Long Delay!!!

I know, I know I've been negligent in posting.  You just can't believe my schedule since Pigeon Forge.  I apologize. it's just busy.

We got back from Pigeon Forge late Wednesday night.  I took off Friday, Masami's birthday, for Annandale, Va.  What a fantastic ministry.  I went in a day early, Saturday, so I could take over 100 folks through the Smithsonian.  I had the opportunity to spend an hour with them preparing them for what they were about to enter and what to look for.  On Facebook I shared with everyone that I was preparing a talk for this.  I literally spent over 30 hours while I was on vacation preparing the material.  All I used was the secular sources and showed what they really have versus what we see in the museum.  You see "Lucy" above.  Very sad to be honest.  Of the 100 plus that went through the museum with me at least 70-80 were between the age of 10 and 21.  Fantastic, praise God.  We were able to film a LOT of this.  I can't wait to get some of this in my talks.  We filmed a LOT of the exhibits as well as myself teaching through the museum.

Pray for wisdom on how we can use this film.  We were also able to film a lot of post tour interviews with the young folks.  One young lady summarized it very well.  She said that after hearing the presentation, going through the tour that everything changed for her.  She said, If you take away all of the signs in there and just look at the evidence it's like going through a creation museum in Washington, DC.  How cool is that!  She totally blessed me.  She also said that she was now going to take her friends through the museum on tours.  Now, she wasn't talking about her non-christian friends!  She told me that she was taking her Christian friends through because they were the ones asking those questions!!!  Praise God.  There were a number of the young folks who told me this.  In addition, Pastor Dirk is trying to set up a group that will be trained to start taking folks through the museum from their church.  it was so encouraging to see immediate change taking place with the folks.  That night I got to speak with the families again.  Huge responses. 

Sunday I spoke in the church again in the morning and evening. 

Monday I took another 50 folks through the Smithsonian again.  It was just unbelievable.  On this tour before we got in there I briefed them again on what to expect.  i shared with them about "Lucy" and gave them a lot of material that is contained in Dr. Menton's DVD, "Lucy: She's No Lady!".  On the tour while looking at the reconstruction of "Lucy" a volunteer for the museum came up to us excitedly.  He took a picture that from the top of the exhibit and showed our young folks an x-ray of a human female and told them how "Lucy" had exactly the same hips as a human.  This young lady then graciously asked him about a video she'd seen showing the bones of "Lucy" being ground down to make them "human" in appearance.  He said, I don't know anything about that video.  He then told how "Lucy" had human hand and feet.  Another young person asked how they knew that since they didn't find any hand or foot bones from the specimen "Lucy".  He responded, no, but they found some from her relatives.  He then asked, "Where are you guys from?"  They told him and he just disappeared.  How exciting!  I flew home late Monday night.

Tuesday - Friday I was in the office catching up.  I spoke in the Creation Museum on Thursday and Friday 4 times.  Had really encouraging responses again.

Saturday I flew out to Memphis, TN and drove to Corinth MS.  Another blessing.  Spoke Saturday night at a youth rally and the place was packed.  About 1100 children and parents came out.  Sold out of every pack that I took.  That's never happened.

Sunday's ministry was awesome as well.  The people were soooo hungry and soooo kind!  Pastor Dyer, Pastor Randy and their folks treated me so good.  What a blessed place.

On Monday morning had breakfast at "Abe's"!  The food and fellowship was awesome!  One of the owners attends the church that I spoke at.  They can cook some breakfast, check 'em out if you're in Corinth.  Then I went and spoke in the public, yes, you read it right, public school.  I spoke for an hour and fifteen minutes in both the middle school and the high school.  Keep in mind that it was voluntary for them to attend.  There are 440 youth in the middle school and all but 11 came into the assembly.   The high school was just as good.  Flew home late Monday night.

Tuesday caught the flight for England!

Wednesday arrived in England.  Rode to Manchester with Trevor, Maggie and Tom and spoke there that night.

The meeting was fantastic.  The put out as many chairs as they had and the place filled up.  There were only 4 empty seats in the whole church.  Fantastic.  We stayed with some super sweet folks that night, Eunace and Martin. What kind hosts!!

Thursday we took off for another place that I can't even remember the name of.  We drove across "the moors".  Beautiful scenery.

"The moors!"

We came back and stayed with Eunace and Martin again that night.

Friday we took off for Shefield.  I had the night off so I watched Tom speak that night.  We then went and stayed with another sweet lady, Diana.  She truly was a lady.  Gave us some fresh honey from her bee's.  Delicious!  Even got to eat some of the honeycomb.  I haven't done that for years.

Saturday we drove to Devon for the Truth4Youth conference.  I've been here the last three days and the meetings have been amazing.  They had 173 folks show up.  That's the most they've ever had.  They truly were focused in and payed attention.  I had so many conversations it's impossible to share them.  The number of young men and women who thanked me, genuinely, was so encouraging.  These youth were hungry.  I can't stress enough how much they genuinely appreciated the teaching.  You can know when someone is just giving empty flattery or when they truly cared.  This group is leaving today and there is another group called Young Bereans coming in.  Where we're holding these meetings is where the "Hounds of the Baskervilles" was said to have taken place.  It really is a very lovely part of the world.

All I can say is, life is busy!  I'm in my final two college courses to finish off my Bachelors degree.  That's taking a LOT of time, I can't believe the amount of reading there is in these two courses.  Your prayers are appreciated.  Stay bold.

Carl k.