Sunday was another great day at Blodgett St. Baptist Church. Six new believers were baptized into our fellowship including Kimberly Huett, (left - baptized by Dick Means) Desirey Lindley (right).

Josh (left) and Sarah (right)                

                    were baptized and remained in the baptistry to witness the baptism of two of their sons,

                                                           Ty (left) and Luke (right).         






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We want to welcome the newest member of our family into the world. Jayden Michael was born at 1:37pm on Dec. 11, 2009, 8lbs 2oz and 20" long. Thanks to all of you for your prayers and continued support for Katey and our family. Jayden is now home and doing great. Even though Jody and I don't seem old enough to have a grandson we are proud of Jayden and grateful to all of you for your encouagement and help.

God Bless All of our Church Family,
Bro. David, Jody, and Katey

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Sunday Morning was an exciting day in the Lord. We saw six people baptized and still have three to be baptized.

We baptized Josh and Sarah Asbury and two of their boys. Ty and Luke with the family looking on in the baptistry. Desirey Lindley was baptized by Bro. David into Christ's family. Dick Means baptized Kimberly Huett into the family of Christ at BSBC as well.

We want to welcome these new members to our family as we continue to praise God and serve Him until He comes to receive His Church.

Sunday, December 6th we we was God's hand at work in many ways. Following a tremendous worship service with a number of decisions for the Lord an Ordination Council convened and affirmed the selection of six new deacons. These new servant leaders were elected and ordained by the congregation Sunday evening followed by a fellowship "eatin meetin." New deacons from left to right are John Willmore (Alan Lacy, Deacon Chairman) Sam Christensen, Ruben Andrade, Eric Cook, Floyd Bevers, (Lavoy Schierholt, Vice Chairman) and Ted Lewis. We are grateful to God for providing these godly men to serve the Lord along side our staff and congregation.

Let me introduce you to our newest family members. Steven Willier trusted Christ as Savior and Lord and will be baptized soon. Pictured with his mom and dad (Amber and Mike) and his two little brothers, Mark and Matthew.

(Top Right) Desirey Lindley trusted Christ as her Savior and will be baptized as well. She is pictured with her children Lisa, James, and Henaesie. David had to work and is not pictured.

(Bottom) Nolie Hammond has become a member of our family and will be baptized with his sister (Sarah Asbury) and her husband and family.

(Not Pictured) Kimberly Huett has trusted Jesus and will be baptized into our fellowship also.

God continues to pour His abundant blessing out upon BSBC and our community. Praise Him for His Greatness!

What a precious family. The Asbury family will be baptiszed into the BSBC family very soon. Josh, Sarah, Ty and Luke Hammett and Masun have all trusted Christ as Savior and Lord and we will continue to pray for little Miley and know she will be raised in a Christ-centered home.

We want to welcome Joana Wells to our fellowship. You can see from the picture that she has many friends and family in our congregation already. Please pray for her and her family as we serve and worship the Lord together.

Congrats Again!

Welcome to the newest gradbaby in the Patteson household. Kipper and Traci honored Grandpa Terry and Granny Karen with a new little girl. Swayzee Kae (6lbs. 9oz. 18") joins Addysen Rae as the newest member of the Folmar family. (Granny Karen is hiding from the camera!)

Welcome to our newest family members. We are delighted to have George and Charlotte Brewer and Courtney Good join our fellowship. I trust that you will all get to know them and help them to get to know you better as we serve and worship the Lord together.

Congratulations to Terry and Karen Patterson!

Recently Chris had "Anchors" pinned to his uniform as he attained the rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy.Kris, Anny & Gavin Patterson

One Heart

Blodgett Street Baptist Church had a great time of worship led by "One Heart" last week. Vickie Davis and Margaret Gee led us in worship following our baptismal service. What a joy to go to God's Throne of Grace in worship with our two wonderful friends and sisters in the Lord. We thank God for thier ministry though song. If you would like to get some of their music it is available on CD or cassette. Please contact our office for help.

I other churches would like to schedule "One Heart" you may also contact the church offic for information.

Welcome to God's Family @BSBC

We are thankful to God that He continues to pour His Grace out in our community. We were priveledged to witness the Scriptural Baptisms of Shaun and Tina Oldaker. Hope you will get to know them and their children, Heather, Amy, and Michael.

