Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.14.11 in Churches, Travel
This morning Marlene and I are flying to Reno, Nevada for the Spring Bible Conference at Sierra Bible Church. This is our fourth time to visit this fine congregation. It all started almost ten years ago when I spoke for the Dallas Seminary Week at Mt. Hermon Bible Conference in California. Someone from the church in Reno heard me and invited me to …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.1.11 in Travel
Since our arrival on Wednesday evening Marlene and I have enjoyed our visit to New Brunswick Bible Institute. We came for the Spring Bible Conference that climaxes this afternoon with the annual commencement ceremony. This is my third visit to NBBI and Marlene’s second. Two years ago I spoke at the “Men for God” rally that took pl…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.29.11 in Personal, Travel
Last Saturday afternoon I arrived in Campbellsville, Kentucky to preach at a short revival meeting for Pastor Fred Miller and the good folks at Mt. Gilboa Baptist Church. It was an unusual event for me since I hardly ever speak at a revival meeting. I suppose I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve done that over the years. If you ar…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.3.11 in Travel
I’m on the road once again, this time flying to Rochester, New York. I confess that I didn’t really know where it was until I looked at the map yesterday. It’s on Lake Ontario in western New York, between Buffalo and Syracuse, and just across the lake from Toronto. To get there I’m flying from Tupelo to Memphis to Detroit to…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.19.10 in Second Coming, Travel, Word of Life
I’m writing this note in the Business Center across from Gate 64 at the Tampa airport. In about an hour, I’ll board a plane to fly home, thus ending my final trip of the year. This week I’ve had the privilege of spending four days teaching the book of Daniel to 200 eager students at Word of Life Bible Institute in Hudson, Flor…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.5.10 in Missions, Travel
Detroit AirportGate C 11I am writing this quick note before we board the plane for our flight to Montreal. We’re on our way to a tremendous conference called Missions Globales. We haven’t been to Montreal since 2007, a trip made forever memorable because I forgot our passports. Back then you could still enter Canada without a passport (…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.23.10 in China, Prayer, Travel
A few Saturday night thoughts . . . 1. After visiting three different Chinese house churches, we were impressed with their emphasis on prayer. In American churches, we pray and then we get down to business. In China prayer is their business. They pray together, they pray out loud, and they pray often. Peter Wang put it very simply, “When you …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.7.10 in Keep Believing Ministries, Travel, Word of Life
We leave in less than 18 hours.After months of prayer and planning, it’s finally time for us to travel to Korea and China. On Friday morning Marlene and I fly to Detroit where we will meet KBM board member Skip Olson who is going with us.This particular trip really started three years ago when our friends at Word of Life Korea asked if I…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.17.10 in Current Events, Travel, Tupelo
This morning we woke up at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. This grand old hotel has welcomed kings and queens, presidents and potentates over its storied 80-year history. This weekend several thousand eager conservative activists have gathered for the Values Voter Summit. Given the rise of the Tea Party movement and the upcoming midterm …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.21.10 in Travel, Word of Life
Seventy-seven years ago a young man named Percy Crawford started a camp on land just east of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. In the years that followed Pinebrook Bible Conference became one of the major stops on the Bible conference circuit in the 30s, 40s and 50s. Jack Wyrtzen preached here. Billy Graham met Cliff Barrows here. George Beverly Shea sa…
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