Happy Memorial Day!

We had a great Memorial Day service at Victory Baptist Church! Our attendance is increasing for both Sunday School and Morning Worship, but the great thing was that a young lady was baptized Sunday! We had a God-honoring patriotic service, where our servicemen were honored and the national anthem played. For all our problems, we still live in the greatest nation on Earth. If it stops be so, it is because we failed to do something about it! Anyway, we hope your Memorial Day was a great one! No pictures this time...we haven't taken any recently!

More Pictures

Some more pictures for you...enjoy!

Phoebe on the way back from Tennessee

Victory Baptist Graduation Party

Well, if you've never seen our back yard...

Praise The Lord!

We thank the Lord for all his blessings He has given us this week. I found that my new schedule at Comcast is the one we were praying for and starts this coming Monday! This will be a blessing to our family, as it gives us a more normalized schedule and will allow us to help more in the church and our Sunday School class.

I want to thank the Lord for the country we live in and for our soldiers who fight for us. We live in a nation that is far from the Lord, but not lost. I believe that we need to stand as Christians and fight for our rights, especially today. We cannot just sit by and allow the nation die while we wait for Jesus to return. I expect Him to come back any time; but what if He does not come back during this generation and we pass a destroyed nation on to our children because we did nothing?!? Politics is not the answer, of course, but we do still live in this nation and should be the Americans and patriots God expects us to be!

Right now we live in a nation that is shifting from Humanism to Nature Worship! If you do not believe this, look at the rising oil prices and all that is being done in the name of "Global Hoax, er, Warming"! We are allowing the enviro-wackos take over the policies of the nation and cause our lives to be miserable. Do you know why? Because they are willing to stand up for what they believe in (however wrong it may be), while Christians (and conservatives in general) sit around and complain! It takes two minutes to pop up Internet Explorer and email your Senator and to encourage your friends to do the same! How far is this going to go before we wake up and actually do something about it?!? Ask yourself that question...and the following...

1. Do I want the government regulating my thermostat?
2. Do I want to be paying 5.00, 6.00, 7.00/gal of gasoline in the future?
3. Do I want my heating bill to go up 300.00/yr because of a Cap and Trade System?
4. Is it really that bad to misplace a few caribou so we can get our own resources?
5. Why do we buy oil from people who hate us?

I think these are valid questions, because they have been brought up by our three candidates for the presidency (except 4 and 5). We have to do something folks...how far does it have to go before you do...?

Thank You To All!

We had a good, but tiring time in Tennessee and hit the ground running again when we got back to Maryland! Sometimes you can still be tired and have a good time, but it is good to have a couple of days to relax mid-week.

I was given the opportunity to preach last Sunday and the church gave us an ice cream social to celebrate my graduation. I want to thank everyone at Victory Baptist Church for their love and support for our family. We have been greatly blessed by helping in this church and look forward to the upcoming months (and maybe years), as the Lord allows. We really do not know how long God wants us at Victory, but we have a feeling that it will be a while yet. The Lord Jesus did not start His ministry until He was thirty years old, and I agree that most believers need to help in a church first, then start their own ministry. Not everyone can pastor a church right off the starting block! We also believe in leaving people behind to take up where you left off (aka: Teaching Others Also). I am not leaving Victory without training someone to take up the music and carry on from there; it is not biblical to do anything else!

I would like to thank everyone too who was praying for my upcoming schedule change with Comcast. As of right now, I am going to a Tues-Sat 7:30am-4:30pm shift, which is awesome! This will allow us to do so much more in the church and get some rest during the week! Having a day shift will allow for us to go to nursing home services once in a while and actually be at Sunday School gatherings. It may open up some other things in the future as well. This shift will take effect on 05/25/08; please continue praying that all continues as planned.

Master's Graduation!

After four long years, I was finally able to walk for my Master of Ministry degree. I thought that it took longer to become a Master of the Ministry, and that it did not come from academic studies, but oh well. I told some other folks, at least I am not a Master of the Divinity, at this point. The world would be in lots and lots of trouble. Borderline heresy aside, we are back from our trip to Knoxville, TN.

We arrived on Saturday Evening and stayed with Bob and Joyce Westervelt until Wednesday Morning. The entire trip was busy, tiring, but very worthwhile. We got to visit with many friends (very briefly most of the time), here some great messages, and graduate (which is the reason we went down!). God has truly blessed us with some good friends that we hope to keep for a long, long time. Here are some pictures from the trip. Thanks for looking!

Contemplating the meaning of mulch...

My wonderful, supportive wife

Bob, Joyce, Phoebe, and Myself at their house

Graduation Video

As Promised...

Recently we were in Knoxville, TN for a brief visit, and I was confronted by a few friends about updating the blog. Well, here we go again! Now that I know people read this blog, we will keep it regularly updated. Sorry for the huge gap in Bussard history and thank you for keeping up with us! Here are some new posts, as promised!