Day 8 Plus Home Again

The last day of these trips is the journey home. Everything went smooth until the majority of us got to Atlanta. The storms that hit Atlanta disrupted the air traffic all day and the flight that 34 of us were on was almost 3 hours late leaving. But all travelers returning to middle TN an southern KY made it to their home airport.

I thank everyone on the team for their willingness to jump in and get the job done whatever was required.

We accomplished our first mission and that was to start a church in Tonacatepeque! I pray that our work was pleasing to God and that otehr souls respond to the lessons that were taught.

Buddy

# Posted @ 12:29 AM on Sunday, March 16, 2008
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Day 7-Wrap up, rest up and pack up

The last full day in country is a time of R and R and F (Fellowship). The team members had 3 choices-tour a coffee processing plant, shopping at the mall, or chilling out at the hotel. From all reports each venue provided the activities needed and were enjoyed by all.

I joined the group touring the coffee plant. When you see John Thomas, Sue McPhereson or Annie Massey asking them about the taste test. This plant supplies its highest quality beans to Starbucks. It is clear that most countries do not require the same level of safety for visitors of places such as this. By the way this plant is a cooperative of 600 people and it is only plant in continuous operation since the revolution over 28 years ago.

Our dinner tonight was served at the Paradise restaurant. I ate the sea bass and it was excellent! (I was being good, so I balanced that out with a brownie and ice cream for dessert).

The best thing of the day was the fellowship with our teammates from Mount Juliet, Hendersonville, Franklin, KY, Brushy, Cobb County, GA, Sedalia, MO, and Valdosta, GA.

Our work here has been blessed by several veteran leaders. 8 people have been on every Spring trip since 2002-Donna Crisp, Kenny Page, Rose Kennedy, Phil Waggoner, Mark Crisp, Ronnie Travis, Dennis Buchanan, and Bill Staggs. Only the last 4 have been on all Spring trips we have taken to El Salvador. We now have congregations in San Augustin, San Francisco, Usulutan, Santa Elena and now, Tonacatepeque. We had 11 baptisms and ten or residents of Tonacatepeque. There is a congregation of the Lord's church in a place where there has not been one before. There are a number of people that have had Bible studies and are close to obeying the gospel. Elias, Jr. and Carlos, Jr. are staying a week longer to work with Victor and Enricky to follow up on the studies that were conducted.

All in all this was a very successful trip. A lot of good was done in the name of the Lord.

The last day is one of departure and travel. The last team should arrive home around midnight Nashville time.

I thank each team member for the work that has been done and the spirit in which it was undertaken.

Buddy

# Posted @ 11:38 PM on Friday, March 14, 2008
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Day 6- Finish the campaign

We planned to work the clinic only a half day today. We had enough meds to cover 150-200. We made the tough decision to only take the 100-125 left over from Wednesday. It is never easy going out to the line and telling the folks that there isn't enough medicine for them. Sigh.

This has been one of the best teams we have had in terms of pitching in. It seemed like everyone was jumping in and getting things done before being asked. Even our walk about went well.

I don't have campaign totals yet and hope to post them tomorrow night.

Our cooks out did themselves again today at lunch. Steak for everyone. We ate a little late as we wanted to get all the poeople thru the clinc before lunch.

After cleaning the compound we headed to the cneter of town where we have had services each night. The Alcalde wanted to make a presentation. He and his staff gave us all a label pin with the seal of El Salvador. We gave him team t-shirt and a lawn chair (as has been our tradition over the past few years. He was very gracious.

I'll post more tomorrow but with the campaign and it is late, this old puppy needs to hit the sack.

Buddy

# Posted @ 10:57 PM on Thursday, March 13, 2008
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Day 5

Wednesday is always a challenging day on these campaigns. We try to give folks the opportunity to try different jobs and that seems to happen about the time everything is working well.

We were a little discouraged yesterday as there had been only 2 baptisms thus far and one was a young lady from another congregation. David Shannon encouraged us by saying that Wednesday is always a big day for the campaigns. He was right this time also. We had 7 baptisms. God certainly gave us the increase today.

