Stories from the Field

This week we also had our last youth meeting for the school year. It went pretty well. We had a kid show up who never came before and he still received the gospel message personally and a gift to remember it through the summer. That was an exciting thing to say that everyone who came

Leslie had a neat experience with her kids down in Foundations (Junior Church). She asked the kids what it meant to to be a Christian. She received answers about church attendance, being the best version of themselves and various other answers.  After explaining to them that none of those things makes you a Christian but only accepting

The fire department has been tremendously busy this month. Mostly grass fires, but we had a car accident and a house fire.  The house fire had a neat incident.  After we got the house out, myself and a couple other members went inside to try to recover some valuable and necessary items – hearing aids, truck

I had the opportunity to talk with a girl about my age who has been searching for Truth. She had attended a number of churches and was full of questions about church and the Bible. So I did my best to answer her questions while telling her about our personal call to ministry and bringing

About a year ago we updated our website. I spent a huge amount of time on it, and although it is not too expensive it still costs a fair amount of money. Lately I had been wondering if it was worth it. Of course, I know it is but it felt like we weren’t seeing

Sometimes all you need to be is available. One of our church members generally keeps to himself and takes care of himself.  We have good talks when I visit, and I always made sure he knew I was available. So it was a true delight when he called to ask me to drive him to an

As we enter retirement, we appreciate the door that the Lord has opened to us through Village Missions.  The work that Village Missions does has placed us in the path of many needy, hurting and spiritually hungry people. We could not have ministered to these folks without the faithfulness of God through Village Mission and all those that

The FCA baseball camp went really well.  Combined between the 2 days, including both campers and their parents that stayed to watch, we had about 100 people.  Some good baseball drills were taught and the gospel was clearly preached!  Gospel tracts were handed out along with invitations to church, and all the Bibles we had

I just received a note asking me to open the next town meeting with PRAYER! Wow. Please pray with us the Lord will use that short time with heads bowed before Him in the hearts of those listening in a powerful way & praise the Lord for the opportunity to meet many new folks in

We are in our 10th year in Arcadia. It is becoming more and more apparent that we are missionaries, not just a pastor serving a church. We meet people daily who ask questions and surprise us by telling us they listen to Ray’s message on the internet each week – people who do not darken

We praise God for a new lady coming to our fellowship. During Covid she began to listen to some really good preachers online and gravitated towards Spurgeon and MacArthur. She realized she needed to be in a fellowship, especially as her faith caused her family members to disavow her. She called the church and I