Sunday, May 31, 2009

Prayer Letter 09 May

Dear Ones in Christ, May, 2009    Click here to return to our website.
Fifty six years ago today a tornado hit our home and Lakeview 
High School in San Angelo, Texas at about 2:11 PM. I had the 
most wonderful peace in my soul even though I did not know if 
my parents were living or gone to Glory. Later I learned the 
tornado had blown my mother across the alley landing at the 
corner of a neighbor’s house driving a four foot piece of wood 
about three feet above her head into the corner of that house. 
She had read Psalm 91:2 on a scripture calendar above my desk 
before the tornado lifted her and she went through the air; 
“carried gently like a feather,” as she later described her flight. 
Our Lord wonderfully keeps His word and she only had a couple 
of bruises. My walk home after the tornado was amazing as I saw 
straw sticking through telephone poles, a store with the wall gone 
yet shelves against the inside of the wall with canned goods 
stacked neatly on the shelves, houses looking like piles of 
toothpicks and the only way I could recognize where I was as I 
walked home was by counting the intersections. When I reached 
where our house had stood, I walked to the corner and looked at 
only the foundation tile with even the plumbing having been torn 
out of the ground. Job 1:21b came to mind “the LORD gave, and 
the LORD hath taken away: blessed be the name of the Lord.” 
The neighbor’s pickup was parked in front of our house and the 
door opened as my mother called “Bob we’re over here.” 
I climbed into the pickup and we had a praise service because we 
were all safe. All earthly possessions were gone but it really did 
not matter because we had the Lord and each other! Our hearts 
were filled with Praise! 
The Lord recently placed me in contact with Brother James Curtis 
in Ohio who works on internet web sites for missionaries. He has set
up a web site for us and the address is bbfibobgriggs.com.  so you
can look us up on the web if you have an internet connection.
I will give you a more permanent web address later after we get 
everything finalized. Our website is now bbfibobgriggs.com.
We are continuing to work on the site presently. This is a ministry 
Brother Curtis has started to assist us missionaries in setting up 
web sites to further promote our ministry. We appreciate so much 
the Lord leading Brother Curtis into this ministry.
Brother JB and Daniel recently sent out packets and mailbags to 
India, Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Togo. They will be sending out another 
mailing soon. Remember you can now send new or used Bibles, New 
Testaments, Sunday school or DBVS materials and Christian 
literature to them at: 
Grace Church, Attention: 
JB & Daniel, 1440 Florida Rd., 
Durango, CO. 81301. 
We Praise the Lord for leading them to take over our mailing ministry.
In Christian Love,
Bob and Verna