The picture included with this post is 2 women and 4 children. Notice that the 4 children are carrying bags with toys. These bags were made by a group coordinated by our Katrina Thomas. We gave out at least 100 this year. Katrina's mother lives in Kentucky and is on the mail route of Charles Harrison. Charles is on this trip and brought some more "Katrina toys".

Charles and Anita Harrison of Franklin, KY, have 4 children-2 boys and 2 girls. Their boys were adopted in El Salvador and their daughters were adopted in Korea. 28 years ago this month, they journeyed to war torn El Salvador to pick up their first son, Adam. 28 years later Charles returned to El Salvador to help spread the Word.

We continue to eat (too) well on this trip. At the end of the evening meal we baptized a young man that is taking dyalysis. We had to take special precautions to prevent injection of his port. After the main group had loaded the bus the mayor arrived and brought papusas and a chocolate drink. We couldn't offend the mayor, so we ate the papusas he brought. The Lord's work has been blessed by this man's assistance on the campaign. He facilitated the location for our clinic, our meeting place and a house for the Latin brothers and sisters to live.

Another day in paradise has come to an end and the next (and last in the field) begins shortly. We have just a short time to spread the Word here.

More tomorrow.

Buddy

# Posted @ 11:03 PM on Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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Day 4

Hump day! The week is flying by. Only a couple of more days in Tonaca, as the town's name has been shortened.

As Jack says "another day in paradise!" It was a good day in the clinic. The evangelistic team had a number of studies, but no baptisms or restorations today. But the seed is being planted, God gives the increase.

Today we sent a medical team to the schools to screen for the dentist at the request of the school director. We agreed to take 25 kids for each of the hald days we had left. As timing always goes on these trips, Instead of showing up just after lunch they showed up at 230. The dental team and their recruits did an excellent job getting these kids processed.

Our first baptism this week was a lady that was confined to a wheel chair. Derek Shrull, the young man that carried the handicapped man into the church building two years ago, assisted with this lady's baptism. We have the benefit of a swimming pool.

It is not unusual for some team members to get sick on these trips. We have had 2 go down thus far. Both are back ready and raring to go. Good docs, nurses, meds and rest got them back on their feet.

We had one lady who had a growth that needed to be tested for cancer. She didn't ahve the money to have the test run. It costs $10 here. It breaks your heart that she didn't have the $10 and then it makes you wonder why it costs so much back home. Needless to say she has the money to have the test run.

Sometime this week we treated a 94 year old sweetheart of a woman-picture at the top. She had spunk and great blood pressure. The elderly generally do down here. I was sitting at Rose's table when she came in the clinic so I just sat there. She kept directing her answers to me. I guess the scrubs fooled her. I am not a doctor but I slept in a Holiday Inn Express, Oh I guess that was the Hostal Plaza Antiqua, last night.

We are testing our flexibility in the clinis this week. One doc is helping the dentist pull teeth. We have a doc and a nurse filling prescriptions. Everyone is pulling together to make this a successful effort.

Our days start with breakfast at 5:30 and end with the singing about 10. A little cleanup and the day is done.

Speaking of clean up my roomies, Charles and Jim, would appreciate that I do that so I am going to call it a night.

# Posted @ 10:37 PM on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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Day 3

We ramped things up at the clinic today and evangelism. Praise the lord we baptised 2 women. A young women and one in her forties I would guess, confined to a wheelchair.

Today was hotter than yesterday and we had some casualities due to the heat, I think. Some were not able to go back in the afternoon and one was ill and needed some nausea mediince tonight. They will be fine tomorrow.

The mayor here is very gracious and generous with his resources. We have 5-7 docs and three nurses from local clinics helping. We have rearranged things and a orthosurgeon is helping in dental and other docs are specializing as needed.

We still haven't seen the patient we would like to see per day, things are crakning up and the line is getting a little longer each day. Still, I'd be surprised if we had 75-100 in the line at the maximum.

