Goodbye, Florida!

We have thoroughly enjoyed the last two months of ministering in FL churches.  It seems like just yesterday that we arrived in Starke, FL, for our traditional "first FL trip service" at Bradford Baptist Church (Pastor Rick Jackson), and today, we are headed to south GA for our last.  It is always a blessing and honor to travel with Dr. Bill and Mary Rice for this annual trip, and we look forward to our final service with them at Gospel Baptist Church in Claxton, GA, this Sunday.

On February 16, we began a week of revival meetings with Pastor Ledford Hodges and the folks at New Testament BC (Floral City, FL). Despite some sickness throughout the week, we had excellent nightly attendance and saw the Lord move in the tender hearts of the people.  The actual week of revival services ended Thursday night, and we began a BRR Conference on Marriage and the Home with Dr. Bill and his son Bro. Wil Rice and families with services on Friday night and Saturday morning.  The Rices preached the adult sessions while we conducted a children's meeting, and folks seemed to be very encouraged by the services.

On the following Sunday, we joined Dr. Bill and Mrs. Mary at Community BC (Bradenton, FL-Pastor Jesse Nicholson) for the morning services and Providence BC (Riverview, FL-Pastor Dave Goforth) for the evening service.  In both churches, we provided several music specials and showed the BRR deaf ministry promo video before Dr. Bill preached.  Folks were super kind and were genuinely interested in helping deaf young people continue to come to the Ranch free of charge.  We thank The Lord for their kindness and generosity!

This Sunday, we will be at Gospel BC (Claxton, GA-Pastor Mike Gay) for our last meeting with the Rices.  Since this is Brittany's home church, we are especially excited to see friends and family and to minister in the church.  After that, the Rices will head on a road trip out West, and we will be working on some trailer maintenance and then heading to VA for a couple of weeks of meetings before heading back to the Bill Rice Ranch for the Day of Champions youth outreach.