What an honor to be part of commissioning two more missionary families to the work. Philip and Lori Bassham are leaving to raise support to go to Thailand. Scott and Melissa Newton are also leaving and Read more […]

In just a few hours David Lundy, Scott Lance, and I will get on a plane headed for Burkina Faso. We will be there to work with Missionary Keith Shumaker. I will be keeping you up to date on what is happening Read more […]

Dear Vision, I am very excited that we are a Bible church. We go from verse to verse. Today we will see the need to be always praying. Prayer is a great spiritual weapon. We desperately need the power Read more […]

Betty and I have had a wonderful time in Arequipa, Peru with the family and being part of the Pastor’s School. We leave later this afternoon to return home. We will be excited to be back where we belong. Read more […]

We are seated in the waiting area in Beijing, China ready to board a plane that will take us back to Newark, New Jersey and then on to Atlanta. It will take about 24 hours to get home. That counts the Read more […]

They take off their shoes as they enter the church building and put on slippers. If you want to know how many are there count the shoes and divide by 2. They ran out of slippers and had to use plastic Read more […]

Dear Vision God bless each one of you very much today. I am here in China with Mark and Natasha Tolson. God is doing wonderful things here through Jake and Stephanie. It is so exciting to see Chinese Read more […]

Here is Mark T preaching in the English service. Not the best picture in the world because I took the picture with my Black Berry camera. The lighting was terrible. Mark did a great job. He and Natasha Read more […]

I want to wish a very special Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers who read this blog and especially to the moms at Vision. I am in China right now. That is a long ways from all of you and it is already Read more […]

Harbin Preaching from Austin Gardner on Vimeo.

McDonald’s with a little sign that I doubt most of you can read. We went late at night. It is open 24 hours a day. If you are my friend on facebook you can see more pictures and some of the people Read more […]

We have arrived in Harbin, China. It is beautiful weather here. Got a good night’s sleep after traveling for over 24 hours. We are 12 hours a head of you in time. So I am writing this at 11:38 AM and it Read more […]

I went to bed last night thinking about getting back to Alpharetta and Vision Baptist. I was thinking of all that God is doing with us and how He is working and got myself so worked up that I didn’t get Read more […]

Today was a wonderful family day. To be honest we didn’t do much more than be together. We toured the advances in the city, ate lunch together, played with the kids, watched a movie together, etc. Just Read more […]

Betty and I are having a wonderful time with 5 of our grandchildren and 2 of our children. The other half are back in the states but this is a very unusual opportunity on our part to be free and with them Read more […]

Last year Rhonda Gibby came with us to Peru for the Pastor’s Conference. She saw how rushed everything was for us so Joe and Rhonda decided to pay for our trip down with skymiles. All Betty and I had to Read more […]

Betty has landed in Atlanta and will be home with in the hour or so. David, our son, is picking her up. I am in Houston and paid $50 to get home with a little buffer to get a shower and still get to church Read more […]

How can I say thank you! Betty and I are in Arequipa, Peru dealing with some family issues. Our daughter, Joy, is hurting and really needs your prayers. The men of our church gathered around the altar Read more […]

If anyone ever asks you what kind of sign that I would like to have for Vision Baptist Church here in Alpharetta you will be able to show them! I love this sign. This is the sign for Kevin and Beth White Read more […]

I spend quite a bit of time on the road. It is really nice when you have a host like Beth White. She is going to give birth any day and yet she has been careful to check on every detail to make my stay Read more […]

God is always so good to us! Things have been busy here as we talk, plan, and pray asking God to do great things in the work here in Cochabamba, Bolivia. God is greatly using the Kevin White family and Read more […]

We just got home from church at 1:16 AM. We left the house at 4:15 PM. I started teaching the leaders at a little after 5 until 6:30. Then at 7 we started the evening service. God moved and two people Read more […]

If you have been keeping up you know that Sam Paxin and I are in Bolivia with missionary Kevin White and missionary Jorge Montenegro. These men form one of the best teams that I have ever seen. They make Read more […]

God blessed us greatly on this trip. First it was a real privilege to travel with David Lundy and to strengthen our friendship. This was our first time to make a trip like this together and I got to know Read more […]

Tonight I preached my last message in Burkina Faso. The temperature was well into the 90s in the auditorium when I started. At 5:15 I began the men’s meeting and we talked about not being a taking Read more […]

I thought that I would update you on what I saw and heard today. We took a trip to an animal reserve. As mentioned in the other two posts you can see that we were charged by elephants, ate antelope, and Read more […]

This is a picture that gives the idea of what it looked like when up to 4 elephants charged our car. Keith has been a good host and we thank him for everything. Read more […]

For supper last night David Lundy and I ate antelope similar to the picture you see above. The other plate was warthog. We had a great time, the food was good, the fellowship was better and we were Read more […]

God was very good to us today. I was able to teach and preach for 4 hours this morning to about 12 people that came to learn about BE.DO.SERVE.TRAIN. We had a wonderful time in the Word of God. Then we Read more […]

David Lundy and I are here in Burkina Faso with our missionaries, Keith and Rebecca Shumaker. They have four wonderful children, Emily, Meredith, Issac, and Caleb. They have started 3 churches and God Read more […]

Our last day in Morocco was a lot of fun and great blessings. All told I guess that in three days I was teaching or preaching for about 12 hours. God has given us wonderful missionaries there. I thank Read more […]

I preached again last night to the little church here in Tangier. There are 2 Moroccan believers. The first night I preached from Acts 4 about the Persecution starting for the New Testament Church. The Read more […]

At the airport in Casablanca after getting through immigration and customs we were sitting in a restaurant waiting on our host Aaron to arrive. We watched as the people came by! After a while a bearded Read more […]

David Lundy and I are sitting in the airport in Atlanta on our way to New York City and on our way to Morocco to visit our friend Aaron. I would like to ask you to pray that we will be a blessing to the Read more […]

What a great evening at the Peru Bible College. Chris Waye from Victory Baptist Church and Pastor Derik Lawrence both gave their testimony at the services and well Pastor Lawrence preached. It was a Read more […]

The whole gang has arrived in Lima, Peru and we are at the Santa Cruz Hotel in Miraflores. We are on a trip to Arequipa for the Annual Pastor’s School. On this trip are Betty and I along with Chris Gardner Read more […]

Betty and I are still in Bridgeport and God is allowing us to be used of Him. I thank Him for the chance to preach and the chance to be with such wonderful people. On Thursday night I preached on “Now Read more […]

Lord willing, Ed Dunlop, will arrive to be with us tomorrow. We will be starting our Children’s Crusade. I want to ask you to be much in prayer that God would work and children will be saved. I hope Read more […]

By now many of you may know that a young lady in our church has experienced a tragedy in her family. Rachel B lost her brother yesterday. It was a tragic ending to life. I want to ask each of you to Read more […]

I am “fixin” to go play golf with the pastor and missionaries here at the conference at Grace Baptist Church in Bridgeport, WV. Now this is going to be embarrassing. I play a little and enjoy doing so Read more […]