We have been able to keep the tradition of having our nightly singing even though we are staying at two hotels. We have the bus go to the larger hotel with those staying there and those wanting to sing. The van takes the non singing group to their hotel. At 10 the van picks up the singers and delivers them to their hotel.

2 days down and 3 to go on the campaign and we have lots to do before we leave. I guess I should get to it.

Buddy

# Posted @ 10:50 PM on Monday, March 10, 2008
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Day Two

Day 2's first assignment was to get the evangelistic workers in the field and get the clinic running. Both assigments were completed sucessfully.

It takes a lot of work by the team to get the pharmacy, eye glass hut, nurses, registration and dcotors all going. We were blessed with 4 local Docs and some folks the Alcalde (mayor)provided for translators and crowd control. That allowed some of our medical staff to help in the pharmacy and dental areas. Our dental tent doubled as a surgery room.

As always seems to happen we got things pulled together and running in not so long a time. before you knew it-docs were treating patients, writing scripts, eye doctor was issuing glasses, nurses screening and getting histories and complaints. The little children were being taught Bible stories.

Our biggest flow problem in the clinic is having enough translators to keep the nurses busy and then the doctors. We will get that pace picked up and the docs will keep up. The next thing will be pharmacy. We have some great experienced people there and they will keep up. "Stack 'em high and sell them cheap. I don't know how they do it." is a regular motto there.

I will get the counts from the different teams in the morning and thus will have a better feel for the evangelistic efforts, but they have been busy.

Services were in a building quite large in the middle of the town. (We have the clinic at park/sports center a little ways away). Nice big room. A little short on chairs, but a good space for children's classes and teen classes. A little bleed over on the sound from the teen class, but we will do fine.

Dinner was served at house a few blocks away. This is the same house that the translators and preachers are staying. WE are off to a great start in eating as well.

Things are going so well that it is scary. Weather good. Hotel good. Food good.

Some negatives are staying somewhere other than where the translators are and having the team split between two hotels. But flexiblity prefails with this group.

It is a little late and breakfast is served at 5:30 so I better close out this daily report.

Please continue to pray for this work and the safety of our team. Take care of our families at home.

Buddy

# Posted @ 11:22 PM on Sunday, March 9, 2008
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Day One End of Day

This has been a long day but a good one. When we traveled to the airport this morning in Nashville, the streets were ice covered. But we made it there 20 minutes before hand. That allowed us to organize ourselves for checking in and it went the smoothest it has ever gone. I think that one of the main reasons is that I had asked some folks to do some things I had been trying to do myself and as we frequently find there are many brethren who can do the job better than you can!

All of our flights were delayed today-departing and arriving. We arrived about an hour late in San Salvador but so did the smaller but dynamic team that went thru Miami. All that did was put us in the airport when Elizabeth arrived from Mexico.

Only one team member didn't make it today due to 8 inches of snow in Lexington, KY. He was willing but the airline was weak!

Hotel check in went well. A few room mix ups but some were because we made last minute changes. Hotel is nice. Can you say A/C and hot water for the shower?!? I guess everyone had some tonight. Of course, last year started out fine and we had electrical problems and water problems, so I am not counting on the entire week going this well. Lord's will.

Group dinner went well, initial meeting went well. We have a bunch of tired campaigners hitting the sack for a good nights rest. 5:15 am will come early in the morning but that is 3 hours later than this morning.

Tommorrow will be a tough day. Getting everything set up and going is always stressful. But this is a great team that has assembled to do the Lord's work.

Please pray for the campaign that many will be brought to Christ and that this team returns home safely.

Buddy

# Posted @ 10:11 PM on Saturday, March 8, 2008
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Day 1 T minus 4 hours

Well, it is time to leave my warm house and go into the 26 degree snowy cold weather to begin our journey South. We moved our meeting time forward 30 minutes to allow for the snowy roads. We head to 90 degree warmth all around.

I'll update you on our journey tonight. Lord willing.

Please pray for the work and our safety.