Palo Duro Canyon Trip

A number of our members recently took a trip sponsored by our JOY Ministry to Palo Duro Canyon State Park to view the musical drama, "Texas." We had a great time and were able to see some beautiful country. (It is so amazing to me that there are such beautiful place in Texas. Funny thing is - the more it looks like New Mexico the more beautiful it is!) Palo Duro canyon is the second largest canyon in the US and is simply amazing. The play was very entertaining and the time of felowship was wonderful. We hope to see more of you at our next JOY luncheon (Sept. 17th @ 11:30am) and our next trip.

Another Great Day in God's Kingdom

We were priveledged once again to see God's saving grace publicly proclaimed as two young people surrendered their lives to the Lord and were scripturally baptized as a testimoniy to God's Grace. Jonathan Estrada was bapitzed by Bro. Leonard Foster and Lauren Bruster was bapitzed by her step-father Zack Carlock. Isn't God Great!

The Power of Prayer!

Conci and (mother) Rhonda, niece of June and Jim Wynn were recently the concerted effort of prayer for the Grace Class Sunday School. After Rhonda had cervical cancer she believed that she would not be able to bear children, but by the grace of God Conci was conceived and born. Their visit to the Bible study in the Grace Class last Sunday was a direct testement to the power of intercesssory prayer by the ladies in this class. " We wish everyone to know that God is praised in our hearts through our love of our Lord and the priveledge of intercessory prayer."

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G'Day Mates

Looking Forward to Seeing You All at VBS

Mon thru Fri. June 1st thru June 5th from 9:00am - Noon


Please arrive early (8:30am) on Monday for registration. Ages Four Years old thru completion of Fifth Grade.

As the Lord has sent the harvest of many precious roses we believe he is preparing the harvest of young souls to be harvested during VBS.

Sam, Dave, Les, Mark Losey of Adventure Signs and I invite all of you to join us in reaping the harvest God is preparing for His Kingdom from June 1st through June 5th.

Please pray and participate as God leads, that we might see many children become Born -Again Belivers in Jesus Christ.

Pat Mitchell, Bro. Dave and the World Famous "Heaven Bound Choir" of BSBC

Has there ever been a more handsome and beautiful group leading our worship or more wonderful praise than singing the old time hymns of our faith?

God is so good. I want to praise Him forever and ever!

As a little background, I have 4 children… 3 girls and a boy. There has been an estrangement between them and me for about 38 years. In short, I did not raise my children because of circumstances I don’t want to relate at this time.

My oldest child contacted me and restarted our relationship about 20 years ago. I have truly been blessed because of this. However, I could never discuss anything about her siblings because they had made it clear she was not to share any news about them.

Twenty-five years ago, I came back to Christ and accepted Him as my Savior. It was at this time that I started praying for reconciliation with my children. But, I asked the Lord for their salvation first. I actually told Him It would be OK if we didn’t reconcile as long as they knew Him as their Lord and Savior. You see, I thought that way I would at least see them in heaven.

My son is the youngest of the group. He wrote a letter to me stating that he didn’t want any part of me in his life, to stay away, to never come around because he was better off if I did stay away. I cried when I got it. Special times always brought the “blues”. I have seldom attended church on Mother’s Day for instance. I just didn’t believe I should be honored when I most certainly was not worthy! Their birthdays and Christmas were not good days to be around me unless you wanted a dark side of me.

In November of last year, I wrote a letter to my children that the Lord had been prodding me to write. I had balked because, over the years, I had written them, had even asked their forgiveness for not being in their lives. That’s biblical, right? Well, I wrote that letter last November and sent it out to them as the Lord wanted, believing it was the last contact I probably would be making with them.

Yesterday, April 25, 2009, I received an email from my son. When I saw it, I immediately thought it was going to be negative. I summoned up the courage to read it after several minutes of self-chastisement. With great surprise, I found my son had written in response to my November letter and wanted to “get to know me”. Not only that… he related that he had received Christ as his Savior. His wife was the driving force in his salvation. He stated that it was truly emotional for him to write, and he apologized for taking so long to respond to my letter, but he “wanted it to be from his heart, not his head”.

