Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.29.08 in Travel
At the moment Marlene and I are in the Memphis airport waiting for our flight to Amsterdam where we will catch another flight to Prague, Czech Republic. There we will board a train for a 240-mile trip to Ostrava, near the Polish border. We’re traveling to the Czech Republic to take part in the Josiah Venture spring co …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.7.08 in Personal, Travel
Early Thursday morning—around 5 AM—we leave for Chicago. We are eating dinner that night with friends in Chicago, on Friday we have a home meeting in Oak Park, on Saturday we have a board meeting and a meeting for volunteers who are helping us “optimize” the sermons on the Keep believing website, on Sunday I’m preac …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.13.08 in Travel, Word of Life
I am writing this note from a rocking chair on Concourse A at Midway Airport in Chicago. Seventy-two hours ago we had just landed in Albany. During that time I gave ten lectures on Galatians, spoke on two other occasions, and we had dinner with Wayne and Ruthie Lewis and lunch with Mike and Betsi Calhoun. Plus it was col …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.10.08 in Travel, Word of Life
This morning—in about 18 minutes, in fact—Marlene and I are driving to Birmingham where we will catch a Southwest flight to Albany, NY where someone will pick us up and drive us 75 miles north to Pottersville, in the Adirondack Mountains, on the south end of Schroon Lake, where I will be teaching Galatians Tuesday-Thursda …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.5.08 in Travel
Yesterday during my morning message at the Pastors Conference in Oklahoma, I mentioned going “all in” for Jesus. Today the men gave me a CD from Kenny Rogers featuring his song “The Gambler.”I have been to a number of pastors conferences, but I’ve never met a more lively bunch than those guys in Oklahoma. They really …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.3.08 in Pastors, Travel
This morning I’m on my way to my first-ever speaking engagement in Oklahoma. About a year ago I received an email from Randy Wilson, pastor of Bethany Free Will Baptist Church in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (a suburb of Tulsa) asking if I would speak at the Oklahoma Free Will Baptist Pastors Conference. He became acquainte …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.26.08 in China, Travel
At this moment we are somewhere in the air over the Pacific Ocean on our way back to Chicago and then on to Memphis and then back to Tupelo. Total time from Shanghai to Tupelo is about 21 hours. We have had a wonderful time in China, and we have seen the Father’s hand at work in so many unexpected ways. If you wonder …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.24.08 in China, Travel
This morning I spoke to the English-language fellowship in Nanchang. They meet each Sunday morning at a hotel in the center of the city. Two years ago only 6-7 people attended. Now they usually draw 50-60 people. Most are Americans and most are English teachers serving with the English Language Institute of China. Some of …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.22.08 in China, Travel
Our time in Nanchang is coming quickly to an end. In the last two days we have toured the new campus of Blue Sky University, met “Billy” the waiban, and lit a few fireworks on the basketball court to celebrate the Lantern Festival. Here’s a slideshow of our last two days in Nanchang. There are 20 pictures in all. You …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.22.08 in China, Travel
So what’s it like in Nanchang? A friend who has been here for a while said that Nanchang isn’t like Beijing or Shanghai. Nanchang is the “real China.” It’s easy to tell the difference. Beijing and Shanghai are both enormous cities, with populations that rank among the largest in the world. In Beijing you h …
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