Conference President's Update

Mark Your Calendar (Dates are on the back of your "Conference Minutes")

Great Lakes Conference -Thursday, July 10, 2008

Camp Meeting 2008 -July 11-20, 2008

Evangelists -Dr. Paul Kaufman, Rev. Daniel Stetler

Singers -Daniel Edwards Family

Children's Workers -Gene and Angie Davis

NEW CONFERENCE WEB PAGE

www.biblemethodist.org

-Please e-mail the corrections and updates to me.

-If your church has its own web page, please let me know so that the link can be made from our church's list to your web page.

Revival Announcements

Greenville --- Youth Weekend Revival -February 29-March 2

-Saturday activities and afternoon service are planned.

-Rev. Joey Kretoski will be the speaker.

Concord --- Revival Services

-March 9-12 (Sunday through Wednesday)

-Rev. John Parker is to be the evangelist.

Please let me know what you have planned.

Conference President's Visits

Saundy and I ministered at the Greenville Church on January 20th. We enjoyed the fellowship of the Johnsons and their wonderful church family. The Greenville area has been struggling through some difficult economic setbacks. God has been faithful to the Greenville Bible Methodist Church family during these days and is giving spiritual victory! Byron Reynolds, one of the church laymen, has started his own business selling kitchen cabinets. I have been praying that God will pour out his blessings on this new, Christian business.

Trudy Kelley, who lived in the trailer by the tabernacle, passed away and her funeral was January 26, here at the Rock Lake Church. That was a wonderful Christian funeral!

Last weekend, we traveled to Westfield, Indiana, to speak at a restaurant couples meeting planned by the MOPS group that is lead by Roanna Lindahl. We stayed in the home of Rev. and Mrs. Monte Stetler and preached at Village Park on Sunday morning. That was exciting for us, since we got to see Valerie (Krohn) Gross and her family. Valerie grew up in our Dawn Valley Church. Leland and Roanna had us to their home for Sunday dinner. We are so proud of this young couple and their faithfulness to Jesus and music ministry. Sunday evening found us at our Ironwood Bible Methodist Church to share the evening message there. After service the church family shared an evening soup, sandwich and dessert carry-in. We spent the night at Bro. and Sis. Sam Lindahl's and enjoyed visiting with them. Kevin Robinson is leading the services and preaching at the present time.

God has blessed Rock Lake with a growing church family. We are doing the detailed work in preparation to build a new sanctuary on the existing chapel building. That is to begin in May as the Lord helps us.

Last night, with the winter storm, we cancelled prayer meeting. Today, the sun is trying to shine and the snow is hanging beautifully on the trees.

God bless you all.

Blake and Saundy Jones

Update on Logan Sankey from Melodie

"Hi, everyone. Here's the latest on Logan. The second pathology report from the biopsy revealed a fungal component mixed with the what-had-been infectious material behind and beside his eye.

Knowing this and seeing as how the week of steroids he just took didn't help the proptosis/eye bulging, as of today the Infectious Disease doctor has decided to "shift gears" and target the fungus that he apparently has in his ethmoid sinus extending into the orbit of the eye. She has put him on VERY expensive anti-fungal therapy for an indefinite amount of time. He starts that new medicine tomorrow; he is still taking the Vancomycin by PICC line at least until the middle of February. He is to be tested for tuberculosis, have a chest x-ray taken, and more blood drawn to pinpoint the kind of fungus present - all in the next few days.

The good news is that fungus is treatable, even though it is "slow to grow, slow to go". We do know that he has chronic sinusitis, nasal polyps - basically what the ENT called sinus disease. It could be the case that all of this caused the fungus to grow/develop even over a long period of time - we don't know how long.

The proptosis is beginning to cause Logan some pain - more than before. We are really in hopes that treating the fungus will allow the inflammation to recede, thus allowing the eye to fall back into its normal orbit.

But due to how the situation seems to be stabilizing at least for a couple weeks, Marc is planning to keep his commitment to Sea Breeze Camp 2008 in Hobe Sound, Florida as one of the main evangelists and he will be flying out a week from today. Jordan and Cameron are SO excited, because they get to go with him! Logan and I will stay here and "get better" - we hope and pray. We'll definitely be logging on to as many services as we possibly can.

Logan turns 9 a week from tomorrow - he's coming up with his plan to celebrate! Just so it includes being tied to an IV pole every few hours....

Thanks for your prayers for all of us.

Melodie