Hey there people of 'Planet Blog', how's it bloggin'?

Erin is three months today, I can't believe it, she just keeps getting cuter every day. No offense to the rest of you babies and parents out there, but I think she is about as cute as a baby can get. She's at least in the top three of the cutest babies I've ever seen. Take a guess at who the other two might be.

IWT Stuff

Anyway, an update on the Dunblane meeting. It's looks like it's going to have to wait until we get back from the states in August. The pastor I met with is also heading to the states around the same time we are. This is very typical around here. Everything just seems to shut down here in the summer. I am also going to be meeting with the senior pastor of Calvary Motherwell in August as well. He had been pretty busy with other stuff including helping to plan his daughters upcoming wedding so we decided to get together when we get back here. If you ever want to hear some excellent, and I mean excellent teaching from the bible, go to their web-site www.calvarymotherwell.org and go to the multi-media section. They have a whole library of his (David Simpson) teaching. It is excellent stuff and much needed in the church today. I just like how they go right through the bible and let the text dictate the subject rather than the other way around. That church is definitely one of the bright spots in the church in Scotland today. Another good thing happened the other day. Ian Black, who heads up a ministry called 'Dundee for Christ', got back to me and would like to meet up in the next two weeks. He is probably the biggest mover and shaker in all of Scotland with organizing large scale church related events. This is quite significant since large scale events and Scotland are somewhat of an oxymoron. Anyway, pray that we would be able to meet up before we head out.

Answer to Prayer

Julie and I have recently been praying about starting a small group or home fellowship, whatever you want to call it. Well, last week the assisitant pastor from Stirling Baptist Church approached us and asked us if we would be interested in leading a small group for what he thought are new believers. We immediately said yes which shocked him. He said he was used to a lot of non-committal answers or people never getting back to him about things. We just knew in our hearts that's what God wanted us to do so there was no need for delay. We'll be having our first meeting next Tuesday evening the 14th, so please keep that in prayer.

Hannah's getting married!!

No, this isn't the latest Julia Roberts movie. Hannah, the former bass player for Beyond the Pale is getting married July 9th. We just recieved the news today and we are really excited for her and her groom to be. God bless 'em!!!

Well, that's all for today folks.

Later,

Marc