It's been such a wonderful few days together and seems longer than just the couple of days

because of the density of our participation and the exposure to the teaching of the precious

Word of God.

It's been a great privilege for me to be here to spend a little time with our see.

For some reason the Lord has put us as far away from each other as possible on the American

continent.

It's as if both of us were on the same end.

We might tip the country in the wrong direction.

So the Lord kept us balanced off far away from each other.

It's a cherished friendship but not one in which we actually get to be face to face and

spend time together.

It's been a delight to have my wife Patricia here as well and to enjoy this.

We are actually on our way to Scotland and some ministry there.

Part of it will be installing one of our recent graduates of the Master Seminary.

He came to us from Belfast, Ireland.

He came as a single man and in five years of seminary we gave him a wife.

She gave him two children and he was called to Emmanuel Baptist Church in Belfast and

I'll have the privilege to preach his installation there next Sunday.

So we're very grateful for that.

Very thankful the Master Seminary has somewhere between 40 and 50 nations in its student

body and that is an exciting opportunity for us.

The year was 1644.

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