Harry's Blog

I attended the Southern Baptist Convention last week in Anaheim, California. It was great to see many of you in attendance. My world was full of meetings. I had breakfast, lunch, and dinner meetings. The highlight of the meeting for me was the International Mission Board Dinner. The food was "OK" but the message was a tremendous challenge Dr. Paul Chitwood, President of I...

There is a chorus that goes like this... "God is so good, God is so good, God is so good, He's so good to me! He answers prayer, He answers prayer, He answers prayer, He's so good to me! God is in the prayer answering business. He loves you and wants the best for you. Sometimes we ask for things in prayer that are not good for us, and He says NO! Sometimes we ask for th...

HE'S ALIVE!!! I am still flying high from the Easter celebrations. On Good Friday, I participated in a joint service with three of our churches: First Fil-Am Baptist Church, The Great I Am Fellowship, and Iglesia Bautista Pacto de Gracia. Each year these churches celebrate Good Friday with a service dedicated to the Seven Last Words of Christ. It is an exciting time of fo...

I had two blessings this past weekend. First, I attended the Celebration of Life for Jose Fernando Argumedo, Sr. This retired pastor went home to be with our Lord on March 2, 2022. The celebration was a testimony to the hope we have in the gospel. I sat there and marveled at the joy in his home going. I saw faith at work. The service proclaimed the simplicity of the gosp...

"There is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12) The most important message that we have is that salvation comes only through faith in Jesus Christ. So what is this message, "Repent therefore and return, that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshment ma...

John Dina, a missionary in Mozambique, was bitten by a deadly green mamba snake as he walked int he bush of his country. Dina drove himself home, a five hour drive. This his wife and a missionary doctor stayed with him that night. He was very sick. The next day a medical evacuation plane took him to a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. They gave him huge doses of a...

Vision challenges us to reach beyond ourselves. It challenges us to live by faith. With a clear vision of what our future is in Christ, no barrier is too difficult. Without it, we rarely move beyond our current boundaries. We get stuck doing the same thing over and over. Never realizing our full potential. This is a new year. We have fresh start. We can become whatever Go...

Acts 13:2 says,"Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." The call to be a pastor is a special calling. He is responsible to lead the church as directed by God. I have two special requests of you. First, listen and heed his instruction. He is here to proclaim "Thus sayeth the Lord." When he speaks he is delivering God's message of you. ...

NUMBERS TELL THE STORY PEOPLE: People in Our Association Territory 2,380,606 People with No Church (64.2%) 1,528,349 People in a Protestant Church (9.52%) 226,631 Evangelicals: Preach must be born again 183,783 Southern Baptist 31,297 People without Christ 2,153,723 That is 9 out of 10 residents or 9.5 lost person per Protestant CHURCHES: Zip Code Are...

Southern Baptists have a large missionary force of over 6,700 missionaries serving around the world. This is made possible because of the Cooperative Program. Pooling our resources keeps the waters of baptism stirred. Our missionaries are organzied into two mission fields. The North American Mission Board is responsible for sharing Christ in the United States, Canada, US T...