Dr. Mark Holmes Family
Our furlough continued in July with a few Independence Day celebrations: fireworks at our sending church after the midweek service, dinner at our pastor’s home the next evening, and activities at my mom’s assisted-living facility on the mor [...]
Our family arrived in Miami on May 7 for a short furlough to celebrate Victoria’s high school graduation, firstly with a “senior trip” to the Florida Keys. On 14 May, she walked at Abeka’s homeschool program in Pensacola, and the next week [...]
Early in March, the members of Grace & Glory Baptist Church unanimously and joyously promoted Bro. Adewale Adesina to be their senior pastor. Since the middle of 2015, I’ve been co-pastoring two churches simultaneously, so it is a big c [...]
After already enjoying a nice holiday break from our kids’ homeschooling and my seminary teaching, we rejoiced to have our oldest son Joseph visit us from the U.S. At both churches in which our family is involved, members were happy to see [...]
In four out of the last five years, we have been privileged to conduct six Pastors’ Conferences in the three main regions of Nigeria. The last two conferences of 2023 were completed successfully at the beginning of November in the citie [...]
At the beginning of September, I got the chance to close out our three weeks of youth camps by conducting the SMITE graduation in Nigeria’s southeast. In total, the Student Missions Institutes for Training in Evangelism, held in Ogbomoso, A [...]
The two months of summer opened with an American Independence Day celebration among our missionary families, joined by a friend and fellow college administrator as our special guest. Pastor Ezra Owolabi of Blue Mountain Baptist College in O [...]
On the 14th of May, Truth Baptist Church celebrated an anniversary 17 years to the day that it was founded. It turned out to be our largest attendance on the property, with about 400. We were glad to host Evangelist Doug Neary of A Look at [...]
In the middle of March, we received not only an amazing opportunity but also a well-timed answer to prayer. White Oak Baptist Church in Stratford, Connecticut, arranged for Sabrina and me to be their special guests during the church’s annua [...]
After a relaxing Christmas holiday, the year started busily and victoriously, as we quickly realized that this would be a historic semester for our full-time ministry-training school. Providence Baptist College & Seminary welcomed a rec [...]
