As most of you probably know, John and I are very heavily involved in our prison ministy at our church. John goes to The Federal Medical Prison here in Springfield and he goes to the processing facility in at Fulton. We both go to a women's facility outside of Oklahoma City called Mabel Bassett every month that has a fifth Sunday and then we go to a women's facility in Newport, AK called McPherson. We just came off of a wonderful trip to Mable Bassett. We had one saved--Praise the Lord! and who knows how many seeds were planted. We truly love those women and the experiences that we have with them is amazing. Several of the ladies are faithful in our services everytime we go and they have really become friends. We look forward to seeing them and hearing how they are doing and the different ministeries that God has allowed them to be involved in even where they are at. We always come home refreshed and very blessed. When we go to Mabel Bassett, we leave on Saturday afternoon and spend the night in OKC then get up about 4:00 in the morning to get ready to go to breakfast and be at the prison at 7:30 to be processed and in our place by 8:00. We have 3 services, one at 8:00, one at 2:00 and one at 6:00. We leave around 8:00pm from the prison and drive to a fast food place to change our clothes, get a bite to eat and get on the road to head home all while shouting and rejoicing about God's Goodness and Grace! We normally pick up our kids at my mom's and are home around 2:30 in the morning Monday morning then John gets up and goes to work. It is a rough Monday morning for him but we wouldn't change it for the world!
I Timothy 1:12 says "And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry:" I do thank God that He has allowed up to be a part of such a wonderful ministry at Wilson Creek Baptist Church!
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