El Salvador Day T-2 for the big group

The team has begun its migration to El Salvador! Bill Staggs, Jack Farber and Jonathan Winchester all left on Monday to acquire meds. Dennis Buchanan (Buck), Ronnie Travis, Wendy Graham and Steven Kirby all left yesterday to acquire supplies and begin the prep of the meds. On Saturday 20 more from Mount Juliet will be heading down. We will hook with folks from Franklin, KY, Hendersonville, Brushy, Lexington KY, Ga, and MO making the total team from the States of 53.

Come back for more info later.

thx Buddy

# Posted @ 1:15 PM on Thursday, March 6, 2008
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The Plans and Sincere Request for Prayers

by David Shannon

This week about 25 from MJ will travel with other Christians from Centerville, Hendersonville, Memphis, Franklin, Kentucky, and Valdosta, Georgia to join about 40 Christians from Central America in the city of Tonocatepeque, El Salvador. This large group will form an evangelistic/medical team. They will set up a Medical Compound offering doctors, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists, nurses, and head scrubs (for lice) to residents at no cost. Simultaneously, an evangelistic effort will spread the Good News of Jesus and His church from house to house during the day and conclude with a gospel meeting each evening for the adults, and Bible classes for the youth and new converts. Each morning the team will begin with a devotional to fuel and focus them for the day. Another benefit is presented due to so many ministers and elders joining together; the opportunity to allow the preachers and their wives to have an hour of study together which serves the purpose of a brief lectureship each morning is great! The men and women have their own classes. The Primary Goal of this Trip: Lord willing we will plant a church in this town. Victor Bonilla will work along with Ethruin Rodriguez, a young graduate from the Bible school in Panama. Pray for many souls to be saved in this town, for a successful church plant, for Victor and Enrique, for compassionate medical benevolence, and for team safety, unity and spiritual growth.

