My wife, Bonnie, and 55 folks from our church family drove 4 hours to Berlin, NJ to attend the 3rd N.E. Vision Summit held at Solid Rock Baptist Church. It was an added plus to go there right after attending our own Camp Meeting the week previous. We were all spiritually ready for more great preaching in NJ.

The Clark family and members of SRBC blessed our heart in so many ways. They are all so giving, loving, and caring servants of the Lord Jesus Christ! They took care of every need imaginable and then showered all of us with so much more! Praise the Lord for this wonderful church family.

The preaching was holy Spirit led. Each and every message and service dealt with us by God in the areas of personal convictions, courage, consecration, complacency, focus back to the Lord Jesus Christ, humility, God's ability, sin, service, and so much more. Words can not describe the filling of my cup during the last three days.

Every message was GREAT, however two messages in particular stand out in my heart right now. Both of them were preached by Pastor Doug Fisher. One dealt with the topic of "Keeping Rank" and the second dealt with the topic of "Humility". WOW!

The music was all Christ honoring and uplifting! Thank the Lord for old fashioned Spirit led music. All I can say is again, WOW!

The last day of the conference we filled 15 buses to the max and drove into Philadelphia to the green in front of Independence Hall and sang hymns, patriotic songs, quoted scriptures and handed out 1,oo0's of tracts and John and Romans. One 19 year old was saved that I am personally aware of and who knows how many more souls will be birthed into the kingdom of God as a result of the few hours in Philadelphia that day. Again, it was a WOW experience.

God ministered to me personally so much during these two back to back meetings (Camp Meeting and N.E .Vision Summit) and I am so grateful to my God and Saviour Jesus Christ for ministering to me, my wife, my kids, my grandkids, and my church family! THANK YOU LORD!

MY LOVELY BRIDE OF 41 YEARS!

Bonnie and I were able to take a few days after the camp meeting to get away for our 41st anniversary. What a joy to spend some time together for a couple days. Today we went into Boston and walked around the Science Museum. Enjoyable to say the least. One of the exhibits was a 3D film of the ocean area around South Africa (see us in our 3D glasses). Afterwards we went to Quincy Market for a late lunch. What a great time just walking hand in hand with my honey!

UPDATE July 10, 2011

Thought you all might like to see some pictures of my new grandbaby, Brady Kristopher Deschene born to my daughter, Tina on June 17th as well as some pictures taken just yesterday of the church fellowship hall and kitchen.

My wife spent 3 weeks in FL helping our daughter after the C-section for the birth of Brady. I sure missed her for those three weeks, but she was a great blessing and help to my daughter and her family in FL. It will be awhile before I too will be able to get my hands on the new baby and I can't wait to do so. He sure is a handsome baby!

While Bonnie was in FL I worked on completing the fellowship hall. My kids and grandkids worked many hours with me to get much cleaning done by carting much junk out to the dumpster and putting things away from all over the work site. Our church folks moved all the appliances and supplies from the old kitchen last Wednesday night and the final touch was completed by several of our ladies to set up the new kitchen. The fire marshal, building inspector and health official all gave their approvals and we are ready to use the new facilities for our camp meeting that starts today and runs from July 10-17. The health official said, "This is a first class kitchen, I wish all the kitchens in town looked as good as yours." THAT was a blessing to hear!

I will post some pictures of the camp meeting later next week (if I remember to do so).

SNOW! SNOW! and MORE SNOW!

Well, we have certainly been hammered with snow, ice, and sleet during the month of January. Our roofs on all the buildings at church had several TONS of snow and ice on them with ice dams causing MANY leaks inside the facility. We were able to contract a tree cutting company with a boom truck to help us clear the snow (I estimate over 10 ton worth) from the roofs. We began working at 7:30 AM and finally quit about 5:30 or so. I am extremely grateful for all the help we had today and they all worked very hard. Thanks to Ed Young, Isaac Raymond, Danny Dileo, Pastor Sparks, Rui Nascimento, Don Lee, Andrea Turrisi, Jared and Brandon Benson.

Fellowship Hall as of January 16, 2011

Hi all! Just wanted to post a brief update with a few more "before" and "after" pictures. In two short months the new fellowship hall has gone from an empty room to two completed toilet rooms and showers with ceramic tile an the floors and wall, ceilings installed everywhere, electrical wiring and lighting, steel support beams covered in wood, and just about all painted. Still to do yet is the ceramic tile in the main room, kitchen wiring and plumbing and the HVAC heat pumps installed. The remainder of this work will cost around $13K to $15K. PRAISE THE LORD!

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR PRAYING!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT AND WISH YOU ALL A VERY MERRY AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS! I AM TRULY BLESSED TO BE YOUR PASTOR!

THE LORD HAS BEEN VERY GRACIOUS TO FBBC THIS PAST YEAR WITH MANY FOLKS GETTING SAVED AND SEVERAL NEW FOLKS AND FAMILIES JOINING THE CHURCH. NEXT SUNDAY WE WILL BE HAVING SEVERAL FOLKS GETTING BAPTIZED AND ANOTHER FAMILY WILL BE JOINING THE CHURCH. PRAISE THE LORD!

WORK ON THE FELLOWSHIP HALL CONTINUES. BATHROOM TILE HAS BEEN INSTALLED AND GROUTED IN BOTH THE MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TOILET ROOMS AND A SHOWER WAS ALSO INSTALLED IN BOTH. THE ELECTRICAL WIRING FOR THE LIGHTING IS ALMOST COMPLETED. THE SPRINKLERS AND SMOKE DETECTORS AND FIRE ALARM INDICATORS WERE BEING DONE TODAY AND HOPEFULLY WILL BE COMPLETED BY WEEKS END.

DOORS AND HARDWARE HAVE BEEN HUNG AND THE STAINING PROCESS HAS BEGUN ON ALL THE DOORS AND WOOD ENCLOSED COLUMNS. THE BATHROOM FIXTURES SHOULD BE INSTALLED BY END OF NEXT WEEK. CERAMIC TILE WILL BE DONE THE FOLLOWING WEEK.

PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR THE $9,000.00 NEEDED TO INSTALL THE HVAC SYSTEM AS WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY WITHOUT IT. WE ARE HOPING THAT THE KITCHEN MAN AND THE PLUMBER WILL BE ABLE TO COME NEXT WEEK TO FINISH THE KITCHEN SOON TOO.

THANKS FOR YOUR CARE AND PRAYERS!

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