Here is a guy you should read, writing about a place you should eat. We don’t have one of these in the Downriver, but if we did, I would support it and encourage everyone I know to patronize it.

This summer will be my eleventh year speaking at Camp Barakel. I consider it one of the great privileges of my life to preach and minister among the godly people who make up the Barakel team. This picture is of Barakel’s director, Paul Gardner, a dear friend in the Lord. This week Jeremy Linsley (pictured below) will be leading worship in chapel where I will speak. I will be writing, kayaking, swimming in the lake, reading in the sun, mixing it up with the counselors, staff, and students, and doing …

Dad, when will he be big enough to play football and camp out?

Tomorrow, before dawn, over 100 boys and girls and teens will gather at Evangel to leave for Lake Ann Camp! We will be using our new bus…. and our older bus! Please pray for the work of God in the lives of the campers this week.
Our Hannah has been at Lake Ann for the summer with three other Evangel kids; Bethany Gibson, Rachael Haynes, and Dale McBride. Jeremy and Janell Hall (former Youth Pastor’s children) are also serving at Lake Ann this summer.

Tuesday evening we took Team Indiana to Lake Michigan to watch a sunset. When we left the sky was completely covered with dark gray clouds. We wanted to do a “seeking God circle” while the sun was setting. When we climbed to the top of the dune, God provided a break in the clouds. You could see the sun setting beautifully and the Chicago skyline.

Yesterday the 9th and 10th grade students from Evangel dug completely around an entire wing of the church by hand for a water-proofing project. They worked so hard with a sweet spirit. They are an outstanding group of young people.
“The flower of youth is never more beautiful than when it bends toward the Sun of Righteousness.”
Last night we took the team to Indiana Dunes to watch the sunset. We had planned it all week, but when the time came it was cloudy and dark. I said, “It will be a …

In every city, and villiage, and berg, and suburb, and township, and county in America the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ rests on the backs of men like Pastor Terry Gibson, men who are called and empowered by God and commissioned for the task of the pastorate. We are spending the week at the church he pastors, First Baptist Church in Portage, Indiana. The men are actually camping out for week in a park-like setting under the stately Maples and Oaks on the chruch property. (I just happen to …

A few years ago Heidi and Wes were baptized on the same day. It was Easter Sunday 2007. Just before the Lord Jesus ascended he said, “Go into all the world and make disciples, BAPTIZING them….” A disciple of Jesus is a follower of Jesus. A follower of Jesus is baptized. If a person will not be baptized they should not consider themselves a follower of Jesus. That is a sobering thought. It would be like my wife telling me, “I will marry you but I won’t wear a ring, …

When Hannah was just a little girl I started calling her Rudy – it is a short version of her middle name Ruth. Rudy is the term of endearment I prefer to use for her even though she has now grown to a tall, beautiful young lady with poise inappropriate for a nickname you might expect to use with a ten-year-old red-headed, freckle-faced boy with a missing tooth.