# Posted @ 6:38 PM on Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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Day 8 Plus Home Again The last day of these trips is the journey home. Everything went smooth until the majority of us got to Atlanta. The storms that hit Atlanta disrupted the air traffic all day and the flight that 34 of us were on was almost 3 hours late leaving. But all travelers returning to middle TN an southern KY made it to their home airport. I thank everyone on the team for their willingness to jump in and get the job done whatever was required. We accomplished our first mission and that was to start a church in Tonacatepeque! I pray that our work was pleasing to God and that otehr souls respond to the lessons that were taught. Buddy # Posted @ 12:29 AM on Sunday, March 16, 2008 0 comments Day 7-Wrap up, rest up and pack up The last full day in country is a time of R and R and F (Fellowship). The team members had 3 choices-tour a coffee processing plant, shopping at the mall, or chilling out at the hotel. From all reports each venue provided the activities needed and were enjoyed by all. I joined the group touring the coffee plant. When you see John Thomas, Sue McPhereson or Annie Massey asking them about the taste test. This plant supplies its highest quality beans to Starbucks. It is clear that most countries do not require the same level of safety for visitors of places such as this. By the way this plant is a cooperative of 600 people and it is only plant in continuous operation since the revolution over 28 years ago. Our dinner tonight was served at the Paradise restaurant. I ate the sea bass and it was excellent! (I was being good, so I balanced that out with a brownie and ice cream for dessert). The best thing of the day was the fellowship with our teammates from Mount Juliet, Hendersonville, Franklin, KY, Brushy, Cobb County, GA, Sedalia, MO, and Valdosta, GA. Our work here has been blessed by several veteran leaders. 8 people have been on every Spring trip since 2002-Donna Crisp, Kenny Page, Rose Kennedy, Phil Waggoner, Mark Crisp, Ronnie Travis, Dennis Buchanan, and Bill Staggs. Only the last 4 have been on all Spring trips we have taken to El Salvador. We now have congregations in San Augustin, San Francisco, Usulutan, Santa Elena and now, Tonacatepeque. We had 11 baptisms and ten or residents of Tonacatepeque. There is a congregation of the Lord's church in a place where there has not been one before. There are a number of people that have had Bible studies and are close to obeying the gospel. Elias, Jr. and Carlos, Jr. are staying a week longer to work with Victor and Enricky to follow up on the studies that were conducted. All in all this was a very successful trip. A lot of good was done in the name of the Lord. The last day is one of departure and travel. The last team should arrive home around midnight Nashville time. I thank each team member for the work that has been done and the spirit in which it was undertaken. Buddy # Posted @ 11:38 PM on Friday, March 14, 2008 0 comments Day 6- Finish the campaign We planned to work the clinic only a half day today. We had enough meds to cover 150-200. We made the tough decision to only take the 100-125 left over from Wednesday. It is never easy going out to the line and telling the folks that there isn't enough medicine for them. Sigh. This has been one of the best teams we have had in terms of pitching in. It seemed like everyone was jumping in and getting things done before being asked. Even our walk about went well. I don't have campaign totals yet and hope to post them tomorrow night. Our cooks out did themselves again today at lunch. Steak for everyone. We ate a little late as we wanted to get all the poeople thru the clinc before lunch. After cleaning the compound we headed to the cneter of town where we have had services each night. The Alcalde wanted to make a presentation. He and his staff gave us all a label pin with the seal of El Salvador. We gave him team t-shirt and a lawn chair (as has been our tradition over the past few years. He was very gracious. I'll post more tomorrow but with the campaign and it is late, this old puppy needs to hit the sack. Buddy # Posted @ 10:57 PM on Thursday, March 13, 2008 1 comments Day 5 Wednesday is always a challenging day on these campaigns. We try to give folks the opportunity to try different jobs and that seems to happen about the time everything is working well. We were a little discouraged yesterday as there had been only 2 baptisms thus far and one was a young lady from another congregation. David Shannon encouraged us by saying that Wednesday is always a big day for the campaigns. He was right this time also. We had 7 baptisms. God certainly gave us the increase today. The picture included with this post is 2 women and 4 children. Notice that the 4 children are carrying bags with toys. These bags were made by a group coordinated by our Katrina Thomas. We gave out at least 100 this year. Katrina's mother lives in Kentucky and is on the mail route of Charles Harrison. Charles is on this trip and brought some more "Katrina toys". Charles and Anita Harrison of Franklin, KY, have 4 children-2 boys and 2 girls. Their boys were adopted in El Salvador and their daughters were adopted in Korea. 