Thursday in Chittenango

We praise the Lord for the opportunity to join Pastor Ashton Nelson and his family at North Madison Baptist Church last night. We had some great fellowship at dinner with them and a wonderful missionary family to Papua, New Guinea. The only problem was that the response time at the restaurant was a little wanting so by the time we got our food and inhaled it we had 10 minutes to drive back to the church because that is when the service was to start! It went something like this...Steph wipes hands and faces and tells me of the various diapers that are in need of changing, i have to reply with a fatherly veto. We get back to the church with the pastor at T minus 3 minutes and counting - the members patiently awaiting our arrival. I scramble for the laptop and projector, Steph grabbed the kids and the diapers...the piano is playing, the laptop is booting and we begin the service. Pastor Nelson was great and we had a lot of fun with it. He let us know that while they are serious about God's word, they are informal in areas like this. We had a great service and fellowship after. My kids had a great time playing after the service with some other MK's and that was a blessing. We praise the Lord for the good meeting and the opportunity to once again share our burden for the Philippine Islands.