Acadiana Missions

I received a shocking and overwhelming telephone call this past Wednesday. It was from a man and wife, very conservative Missionary Baptists, who live in Moss Bluff, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. There once was an ABA church in the west Lake Charles suburb of Westlake, but it closed a few years ago. They had been driving about an hour away to the Shiloh MBC in Vidor, TX. They are desperately searching for an arm of authority to start a sound, separate Missionary Baptist church in their area. They first reached my dad at home, and he took the message, and I called them back after services Wednesday night. We are supposed to have our first prayer meeting with them, Lord willing, on October 16th with a morning preaching service, lunch, and afternoon preaching service. My dad will bring the morning message and I am scheduled to preach the afternoon service.

The reality is, that although there have in the past, been several churches and missions in the S Louisiana area in cities such as the aforementioned Westlake, Lafayette, Kenner, Houma, and Bunkie, the only ABA churches that I am aware of from the TX line to the Baton Rouge/New Orleans are Liberty MBC in Jennings (about 40 miles E of Lake Charles), New Harmony (formerly Colonial) MBC in Baton Rouge, and Bethel MBC in New Orleans. The whole region is ripe for missionary work. It is widely known that Catholicism has a stranglehold on this area. My vision is that churches would be planted all over the region in Lake Charles, Lafayette, Kenner, Metarie, Houma, Thibadaux, Eunice, Crowley, Marksville, New Iberia, Morgan City, and many other small towns. Please pray for me and my dad as we work in the area, and if the Lord is placing a calling in your heart for Acadiana, please take this as the Macedonian call to "come over and help us."