28 years ago this month, they journeyed to war torn El Salvador to pick up their first son, Adam. 28 years later Charles returned to El Salvador to help spread the Word. We continue to eat (too) well on this trip. At the end of the evening meal we baptized a young man that is taking dyalysis. We had to take special precautions to prevent injection of his port. After the main group had loaded the bus the mayor arrived and brought papusas and a chocolate drink. We couldn't offend the mayor, so we ate the papusas he brought. The Lord's work has been blessed by this man's assistance on the campaign. He facilitated the location for our clinic, our meeting place and a house for the Latin brothers and sisters to live. Another day in paradise has come to an end and the next (and last in the field) begins shortly. We have just a short time to spread the Word here. More tomorrow. Buddy # Posted @ 11:03 PM on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1 comments Day 4 Hump day! The week is flying by. Only a couple of more days in Tonaca, as the town's name has been shortened. As Jack says "another day in paradise!" It was a good day in the clinic. The evangelistic team had a number of studies, but no baptisms or restorations today. But the seed is being planted, God gives the increase. Today we sent a medical team to the schools to screen for the dentist at the request of the school director. We agreed to take 25 kids for each of the hald days we had left. As timing always goes on these trips, Instead of showing up just after lunch they showed up at 230. The dental team and their recruits did an excellent job getting these kids processed. Our first baptism this week was a lady that was confined to a wheel chair. Derek Shrull, the young man that carried the handicapped man into the church building two years ago, assisted with this lady's baptism. We have the benefit of a swimming pool. It is not unusual for some team members to get sick on these trips. We have had 2 go down thus far. Both are back ready and raring to go. Good docs, nurses, meds and rest got them back on their feet. We had one lady who had a growth that needed to be tested for cancer. She didn't ahve the money to have the test run. It costs $10 here. It breaks your heart that she didn't have the $10 and then it makes you wonder why it costs so much back home. Needless to say she has the money to have the test run. Sometime this week we treated a 94 year old sweetheart of a woman-picture at the top. She had spunk and great blood pressure. The elderly generally do down here. I was sitting at Rose's table when she came in the clinic so I just sat there. She kept directing her answers to me. I guess the scrubs fooled her. I am not a doctor but I slept in a Holiday Inn Express, Oh I guess that was the Hostal Plaza Antiqua, last night. We are testing our flexibility in the clinis this week. One doc is helping the dentist pull teeth. We have a doc and a nurse filling prescriptions. Everyone is pulling together to make this a successful effort. Our days start with breakfast at 5:30 and end with the singing about 10. A little cleanup and the day is done. Speaking of clean up my roomies, Charles and Jim, would appreciate that I do that so I am going to call it a night. # Posted @ 10:37 PM on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5 comments Day 3 We ramped things up at the clinic today and evangelism. Praise the lord we baptised 2 women. A young women and one in her forties I would guess, confined to a wheelchair. Today was hotter than yesterday and we had some casualities due to the heat, I think. Some were not able to go back in the afternoon and one was ill and needed some nausea mediince tonight. They will be fine tomorrow. The mayor here is very gracious and generous with his resources. We have 5-7 docs and three nurses from local clinics helping. We have rearranged things and a orthosurgeon is helping in dental and other docs are specializing as needed. We still haven't seen the patient we would like to see per day, things are crakning up and the line is getting a little longer each day. Still, I'd be surprised if we had 75-100 in the line at the maximum. We have been able to keep the tradition of having our nightly singing even though we are staying at two hotels. We have the bus go to the larger hotel with those staying there and those wanting to sing. The van takes the non singing group to their hotel. At 10 the van picks up the singers and delivers them to their hotel. 2 days down and 3 to go on the campaign and we have lots to do before we leave. I guess I should get to it. Buddy # Posted @ 10:50 PM on Monday, March 10, 2008 3 comments Day Two Day 2's first assignment was to get the evangelistic workers in the field and get the clinic running. Both assigments were completed sucessfully. It takes a lot of work by the team to get the pharmacy, eye glass hut, nurses, registration and dcotors all going. We were blessed with 4 local Docs and some folks the Alcalde (mayor)provided for translators and crowd control. That allowed some of our medical staff to help in the pharmacy and dental areas. Our dental tent doubled as a surgery room. As always seems to happen we got things pulled together and running in not so long a time. before you knew it-docs were treating patients, writing scripts, eye doctor was issuing glasses, nurses screening and getting histories and complaints. The little children were being taught Bible stories. Our biggest flow problem in the clinic is having enough translators to keep the nurses busy and then the doctors. We will get that pace picked up and the docs will keep up. The next thing will be pharmacy. We have some great experienced people there and they will keep up. "Stack 'em high and sell them cheap. I don't know how they do it." is a regular motto there. I will get the counts from the different teams in the morning and thus will have a better feel for the evangelistic efforts, but they have been busy. Services were in a building