Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.17.06 in Uncategorized
(Guest blog by Peter R. Faulkner, the Director of North American Ministries for The Mailbox Club, Valdosta, GA. Peter is a long-time friend of Ray and Marlene and serves on the Board of Keep Believing Ministries.)Good Morning! I trust you had grand weekend and that you were able to spend time in God’s house on yester …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.13.06 in Uncategorized
Guest blog by Peter R. Faulkner, the Director of North American Ministries for The Mailbox Club, Valdosta, GA. Peter is a long-time friend of Ray and Marlene and serves on the Board of Keep Believing Ministries.
My next door neighbor passed away on yesterday. He was 81 and was quite active and invigorating until about six …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.5.06 in Uncategorized
I first met my friend Ray Pritchard over 15 years ago when I was an associate pastor at a church in the Chicago area. Our church was looking for a Senior Pastor and I heard through the grapevine that a potential candidate was looking us over. I had heard that he was from the South, that he was tall, and several people on …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.3.06 in Uncategorized
This will be the last weblog entry I will post for five weeks. We all need a vacation from time to time, and the time has come for me. In three weeks Josh and Leah will get married in Vermont. Between now and then I will be speaking at two Bible conferences. Two weeks after the wedding, we are traveling to Chicago for a wed …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.1.06 in Uncategorized
In January 2007 Marlene and I will be hosting a ten-day tour to Israel. When I was with Wood Kroll at Back to the Bible last month, he told me that he has been to Israel at least once every year since 1964. When I asked what tour operator he recommended, he immediately replied, “Maranatha Tours in Phoenix.” After talking wi …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.29.06 in Uncategorized
It took Mark a little over three days to make it home from China so by the time he arrived at the Birmingham Airport a few minutes before 9 AM, he was pretty tired. He had flown with his team from Beijing to Los Angeles where he and the others who are returning to China for a second year spent a day doing their initial orie …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.28.06 in Uncategorized
Peter Faulkner tells me that the Waffle House has the best chili anywhere. I don’t doubt it, but we’re eating breakfast with Mark, not lunch. By the way, did you know that since 1955, the Waffle House restaurants have served . . ..495,264,367 Waffles
957,041,599 Cups of Coffee
11,527,602,959.24 Eggs
22,217,4 …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.27.06 in Uncategorized
I am writing these words about 2 PM on Tuesday afternoon. That means it is 3 AM Wednesday in Beijing, China, which means that Mark is in the air, on the first leg of his long trip home. He and his teammates fly to Los Angeles where they will say goodbye after spending a year teaching English in China. At some point tomorrow …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.26.06 in Uncategorized
Mark comes home from China in three days. What a happy day that will be.A few days ago I wrote an entry called Between Trapezes. Today I received an email from Gail Blanke who has a website and a book called Between Trapezes. She sums up her message up this way: The mission of my book is to enable people to know that the “i …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.25.06 in Uncategorized
Here are the four messages I preached at the MEF Bible Conference in Colorado Springs last week:Monday seminar: Praying For Your Prodigal
Tuesday night: God’s Freedom
Thursday night: If I Believe, Why Do I Doubt?
Friday morning: How to Help a CavemanOn Thursday afternoon Marlene and I led a seminar on forgiveness. You …