Hello everyone.  I pray today finds you rejoicing in the goodness of our God.  Whatever we are going through, we can trust the He takes care of His children. Here’s what’s coming up this weekend.

You’re in for something different.  I am not going to be able to join you, so I have asked one of our own to speak in my place.  Linda and I have been part of BBT for just over twelve years now.  Occasionally we’ve heard him share a testimony or a few words in introduction to a particular son or theme for the day, but I don’t recall hearing him give a sermon.  I had the impression that he might want to, so I asked.

Don Potts will deliver the message this Sunday.  He has spoken to me in the past about his desire that we delve more deeply into the foundations of our theology, so I expect that you will gain a more complete understanding of some aspect of what we believe and why from what he has to say.  On the other hand, his method of accepting my invitation to speak was to hand me a couple of folded sheets the next week with the contents of his message written on them.  🙂 With time and tools at my disposal I might have interpreted that, but at that moment in the flurry of activity that is preparation for the day’s program, I just handed them back to him.  I trust that he has heard from the Lord and that what he brings to you will be from the Lord.

We’ll do our best to facilitate our usual accommodations, but given my schedule this week we may not have everything in place that we usually do.  Please bear with us.

Pray for each other and encourage each other.  Pray for Debra and her family as she has become ill.  I don’t think that made it into the prayer requests from last Sunday.  I hear that April is recovering.  Tim and Cindy were back with us, but Tim is still in some pain.  If I understood correctly, Priscilla has another few days before she will learn whether she needs surgery for that broken elbow.

I just got off the phone with Shelly.  She was taken to the hospital today with severe breathing difficulty.  They have told her she has congestive heart failure.  She has been admitted and they have told her they will keep her for 24-48 hours.  They said they do not want to let her go without the results from the Covid test though she has no other symptoms.  This incident may have been precipitated by missing her medications, but she is concerned by the number of blood tests they are doing.  That is all I know at the moment.

Love y’all!  I’ll miss you this Sunday.

Larry