On October 7th, Ron Setran and I boarded our flight to Baltimore, MD to begin our two week journey through Pennsylvania and Virginia, just one day before Hurricane Milton was to hit Florida. We checked with all the weather forecast information available at the time and saw that the southeastern part of Florida where our ministry and families are located would be out of the path of the storm. After praying with our family and receiving their blessing we embarked on our two week ministry journey. What we did not take into consideration were the tornadoes that were to accompany the hurricane. Hurricane Milton hurled 46 tornadoes at Florida. One of those tornadoes came very close to the Prayer Station house in Jupiter Farms hitting less than 1 mile away and another in Stuart coming as close as one and a half blocks away from the home of Dan & Rebecca Burd, our son-in-law, daughter and two sons. The Lord spared them all, but it was very scary for our families.

After arriving in Baltimore we drove to Harrisburg Pennsylvania to attend a gathering of some 350 pastors from the Southern Baptist Convention. Prayer Stations had a booth at the conference that was strategically located at the door of the main meeting room. We had opportunity to talk with many of the Pastors about the Prayer Station ministry and gave away hundreds of our recently published book “Five Little Words”. I was honored to be asked to close the convention in prayer.

Ron and I then drove down to Winchester Virginia To visit our dear colleague Bill Blatz, who had just moved there from Washington State the week before. It was so good to spend quality time with Bill and his family.

We then spent six days in Philadelphia with our dear friends and colleagues Doug & Deb Tunney, who direct the YWAM work in Philadelphia. Two years before, I challenged a group of pastors and ministry leaders in Philadelphia with Prayer Stations. God spoke to Doug and gave him a vision to see 100 churches in Philadelphia receive and use Prayer Stations. We were able to thank God that now some 73 different churches were using this powerful tool in evangelism in their neighborhoods.

During our time in Philadelphia we:
· Met with strategic influential pastors of the city
· Participated in Prayer Station outreaches in the city
· Visited a key Prayer Station donor for the Philadelphia project
· Preached in two different churches in the city
· Spoke at a YWAM School of Evangelism in an Indian Church.
· Encouraged the YWAM Philadelphia staff

On Tuesday, October 15th Doug, Ron and I met with a Christian Company in Southeastern Pennsylvania that has invested in helping us provide Prayer Stations to the churches of Philadelphia to give them a report on how the ministry was progressing. They were very happy to receive our report and shared their affirmations on the project. We then visited YWAM Lancaster to deliver a Prayer Station and also meet up with Alex Miller, one of our former students and staff from YWAM NY who was teaching at the Lancaster Pennsylvania YWAM base.

On Wednesday, October 16th we drove to South Jersey to visit with Tammy, Don & Cookie Adams. Tammy serves on our staff and Don is the father of David Adams, the man who was my assistant director for many years before his untimely passing, and his sister Cookie. We then drove up to Staten Island to visit with my cousins who we had not seen in about 3 years.

On Thursday, October 17th we visited with our friends Bob & Helen Miller who oversee Blue Mountain Retreat in New Ringgold Pennsylvania, where Rozanne and I began one of the first YWAM Discipleship Training Schools in 1975. We also visited our dear friend & first ever supporter, Dee Beurrier, on the eve of her 93rd birthday.

From Friday, October 18th through the 20th, Ron and I were part of the Smithtown Community Church annual Missions Conference. We had opportunity to share with this congregation that has supported our ministry for over 30 years. We stayed with our dear friends Harold & Nancy Hills and their precious daughter Kristin.

We returned home on Monday, October 21st to our family and celebrated with dinner together.
It was a powerful two weeks of ministry and a little exhausting for this 78-year-old but well worth the time and effort!