First Baptist Church - Bryant, Arkansas (blog)

We made it back from a wonderful mission trip. Wow! What a “rush” in every sense of that word. Friday was filled with travel and then preparation that night for Saturday’s Bible Day Camp. Saturday, we conducted the camp with about 40 children present. I taught the third graders (6 of them). I just feel in love with a little girl named Abby. I think the the Squires (James and Mildred) adopted a few grandchildren on the trip (particularly Mary). Our teens are just awesome. They worked hard and interacted well with the children. Friends in Faith was well represented, and they had done some great preparation work. I think it was the best mission trip we have had. Sunday, we had a worship service with Friends in Faith in the park where we conducted the camp. It was a great service with wonderful singing and preaching (if I say so myself). Stephen Lee and I preached. I think FBC needs to have an outside worship service sometime. It is a great experience. I also think we need to do a VBS in the park like we do with Friends in Faith. What do you all think? We also made some time for some fun. Some of us went to the River City Rascals baseball game Saturday night. Madison came home with foul ball. Maddie and Madison especially had a great time at the game (yes, the girls). We all went to the St. Louis Zoo Sunday afternoon. We had a great time and brought home a couple of penguins (David and Dalton–don’t ask). Soon, we will have more to share about the mission trip with pictures and testimonies. My wife and I took about 350 pictures. Nathan will have his hands full sifting through all of those. Some will be deleted (for obvious reasons–inside joke!).