Before we get to far into the letter we want to inform you we had another granddaughter born Friday 26 October to Matthew and Alyson. Her name is Dana Lynn! That gives us four grandsons and three granddaughters. Our tribe continues to increase, praise the Lord! November 2001 Prayer Letter

The wedding went well with David performing the ceremony. Of course the bride looked beautiful in the wedding dress she made herself. She is a seamstress like her mother in-law. The following Monday, 17th September, Jonathan and Lynne flew to Hawaii for a one-week honeymoon. They are now back and getting settled into real life. Our youngest son and child, Matthew, flew over to be best man. He was here for only two weeks but it was still hard to say goodbye at the Sydney airport. He was a little nervous in flying but anxious to get back to Iowa and his family. October 2001 Prayer Letter

As we labour in Dubbo, Gilgandra and surrounding towns we pray for the Lord's work in the hearts of unsaved and saved. We desire for the unsaved to come to faith in Christ and for the saved to be obedient in separating from the apostate and new evangelical churches. Many an independent Baptist work was begun in Australia through a few believers practicing the doctrine of Bible separation from apostasy and new evangelicalism and joining themselves to an independent Baptist work. September 2001 Prayer Letter 

Sunday 29 July was our combined meeting between the Dubbo and Gilgandra fellowships. This is also our missionary Sunday where the entire offering goes to a home or foreign missionary. Praise the Lord we were able to send $200 to home missionary Pastor Liam Luz in Port Adelaide, South Australia. August 2001 Prayer Letter 

It is winter and the frost has been on the pumpkin several mornings. Some mornings it almost looks like snow but that doesn't make us homesick for Iowa and the real thing. If it wasn't frost it was fog. A couple of mornings the fog was so thick it was almost 11am before it lifted. David went by to visit Andy and Ellen Thompson. They didn't give any reason as to why they have not been back to church since coming home from Sydney. David didn't ask and they and didn't mention wanting to begin the Bible studies again. July 2001 Prayer Letter 

We are the proud grandparents of a new bouncing baby boy, William Robert Skinner. William was born on our youngest son Matthew's birthday, 27 May at 4.24 p.m. He weighed six pounds eight ounces and was twenty inches long. The weight and measurement was for the lady readers. There were some complications but mother and baby are home and doing fine. The birth of this little one means God has blessed us with six grandchildren. Praise the Lord! The seventh is due 28 October this year! June 2001 Prayer Letter 

What a precious truth those verses preach! Sadly the local paper carried editorials by four of the clergy at Easter and only one gave anything close to a gospel message. Surprisingly it was the pastor of the charismatic Baptist Union church. The other three (Uniting, Catholic, and Anglican) had only a social message of tolerance, peace, and love. One of the paper's journalists wrote an article seeking to explain why Mary Magdalene wrote the Gospel of John. The article was out and out heresy to say the least and demanded a rebuttal, which David wrote. We trust the Lord will use this to reach someone in this religious but lost city. April-May 2001 Prayer Letter

As the land needs refreshing physical rain so the parched souls of our people need the Water of Life found in the Word of God. Isaiah 55: 10, 11 "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Thank you for sending us to preach the unsearchable claims of Christ! March 2001 Prayer Letter 

January 15 was Gilgandra Baptist Fellowship's Kid's Club held at the Country Women's Hall, Gilgandra. We had twelve children attend the first club for which we praise the Lord! The temperature was well over 100 degrees and the children drank over 14 liters of cordial. IT WAS HOT! The building did not have air-conditioning but did have ceiling fans in one section, which was good. This kid's club day opened the door to homes to which we had no entry earlier. Most of the children come from unchurched homes and many are aboriginal. February 2001 Prayer Letter 

Some have asked about the locust plague we were expecting. We didn't get as many locusts here in our part of the state as they expected. We did have about two hundred (our count when we vacuumed them up) get into the house and die. Fortunately David found the opening where they were entering before they completely took over. In closing we once again quote the prince of preachers. January 2001 Prayer Letter