The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond
The Picture to the left of Erin was taken on the shores of Loch Lomond. We just thought perhaps if you find yourself singing the song sometime, you may want a visual to go along with it. The Mt. in the background is Ben Lomond which rises to around 3200 ft. above sea level. Most of the time the top is covered in the clouds as you see here.

We are eagerly anticipating our next guests coming on Sunday. We have a team of 11 coming from New Jersey to help a local church that is giving it one more go at it before closing its doors.
This will be a great time as the team consists of Julie's sister Diane and husband Randy (he will be known as Randall during the week, Randy means amorous over here, actually there's another word that begins with an h but I thought I would for once use some discretion), two of their three children and 7 others coming from their church. We will be doing a Vacation Bible School and various other things as well at the church (Alva Baptist Church). Alva is a small town right at the base of the Ochil Mt. range so on one of the days we would like to go on a prayer trek to the highest peak over the town and spend some time praying for God's spirit to move in a big way over this land. Hopefully the weather will hold out although hiking in the rain is kind of fun too.

Last night we had a special 'Selah' praise concert at church. I really enjoyed it as I had the opportunity to play drums with some great musicians. Their regular drummer they had with them for the past 4 years has moved back to Ireland so I have been asked to assume that position now which I am honored to do. I wish I had my own kit but the one they have isn't so bad. It's a 5 peice Premier set and it's sounds pretty good but I do miss my china boy cymball and my chimes. Actually I miss my kick pedal and all of my cymballs. Oh well, at least I get to play. The great thing is this church is pretty big so I can really hit them as hard as I want, no brushes here. The only problem is I have some tendenitis in my left elbow so every time I crack the snare I get a pretty good pain shooting up the arm. Hopefully that won't last too much longer or they'll have to shoot me up with steroids. Bla, Bla, Bla.... The important thing was that God was really stirring people's hearts during the evening which was an answer to prayer. There is just so much apathy here so we were praying specifically against that and the people really seemed to be moved, praise God!

The weather here has been pretty amazing so far this late spring with much sunshine and temps in the 60's and 70's. We also been sucked into the whole world cup thing as we actually found ourselves shouting at the tv the other day watching the Americans play the Italians. That was by far the most exciting soccer game I've ever seen. I thought the Americans totally outplayed them but the game ended in a 1-1 tie. I wonder how much money the refs got from the Italian government, just a thought. Next game is Thursday against Ghana. Go USA!!

That's all for now, more later.

Marc