PRAYER NEEDS and "THE WATER"

THREE ITEMS OF IMMEDIATE IMPORTANCE: 1) Pray for my mom...she'll kill me for posting this but she is having serious vision problems in her eye. The doctor says it's now a virus in her eye (this after making up several other possible diagnosis). In other words the doctor doesn't know and we're very concerned about my mom and her eye. My dad still can't see clearly out of his right eye (this happened after our Hurricane Ike relief trip to Texas) so I'm not sure what's going on. All I know is that God is bigger than these things and I trust Him. Please agree with me in prayer over my parents' vision issues. 2) Sarah has dilated 1cm!!! Just a few more weeks to go! 3) The Alaska mission team is leaving on Monday afternoon. Please remember our 9 trailblazers in prayer as well as the people they will be ministering to.

NOW ON TO THE BLOG...On Sunday I had the opportunity to witness 8 adults being baptized. It was a great joy to watch these new believers come up out of the water clapping their hands and demonstrating an excitement about their profession of faith!

One of the adults being baptized was a guy that teaches at our local elementary school. After nailing down his salvation just a few months ago he decided he was ready to be baptized. As he made his way down the steps a bunch of our kids that were seated in the floor near the baptistery started clapping and saying "YEAH!" These kids were kids from his classes at school.

As I listened to their applause and cheers and I watched his face my heart melted. It's hard to write about it even without getting a little chocked up because it's just so cool to think about. His students were cheering him on in his faith; they were standing behind him and lifting him up and encouraging him -- their mentor, their teacher. Some of these kids had already been baptized months or even years ago and now there they were rooting this new believer on! Oh I'm telling ya it was awesome to see and hear! Praise God for kids!

That's all I have today. I just couldn't get those things off of my mind and wanted to share with you that neat little story!

Have a great day!
Ron