Wow! Answers to 2 prayers at one time! It’s hard to beat that, right? Well, God gave me a third. I had my husband read the email from Gregg. Jim is not a believer and is very skeptical. He carefully read all about Gregg’s wife being the one who led him to accept Christ and that Gregg has found he is a sinner who has a ways to go “to get where he should be”. Then, Jim handed back the document and said “That’s a very good letter.” No skepticism at all, just support. I’m looking forward to the next miracle: my husband’s salvation! Hallelujah!!!

James 5:13-16 (NIV) says” Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Continued prayer is never in vain. God hears it all and answers. Many people over the years have been prayer warriors about reconciliation with my kids. I want to thank them all for that. Praise God for the privilege of doing that for some other brother or sister as well. We need to support and lift each other up in prayer.

And 2 Peter 3:8 (NIV) says” But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. We do not understand God’s timing.

This has re-taught me a beautiful lesson: God’s timing is perfect. So many things had to fall in place for a “miracle” to come about… and we have no conception of how much miracle God has in mind. We are to just be faithful and keep on praying!

The Miracle Kids: Sonny on the left and Kinstonon the right (Dale and Jodie Lambert's grandsons)

It was a miralcle for him to survive getting to the hospital after a television set fell on his head and fractured a significant portion of his skull. Today he is walking a bit on his own.

God's Grace is Amazing Still! Keep praying for his ongoing recovery and for God to use this miracle to reveal to others that God is still on His throne and that He truly is Jehovah Rapha - The Great Physician.

Welcome to our newest BSBC family members.

Jackie and Kathleen Clifton

May God Richly Bless You and Your Family

Pastor David Prell and the entire BSBC Family.

Praise God! From Stacie and Zack Carlock

Stacie Carlock our own walking miracle, one week after her automobile accident, worshipping God with her church family.

Thank you Jesus for your Grace and welcome home.

From Stacie:

God is still in the miracle making business! He worked an incredible miracle in my life last Tuesday I was driving through Otis on my way to the hospital for clinicals last Tuesday morning, when I collided with a semi truck. Going an estimated 60mph, I drove into the back of the truck. I don't remember anything, and I'm thankful for that. We are still waiting for the police report to help us understand what happened. What I will share with you are feelings that I've had and things I've been told by people who were there that morning.

Fortunately my husband was on his way home from work and came upon the crash site just minutes after it had happened. At that point, there were witnesses that had stopped and one man was at my car, checking on me to see if I was okay. He wasn't getting any response from me. 1-2 minutes had passed before Zack came to me. He found no pulse and said I wasn't breathing. I know God was there with me, holding me. I believe there was some sort of dialogue going on, and God was instructing me/allowing me to live. At that point, Zack released my seat belt to begin CPR. That's when I took a breath.

Hebrews 11: 1 "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." This is a powerful verse that helped my husband through some very hard times.

A good friend of mine responded to the call. EMS arrived within a few minutes. Everyone did an excellent job and I am so grateful. Once they got me to the ER, because I was so agitated/combative, they intubated me (put a breathing tube in) and sedated me. Within a couple of hours, I was transferred to UMC, Lubbock, TX where I had surgery to repair my fractured skull. That was the most significant of my injuries. I have a few abrasions and bruises, but overall, I'm doing incredibly well...thanks to God! He worked out every last detail, and I'm so grateful. God is good. I live because of Him. I can't wait to see what He has in store for my life.

I want to share my story with as many people as will listen! We serve a mighty and powerful God! Have you trusted God to be the Lord and Savior of your life? If you haven't, now is the time! Or maybe you have, but you've drifted away, now is the time to make it right with God! He is always there, waiting for us to ask Him for anything that we need.

Matthew 7:7 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

You don't know when your time will run out. Make right what needs to be made right. Say what you've been meaning to say to that person in your life. Be thankful, be kind.

I am forever grateful for those that voiced prayers on my behalf and for my family. I felt every single one! Thanks to everyone who gave of themselves to help us during this difficult time. I appreciate all of the kind words, the emails, the phone calls, the flowers, the chocolates and the meals. Thank you for your care, concern, and your love. I thank God for you guys! There really aren't enough words!!! If you will, please continue to pray for me as I recover and also for my husband, Zack. He's having to deal with the images that remain in his mind, I don't want them to continue to haunt him. Thank you.

Feel free to share this email if you feel led. Have a blessed day and please read Romans chapter 5. Powerful stuff. Love you guys! God Bless you and keep you.

Stacie Page Carlockome Stacie and Zack.