James and Linda Belisle
Family As most of you know, all of our children are adults, and three of them are married. Three of the four live in different states, so we don’t often have the entire family together. This year, however, our children decided to come to Wa [...]
This letter will be a little different because I want to take the whole letter to talk about my trip to Egypt in July. I took the trip with a group of men and one lady from our church. We went there to help with a Leadership Conference. Nor [...]
May and June were quite busy with much training taking place, both here in the United States and overseas in Nigeria. I work with FBMI, the mission agency of First Baptist Church in Hammond, Indiana. We have a Candidate School each year for [...]
We just returned from preaching a Missions Conference in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I have known Pastor Paul Williams since 1982, and it is a great privilege to minister in this church, which has produced so many young people who are [...]
Play As is the case with most years, I was able to participate in our church’s Live Animal Christmas Play that takes place in December each year. This is not your typical children’s play but a full-blown production with special effects and [...]
Vancouver, British Columbia: I arrived back in the USA from Nigeria on Thursday, October 26, and within 24 hours, Linda and I were on our way to Vancouver to preach for Missionary Ben Turner at the Anchor Baptist Church, located in Burnaby, [...]
When I arrived back from Argentina, Linda and I packed for a series of preaching engagements in Michigan. We started with going to Standish for the weekend of September 23. We were with Pastor Wiergowski at the Faith Baptist Church. Sometim [...]
August and September were quite busy. I started off the month by being with the FBMI Leadership Team for the annual meeting in which we plan out what we would like to accomplish with our FBMI missionaries during the next year. It is great t [...]
After getting back from Nigeria in May, I immediately went to Indiana to teach in the FBMI Candidate School, which is held each year for the new missionary candidates. This is an intensive four days of training where these potential mission [...]
As many of you know, the flu bug has hit most of America in epidemic proportions. While traveling, we have had pastors verify that this has been a problem in their churches. Well, that flu bug finally hit me. In the almost 39 years we have [...]
