Post your phone number on YouTube . . .

 . . . and you might get more than 5000 people calling you!!  This morning Beth was watching the Today Show and they had this guy on who said that he just wanted to connect with and help people.  Read the article here.  And apparently, he’s not the only one.  The reporter said that one guy had up to 150,000 people call him from multiple countries.

Now, here’s the point I think.  Baptism numbers for the SBC are way down.  A psychiatrist on the report said that one of the reasons why strangers are calling random people is that they are “looking for a connection or even lonely.”  My feeling is that if baptisms are down, then probably we as Baptists aren’t doing a great job of reaching out to people either ’cause we are scared or may even not know who to talk to or where to go.  Well, if these random people are receiving upwards of 200,000 phone calls, could that be possibly 200,000 people that need to hear about Jesus?

England Photos

Us at York Minster

Originally uploaded by willandbeth.

Hey everybody! We are starting to post our England pictures over at our Flickr page. Just click on this picture and it will get you started.

Home

Beth and I did make it home yesterday after spending the longest day ever in the Newark airport.  We will be adding pictures and stories during the next few weeks.  Right now, we are just trying to play catch up with both work, school, and sleep.

We’ve Arrived!!

Just wanted to drop a quick line and say Happy Resurrection Day!!  We finally arrived in England and have met all of Beth’s family.  Today, we started our travel around the area taking day trips here and there.  Will even got to play a few holes of golf!  We might try and post a picture or two, but we aren’t really sure if we can get it online.  Either way, we are taking lots of pictures to post when we get home.

We have had a lovely time so far.  Beth and her sister and mom have switched into full ‘English’ accent while Will is still trying to understand all that is said.  We will post more stories later.

Going to England??

So, right now, Beth and I are in TN preparing to go to England with her family to visit her grandparents and tour around.  Only problem is we should have already been there by now. 

Yesterday morning, we got up and printed up our boarding passes, loaded up the car, and got in line at the airport.  Only problem was that sometime in the few hours between our printing and arriving, the first leg of the flight was CANCELLED!  Bootleg.  Apparently there was some crazy high winds in Newark.  So, we came back home last night and now we will give it a go again today.

I don’t know how much internet we will have over there, but if we do, we will do our best to update our blog as we go.