May 8th, 2009 6:48 a.m.

Greetings In Jesus Name

I pray you are having a wonderful Friday. The Lord is to be praised for all He has done, is doing, and what He is going to do in the coming days. What an exciting time to be serving the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. What a wonderful Saviour that He is. I bless and praise His Name today.

Surely none of you have got over what our Lord has done for you. The scriptures declare, "beware lest thou forget." We all must be careful to not take things for granted. We are responsible to carry on the truths of the Word of God to the next generation. May our Lord find each of us faithful.

Our trip took us to James Island on yesterday to see the first Baptist Church in America established by John Clarke. What a great patriot and preacher this man was. He came from England with "the faith" and continued spreading that as he started churches all over this area. What a blessing it was to worship in the church that he extablished back in the 1600's.

From there we went to another sight to see where other great baptist preachers have preached and contended for the faith. Sad to say apostasy has set in there like it has in many of the places. We were greeted by a "woman pastor" that made me feel not so much at home. I thank God for woman but it is not their role to be the pastor of a church. The scripture gives qualifications for this and no where do you find them qualified to pastor. We toured anyway and reminded ourselves that all it takes is one generation not passing on the truths of the scriptures and that is what you will have. May the Lord challenge us to be faithful.

Today I'm not sure where we are heading but I beieve it will have to do with Obadiah Holmes. I'm looking forward to all the Lord has in store for us.

I understand that there were several that went to the hanger last night and yesterday to work on the airplanes. I appreciate what the Lord is doing in raising up labourers to help to this type of work. There for sure is not a shortage of things for us to do. Thanks to all those that helped and thanks to Don Wright for his leadership there.

Brethren, continue to pray for the preacher that God would help me to be all He desires for me to be.

Pastor Todd Bell