Note from Whittier, CA

So today we are staying with some friends of my family in Whittier. This is good, since we need to be close to home to go back and forth and bag up perishable items for the fumigation tommorrow. I still have to pack for this weekend's trip.

Sunday's presentation at the Filipino-American Church of Irvine went well. They even let me know they voted on the budget and were pleased to become one of our partners! I enjoyed preaching and even performing special music for the service.

I did "Offering" by Third Day using their actual studio tracks on CD, minus Mac's lead vocal track. And since this song didn't have an acoustic guitar audible for most of it, I added my own live acoustic performance as well using my Epiphone Chet Atkins SST just like Mac used on the Come Together tour. So the sound we kept very "Third Day." But anyway, I was really excited to do it and people told me how much they enjoyed the song.

I'll be flying to Illinois Friday morning for my final appearance in this 7-week long tour of churches. We should be hearing decisions back from many of them in late November and early December. Pray God miraculously brings our support-raising process to completion by the end of the year. The family is still sick. Pray for Christine and Jojo to get over their illnesses soon.