The Dallas Baptist Association Multihousing Leadership Team had a great meeting on Friday morning. Fonda Koss had not been there for many months due to her surgery and her husband's Cancer surgery and all that followed. We saw some new faces as Pastor Simmons from Hillcrest Baptist Church and Richard and Adam Harris from Lawson Road BC were there too. It is always amazing to me how God brings together the group each month He determines to be there. We had a great time of discovering from each other some great ideas and resources to use in the ministries. We talked about churches onsite also. We missed some of our regulars but know that things come up that just cannot be helped.

One thing we are going to pursue is a night meeting instead of the morning meeting. Maybe more folks could come since many do work during the day. If you read this blog, I would love to have your input into this idea.

Next month will be a special time as one of the kids I led to the Lord in my first apartment ministry in 1986, who is not a missionary with his family in Bangkok, Thailand, will be there to speak to us. We look forward to hearing from one whose life has been changed because someone went to him instead of expecting him to come to a local church already established.

Today was a VERY special day for me. I am in Houston to meet with the Multihousing Ministry Team. It just so happens that one of the first converts from my first apartment ministry 24 years ago is home on leave from Bangkok, Thailand and is furloughing in Houston. When I got to my hotel John, his wife Ruth and their children Timothy and Hannah met me there. It was a wonderful reunion. It is so amazing to think that 24 years ago John did not even know the Lord and now he and his family have been missionaries in Thailand for many years now. I remember that, when he first found the Lord, we could not shut him up. He told everyone everywhere about his new found Friend. Now he is half way around the world doing the same thing. Time has not changed a thing in our relationship. It is still as wonderful as it was then. The only thing that is different is that we don't get to spend as much time together as we once did. What a thrill it is to be able to see some of the fruit God has produced through His awesome way of using us to increase His territory. Praise His name!

Today was another great day in the life of reaching out to another apartment community. This one only has 72 apartments but there are lots of kids and Moms to minister to. New Millennium Baptist Church will be sponsoring this work. They will begin with a Resident Interest Survey to determine what the residents may have a desire to do. After this information is compiled and the church teams are put in place the relationship building will begin. The apartment manager is very open and has already talked about giving the pastor's wife a key so they can come and go as they need to in order to serve. There will be a Summer Lunch Program provided by Central Dallas Ministries. They will provide the lunches and New Millennium will serve them, along with volunteer residents. There will also be some kind of Backyard Bible Club event each day after the lunch so the kids will hear about Jesus all summer long. This looks like a great beginning and we are hoping many residents find Christ as Savior and follow on to becoming disciple making disciples themselves.