Updates: Sue and I have had a great Holiday season. Being with our children, grand children and extended family is always a blessing. We have also enjoyed the opportunity to present several Christmas musical programs with our Church choir as well as do some solo programs during this holiday season. We are thankful that we have been able to give to others with money gifts and share what God has blessed us with this year. We are always wanting to give more, and to do more.

This week I asked a veteran missionary to Mexico what I could do to help him in his ministry. "Should I bring you clothes that you can take to Mexico and give away? Should I bring you canned foods that you could take to our brothers and sisters in Mexico?" He looked at me and said, "If you bring me clothes to take to Mexico I will not take them. If you bring me food to take to Mexico, I will not take it. But, if you bring me Bibles written in Spanish, I will take to Mexico as many as you can supply me with. I will even pay extra to get them across the border. This is what is needed most, the Word of God."

I listened to this missionary as he opened the Word in Wednesday night Bible study, and taught the Word of God for about an hour, answering questions from the congregation by going to various Bible passages and letting the Word interpret itself. The Holy Spirit led us in a thought process that was so wonderful I was already looking forward to the next time I could participate with them. None of this was prepared, the questions from the congregation were not part of a Bible Study program they were going through or anything like that. I know this missionary preaches sermons he has studied for and prepared in advance, but it was so refreshing to hear answers come from the Bible without bringing in worldly illustrations, jokes, the latest football or basketball standings, secular stories, or the thinking of commentators.

Sue and I believe this is a tremendous opportunity. 1) We will be purchasing $10 Bibles in Spanish to be given to most, but we will also be purchasing more expensive $40 Thompson Chain type bibles in Spanish to be given to pastors and teachers in Mexico. 2) We will be planning a trip to go into inner Mexico to deliver Bibles with this missionary and his wife later in 2012. Contact us if you would like to help and I'll be glad to share the details with you.

Corinthians 5:17 says, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

If you have never received Christ in your life, I invite you to check out my testimony page and find out more about what it means to become a Christian, and how you can become that 'new creature' talked about in 2 Corinthians 5:17.