Seasons of life can be slow and fast. The last eight weeks or so here in South Africa have flown by. It has been such an exciting and full few weeks.

On Friday, I was able to say goodbye to our group of 45 people from Oakwood Baptist Church in Anderson, SC. Brother Cory and his group were such a pleasure to host. We were blessed by them, and I pray God will raise up full-time Christian workers from that group. I am especially praying for more foreign missionaries. 🙂

This is the largest church group we have hosted so far, and I believe it went great. I am so grateful for the team of missionaries we are honored to work with, who make trips like this possible.

If you or your church would be interested in a mission trip to the greatest place in the world, please let me know. We would love to have you. My first missions trip changed my life, and I believe your first missions trip could change your life as well.

This week my wife and I are celebrating two big anniversaries. On June 23, we celebrated our 13th year of arriving here in South Africa. The next day, we celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary.

To celebrate, we traveled to Mpumalanga to visit Noah and Tristan Wilkerson along with Josh and Morgan Barton. Our daughter Emilee came along as well. We did leave Emilee with the others for a few days so we could get away by ourselves, but we are back with everyone now.

Prayer Requests & Praise

This coming week we will be having our Winter Teen and Junior Camps at Camp Rhino. Please pray that the Lord works in the hearts of these precious young people. We are praying for changed lives.

Please pray for Lighthouse Baptist Church. We had 12 fathers in attendance for Father’s Day, which was a record for us. The Lord is moving in our church, and we pray that many more come to Christ. Continue to pray for our young and older men and ladies who are growing in the Lord.

In the coming weeks, we will begin construction on our new auditorium. This will, of course, provide a great space for services, but it will also enable us to have much better space for Sunday school classes and our children’s ministries.

Please pray for our daughter Emilee. She is here for a few months, helping during this full summer season. She will be returning to the States in August to continue raising support so she can return to South Africa full time.

Thank you to those who have already reached out to invite her to your church and to those who have already taken her on for support. She has been a tremendous help to me personally during the last couple of weeks she has been here, and having her here full time would be an even greater blessing.

Our building projects have been a little overwhelming lately. We are in the process of building a new staff house, a staff lodge, a mission team lodge, and doubling our bathroom space for our girls’ dorms, not to mention constructing a new building for our church. To say it’s a lot might be an understatement:)

Please pray that the Lord provides the funds needed to complete these projects and that each one would be used to further His work here in South Africa.

You can also download my daughter Emilee’s Prayer Letter for this month.