Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.9.10 in Keep Believing Ministries, Personal
This morning I found this very encouraging comment on the weblog. It sums up why we call our ministry “Keep Believing.” And it emphasizes that we all have to help each other out. Sometimes your faith will be stronger than mine, and I’ll need your faith to help me stay strong. Sometimes my faith may be stronger, and you can “…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.7.10 in Internet/Blogging, Keep Believing Ministries, Personal
Do you Facebook?If you are reading this, the answer is probably yes, and since when did “Facebook” become a verb anyway? The answer is, since Facebook more or less took over the online world.Don’t believe me? Check out these numbers from the official Facebook Statistics Page:400 million users worldwide.50% of active users log on e…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.28.10 in Personal, Travel
A few random thoughts . . .*If you go to Red Robin in Portland, you should order a hamburger, not clam chowder. So says Program Manager Janet Kerns who told me they have much better clam chowder in Cannon Beach. She’s right.*Clay Crosse is awesome. Terrific guy, wonderful talent, great heart for God. He really brought it tonight when he sang …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.24.10 in Personal, Prayer
I have no idea how many prayers I’ve prayed in my life. Probably the most meaningful prayers have come in moments of great personal need. There are prayers of worship, praise, confession, thanksgiving and intercession. Here are a few prayers that have changed my life in various ways. Jesus, if you are real, come into my life.I prayed th…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.8.10 in Personal
Someone asked if all four of the Pritchard brothers came to the reunion. The answer, happily, is yes. We were all there. Andy is the oldest. Then me. Then Alan. Then Ron.We hadn’t all been together in a few years, life being the way it is. But the fun part was, when we got together, it was just like we had seen each other last week. …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.8.10 in Personal
Here’s something else I learned at the family reunion. I’m an American mutt.That phrase isn’t original with me. I heard it quite a few years ago while listening to an NPR interview where one woman, describing her family background, called herself “an American mutt.” She then explained by saying, “You know, a litt…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.13.10 in Personal, Travel
Late yesterday Marlene and I returned from a brief vacation trip to Charleston, South Carolina. Early this morning a friend emailed saying she and her husband are heading to Charleston next week, and did I have any recommendations? Well, yes I do. Charleston struck us as a terrific town to visit, a place redolent with the fragrance of history infus…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.24.10 in Pastors, Personal
The word arrived via email from a friend that Don Gerig died last night. I felt glad and sad when I heard the news, glad for Don and sad for the rest of us. Not quite a year ago Don started a blog called Gerig’s Musings detailing his journey through brain cancer treatment. If you read the entries, you get a good sense of how a Christian fac…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.10.10 in An Anchor for the Soul, Books, Marriage and the Family, Personal
Odds and ends, a little of this and a little of that . . . *Just got off the phone with Ernie Schulz who said they just got a ton of new snow in Chicago. Ernie runs our Anchor Book Depot, which means that when we ship boxes of An Anchor for the Soul, Ernie is the one who actually makes the mailing labels, goes to the warehouse where we store the bo…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.23.10 in Keep Believing Ministries, Missions, Personal, Travel, Tupelo
*I’m writing this note at 11:45 PM on Friday night. In just a few hours I’ll be on my way to the SIM Missionary Village in Sebring, Florida. It’s a lovely spot established for missionaries who have returned to the States after 30 or 40 or 50 years on the mission field. I’m the speaker for their Bible conference that starts o…
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