Cross and Crown Baptist Church - Pensacola Fl

Not willing that one should perish - the theme for the conference. Praise the Lord for His longsuffering

After GIBC we went about 2 hours east to be with Pastor Joe Davis for a conference at Cross and Crown. Pastor Davis is a Phd and was a Bible professor at PCC for a number of years before taking the Pastorate about 19 years ago. The two families with us at the conference were the Tessins - 16 year veterans to the Philippines! and the Rickers, who are leaving at the end of March to go to Peru to minister to the deaf there. It was exciting to see that young family packed and ready to go to the field with deputation finished - we look forward to the sweet time that will be also.
Both of these families call Cross and Crown home so we were the outsiders at the party but we praise the Lord that they made us feel like we were old friends - it is good to have blood relatives at every conference we go to amen?!
They had a Kids4Missions picnic on Saturday and the girls had a great time. They have kids as young as 7 that participate in faith promise missions giving there. It is a blessing to see the zeal for God's mission in the youngest of them.
The church was a great blessing in taking us out to dinner, having a ladies day out and much more. Each of us had opportunity to present and preach and Stephanie even gave her salvation testimony in front of the church for the first time, Praise the Lord!
God has been so good to us. We stayed in the home of a man named JB who loves kids and really had a great time with the girls. He has been faithfully ministering in many areas fo years and is praying about the Lord using him someday on a full time basis. Pray for JB that the Lord would work out an insurance issue from the last hurricane that damaged his home. He would appreciate it. The Lord has blessed this church with a number of missionaries sent and a church plant already and we are excited to hear what he will continue to do as they move into a long awaited building in the next couple months.

When I have time I will put in some pics from these conferences. Thanks for your prayers. Next up - Hartselle Alabama