quite large in the middle of the town. (We have the clinic at park/sports center a little ways away). Nice big room. A little short on chairs, but a good space for children's classes and teen classes. A little bleed over on the sound from the teen class, but we will do fine. Dinner was served at house a few blocks away. This is the same house that the translators and preachers are staying. WE are off to a great start in eating as well. Things are going so well that it is scary. Weather good. Hotel good. Food good. Some negatives are staying somewhere other than where the translators are and having the team split between two hotels. But flexiblity prefails with this group. It is a little late and breakfast is served at 5:30 so I better close out this daily report. Please continue to pray for this work and the safety of our team. Take care of our families at home. Buddy # Posted @ 11:22 PM on Sunday, March 9, 2008 2 comments Day One End of Day This has been a long day but a good one. When we traveled to the airport this morning in Nashville, the streets were ice covered. But we made it there 20 minutes before hand. That allowed us to organize ourselves for checking in and it went the smoothest it has ever gone. I think that one of the main reasons is that I had asked some folks to do some things I had been trying to do myself and as we frequently find there are many brethren who can do the job better than you can! All of our flights were delayed today-departing and arriving. We arrived about an hour late in San Salvador but so did the smaller but dynamic team that went thru Miami. All that did was put us in the airport when Elizabeth arrived from Mexico. Only one team member didn't make it today due to 8 inches of snow in Lexington, KY. He was willing but the airline was weak! Hotel check in went well. A few room mix ups but some were because we made last minute changes. Hotel is nice. Can you say A/C and hot water for the shower?!? I guess everyone had some tonight. Of course, last year started out fine and we had electrical problems and water problems, so I am not counting on the entire week going this well. Lord's will. Group dinner went well, initial meeting went well. We have a bunch of tired campaigners hitting the sack for a good nights rest. 5:15 am will come early in the morning but that is 3 hours later than this morning. Tommorrow will be a tough day. Getting everything set up and going is always stressful. But this is a great team that has assembled to do the Lord's work. Please pray for the campaign that many will be brought to Christ and that this team returns home safely. Buddy # Posted @ 10:11 PM on Saturday, March 8, 2008 4 comments Day 1 T minus 4 hours Well, it is time to leave my warm house and go into the 26 degree snowy cold weather to begin our journey South. We moved our meeting time forward 30 minutes to allow for the snowy roads. We head to 90 degree warmth all around. I'll update you on our journey tonight. Lord willing. Please pray for the work and our safety. El Salvador Day T-2 for the big group The team has begun its migration to El Salvador! Bill Staggs, Jack Farber and Jonathan Winchester all left on Monday to acquire meds. Dennis Buchanan (Buck), Ronnie Travis, Wendy Graham and Steven Kirby all left yesterday to acquire supplies and begin the prep of the meds. On Saturday 20 more from Mount Juliet will be heading down. We will hook with folks from Franklin, KY, Hendersonville, Brushy, Lexington KY, Ga, and MO making the total team from the States of 53. Come back for more info later. thx Buddy # Posted @ 1:15 PM on Thursday, March 6, 2008 0 comments The Plans and Sincere Request for Prayers by David Shannon This week about 25 from MJ will travel with other Christians from Centerville, Hendersonville, Memphis, Franklin, Kentucky, and Valdosta, Georgia to join about 40 Christians from Central America in the city of Tonocatepeque, El Salvador. This large group will form an evangelistic/medical team. They will set up a Medical Compound offering doctors, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists, nurses, and head scrubs (for lice) to residents at no cost. Simultaneously, an evangelistic effort will spread the Good News of Jesus and His church from house to house during the day and conclude with a gospel meeting each evening for the adults, and Bible classes for the youth and new converts. Each morning the team will begin with a devotional to fuel and focus them for the day. Another benefit is presented due to so many ministers and elders joining together; the opportunity to allow the preachers and their wives to have an hour of study together which serves the purpose of a brief lectureship each morning is great! The men and women have their own classes. The Primary Goal of this Trip: Lord willing we will plant a church in this town. Victor Bonilla will work along with Ethruin Rodriguez, a young graduate from the Bible school in Panama. Pray for many souls to be saved in this town, for a successful church plant, for Victor and Enrique, for compassionate medical benevolence, and for team safety, unity and spiritual growth. # Posted @ 6:38 PM on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 0 comments	Mt. Juliet Church of Christ Physical Addrees: 1940 N. Mt. Juliet Road Mt. Juliet, TN 37122 Mailing Address: P.O.Box 248 Mt.Juliet, TN 37121-0248 (615)758-2274 Fax:615-754-2351 Email Worship Services: Sunday Early Worship: 8AM Sunday Bible Study: 9:15AM Sunday Late Worship: 10:15AM Night Worship: 6PM Wednesday Bible Study: 7PM Past Archives: March 2007 March 2008 March 2009 March 2010 March 2011 March 2012 March 2013 March 2014 March 2017