{"id":1795,"date":"2019-06-01T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2019-06-06T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:02:24","slug":"baucom-may-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"Baucom May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dear Pastor, Church & Friends,                                                        May \n2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have had some interesting\ntimes since we last wrote. We had the Independent Fellowship Of Native Baptist Churches\nthis past Easter Good Friday. This is the Native Baptist Churches within 100\nmiles of our Reservation. The attendance was around 100 natives from five\nChurches. Native Churches are not many in number. If you have 35 on a Sunday\nmorning, that’s great. Sunday night & Wednesdays the crowd gets smaller.\nBUT GOD….has sure done wonders for us with our little remnant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We love to see natives\nvisit our Church. This month we had two male visitors.  We were all so happy and welcoming them into\nthe services. We hoped they would be back. \nThey did come back the next Sunday. But in the mean time red flags were\ngoing up all over the Church. I checked with police on the Reserve and back\nissues of newspapers while a great big lump was rising up in my throat.  One was a convicted pedophile charged with 3\ncounts of possessing, making and distributing child porn. And to think how much\nwe made over these two men being there. All week I worried how to handle it.\nThe last thing I would do being a white man is tell a native of this\nReservation that he was not welcome in our Church. I HAD LEARNED MY LESSON about\n10 years ago. So I involved our men. \nThey could tell them and not bat an eye, and they did. He was very\npolite once he saw I had the goods on him. Oh how our mother’s with children\nwere upset. The visitors left and we’re back to normal. Another lesson learned.\nDo your home work before you make over new visitor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another surprise was our daughter Mary, her husband\nDerek and our grandson Griffin came to visit us from Little Rock. Ten days of\nromper room excitement! I could write a book here. It was the best thing that\nhas happened to us in a long, long  time. \nOur whole family together!  We had\na blast!! Most likely it will be a very long time before we get them all\ntogether again.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of us are about\nthe same. The doctor gave me a good report apart from the Parkinson Disease.  And also, the doctors can’t understand why my\nstrength is half of what it used to be. I get so weak every day. The\nNeurologist said it’s due to the Parkinson and there’s nothing I can do about\nit except stay active.  Elaine’s surgery\nfor her hip is still upcoming. It’s not getting any better. Just waiting on the\ndoctor to call. She uses a cane more often now and continues to be active as\nmuch as she can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me say, our traveling\nin a car to come down south is just not possible for now. We live, bloom and mostly\ndie where God plants us. The work load is as great as ever, but the physical\nstrength is less than half. The Parkinson’s has become a ruler in my life. I\nhave to consider it before I set out to do anything. I find myself weeping more\nthese days due to my ability or disability to go as I use to. As in anything,\nwe have our bad days and good days. But we keep moving forward. All else is\ngood. \n\nTo our dear supporters, we\nare indebted to you. Your faithfulness is so gracious and true. God love you.\nYour prayers and financial support is soooo much appreciated. Thank you. Anytime\nyou’d like to call or text, please do.  As<\/em> cold waters\nto a thirsty soul, so is<\/em> good news from a far country.<\/strong>Pr 25:25<\/strong> Thank\nyou for loving me and Elaine the way you dear folk do. \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Pastor, Church & Friends,                                                        May  2019 We have had some interesting times since we last wrote. We had the Independent Fellowship Of Native Baptist Churches this past Easter Good Friday. This is the Native Baptist Churches within 100 miles of our Reservation. The attendance was around 100 natives from five Churches. Native […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,7,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-59","category-missionary-letters","category-tom-elaine-baucom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}