We have had a wonderful, busy spring. The annual Preaching Conference was a great challenge with many, many good results. I think we saw a good number of life-changing decisions. My counseling has been enjoyable. Please put the dates of April 26-29 aside for next year's meetings. We have asked Dr. Don Green from Lansing, Michigan; Dr. Wilbert Unger from Ontario, Canada; Dr. R. B. Ouellette from Bridgeport, Michigan; and Dr. Rodger Bottrell from Lyons, New York, to preach in 2010.
We are excited that my son-in-law Don Whitecar has answered the call to go to Belize in Central America as a missionary. He, our daughter Debbie, and their three children will start deputation in one year and plan to arrive in Belize a year and a half later. Our church loves them, and they will be sorely missed; however, we have known for years that God was calling them elsewhere, so it's exciting to know where. He plans to start a church in Belize City and a school shortly thereafter. We as a church are looking forward to helping.
Vandals burned our pavilion to the ground recently. It was very nice with a full kitchen and bathrooms, etc. The men of the church built it originally, but we will use the insurance money to have it re-built professionally.
Dr. Wilbert Unger preached for our college graduation May 14. He is always soul stirring and a blessing. I praise God for his friendship.
It is more thrilling all the time to see our graduates going out into the fields all around the world. One hundred eighty were able to come to our conference, and there are hundreds more in God's service. I never realized when we started Fairhaven Baptist College in 1977 the impact it would have. After 33 years, though, pastors, assistant pastors, missionaries, evangelists, and Christian school teachers have been continually sowing, and there is a wonderful harvest.
Like most of the country we have had a very cold, snowy winter. On Christmas Sunday we experienced a serious snowstorm with the temperature not reaching 0°, and wind chills of -40°, yet we saw over 200 visitors in our auditorium to hear...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Mrs. Ellen Leslie, our ladies' dorm supervisor for many years, died Friday, March 13, around 1:30 p.m. Please pray for comfort for her family and the girls in the dormitory. Also pray that the Lord would be glorified through our responses to His...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
We have had a wonderful fall. We've seen hundreds of first-time visitors and dozens of salvation decisions. As you know, each person's profession has its own wonderful story. All of us are keeping busy making follow-up visits and discipling new...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
God has blessed wonderfully this spring. The Lord was especially good to us during our annual Preaching Conference with His men being used in a mighty way. The congregational singing was uplifting, and all the speakers truly extraordinary. As...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
God gave us the most wonderful Christmas season in my memory. It is exciting to have the kids who grew up here come home for the holidays and to hear of how God is blessing their ministries across the country. Everything seems to slow down at this...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
God has blessed again in our fall campaign as He has in recent years. We had many visitors with a good number trusting Christ as their Savior and an average of 2,271 riding our buses. We are thankful that with declining church attendances being...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
We had a truly wonderful, Spirit-filled conference with many decisions made. All the preachers were used of God. Pastors and their people came from all over America; and our dining room was packed full of preachers and their wives, as was the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
PREACHING CONFERENCE NEW 58,000 SQ. FT. BUILDING COMPLETEWe are excited for all of our guests to see and use our new multi-purpose building. We want the preaching of God's Word to be the highlight of the week; however, the conference was never...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
God has showered His blessing upon Fairhaven Baptist Church in recent months starting with our 23-day revival in July. We prayed that our congregation would move ahead spiritually by it, and our prayers were answered. The majority of our...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
