If you are wondering why the blog has been so quiet lately, there is a simple answer. I’ve just been way too busy! With the usual work here, the unusual mini-emergencies, that are only unusual in type and not in frequency, working ahead on studio work for our upcoming furlough, and the actual planning for the furlough; Mildred and I have been putting in some very long days.
I think that the long days finally caught up with me last night. My throat got more sore by the minute. So now I’m tanked up on cold medicine and getting the rest I should have gotten before. Or at least some of it. And Mildred just came back from her trip to the bank, grocery store and hardware store in town and brought me some real orange juice. Mmmmm… That’s good stuff. I love that woman!! (Note from Mildred: what Jerry means by “real orange juice” is 100% juice. Most of the “juice” available here has sugar or sweeteners added. Of course we pay more for the brands from the US, but he’s worth it!)
But, as they say, the show must go on. We recorded the HRGS Update on schedule Tuesday morning, but this is my first chance to get it processed and uploaded. It starts out with fun stuff, but then takes a turn toward the serious, as you will hear when you listen to it.
We plan to leave for the U.S. this Sunday the 7th and arrive late Sunday night in Orlando. Emily Mitten’s parents are planning to pick us up at the airport, let us spend the night with them, and then drive us to Tampa on Monday. It will be great to finally meet them.
Sunday the 14th is BBI day at Oakwood Community Church in Tampa. Oakwood will be commissioning our co-workers at Bible Basics, Brett and Leanne Pruden. The people of Oakwood are pulling out all the stops for us, even making a mock radio studio on the platform so that Mildred and I can host a make believe Sunrise Serenade program. Part of the program will be a video of some interviews with a few of our listeners. Our roots are in Oakwood. That is where we first felt the call to full time missions and where we received our commissioning, so they are especially dear to us.
But Oakwood is no longer our home church because we were blessed to be part of the task force that launched a daughter church from Oakwood and that is now our home church. We plan to be at Candlewood Community Church on the morning of March 28 (Palm Sunday). Having helped to found Candlewood, you can only imagine how precious they are to us. Then, that night, we plan to be at Tampa Shores Baptist Church.
We have many more places to visit than we can list here, but those are a few of our earliest ones. Perhaps we will see you there, and maybe I’ll put more of our schedule into a future blog entry. Let’s listen to the HRGS Update now. Thanks for praying and may the Lord bless you richly.
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Day off or not, I’ll probably spend part of it finishing yesterday’s script and writing today’s. I sure don’t want to try to write three of them on Friday.