blessing for us is that the keynote speaker is Pastor Eddie Wyatt from Happy Valley Baptist Church in Villa Rica, GA. He has preached many times at Youth Ablaze in Rochester as is a a wonderful Spirit-filled preacher. Monday night he preached on the cross and how the first three statements Christ made were for others - forgive them, today, you will be with me in paradise and then speaking to John of Mary. His message was on love of others and was a great challenge and encouragement. Monday we stayed in Syracuse and then had time to fellowship with Bro. Wyatt, Zopff and the Thrum family - missionaries to New Guinea. Take a moment and pray for all these servants of our Lord. Tuesday was another hot day and a lightning storm took out power at the church all day - from about 11:30am until oh, 6:30! The Lord is good, we were scrounging for generators and extension cords etc and the Lord showed us that He would be the source of our power for the night!
Pastor Wyatt preached on the excuses of Moses and challenged us not to limit God and not to doubt a call that He has placed on us, another great message.
Wednesday, well that is another post :)
We have had a great conference, we have met pastors from other churches, we have been blessed with encouragement and gifts from the church family and even enjoyed a great church picnic at a nearby park Sunday afternoon, it has been a full and blessed week!