Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.3.07 in Personal, Travel
Tonight we are staying with Grant and Fern Brown at their home in Medford, Wisconsin. For the record, Medford is a beautiful little town in north central Wisconsin, about six hours north of Chicago. To get here we drove from Chicago to Rockford to Madison to Stevens Point to Wassau where you head west until you hit Highway …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.1.07 in Personal, Travel
This morning Marlene and I are driving to Chicago to begin our last major trip of the year. On Friday night we have a Keep Believing board meeting in Chicago, then we drive to Westboro, Wisconsin where I’m speaking on Sunday morning at Woodland Community Church and then taking part in Pastor Grant Brown’s ordina …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.29.07 in Travel
This morning one of the pastors at Grand Ledge told me about a website called Sleeping in Airports. The site rates various airports on how comfortable they are if you have an layover and have to take a nap. Readers rate various airports worldwide, offering comments and voting for the best and the worst. Readers have voted S …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.22.07 in Personal, Travel
10:39 AM Albany (NY) AirportIt’s Monday morning and we’re on our way home to Tupelo after a fantastic couples conference at Word of Life. Marlene and I were both nervous going into it—no, that’s not true—I was nervous, she wasn’t, she told me it would go fine, and it did. As we were preparing, it o …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.19.07 in Personal, Preaching, Travel
I am writing this note from our room at Word of Life Inn in Schroon Lake, New York. Marlene and I arrived this afternoon after two bumpy flights from Tupelo to Atlanta to Albany. On the drive to the Inn we noted the spectacular fall colors—brown, burnt orange, rust, red, maroon, yellow, cinnamon—covering the trees on both …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.9.07 in Churches, Keep Believing Ministries, Travel
A few random thoughts on why we do what we do . . .1) We are the middle of ten straight Sundays when I will be away from Tupelo. So far on consecutive Sundays I’ve been in Chicago, Normal, IL, Durango, CO, Thailand (two Sundays), and Los Angeles. Starting this Sunday it will be Reno, NV, Schroon Lake, NY, Grand Ledge, …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.6.07 in Churches, Preaching, Travel
This morning I met with these men at Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. After eating breakfast together, we spent 2 1/2 hours talking about preaching. In the photograph the man to my immediate right (in the striped shirt) is Pastor H. B. Charles, Jr. It was at his invitation that I came to Los Angeles this …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.4.07 in Churches, Preaching, Travel, Uncategorized
This Sunday I’m preaching at Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California where H. B. Charles, Jr. is the pastor. He is one of my favorite pastors in America and has been for several years. I say that even though we have never met in person. Back when I was pastoring in Oak Park, he somehow found me …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.2.07 in Travel
10:24 AM PDTSan Francisco AirportWe made it back to the USA and now are waiting for our flight to Memphis and then the flight to Tupelo. We left Bangkok about 18 hours ago and will be home in about 8 more hours. We are tired but very happy to be back in the United States. Few things in life are as sweet as when the immigrat …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.2.07 in Travel
By the time you read this, we will be somewhere in the air over the Pacific Ocean. We leave Thailand on Tuesday at 6 AM, which is 6 PM Monday in Tupelo. So with the time change and the 28-30 travel time, we should be somewhere in the air when you read this entry.Let me add one final note about our trip. On Sunday I preached …
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