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Rhonda and I arrived home safely this past Saturday afternoon (July 24) after spending eleven days on the road, driving 2,879 miles, delivering three seminars, and taping two 1-hour television programs. As always it is so good to be home and sleeping in our own beds. Motels are nice when on the road, but there is no place like home!

Thank you so much for your prayers for our safe return!

The Algona, Iowa seminar only had about 150 people in attendance, but when you consider that Algona is a very small farming town in north central Iowa surrounded by cornfields and soybean fields for miles and miles around, that 150 number sounds pretty good. Over half of the people attending had driven at least three hours to attend and several had driven over six hours. It was a good meeting.

Our seminar in Independence, Missouri was a unique one – About two hours before the seminar was to begin, the worst thunder and lightning storm of the season (so I was told) hit town, and continued on and off throughout the evening. They were expecting 600 in attendance and no doubt that number would have shown up if it had not been for the storm. In spite of the storm we had over 300.

Then at one point during the seminar, popping sounds in the ceiling started and with each pop, showers of sparks rained down on the people. I urged the people to remain calm as the ushers moved the people from the area where the sparks were falling as I continued on with the seminar. The air conditioning unit was turned off on a very hot evening, but we did complete the seminar without any further problems and the people lingered for over an hour asking questions after the seminar ended.

Our seminar in the Keeter Center at the College of the Ozarks in Branson, Missouri had some 300 in attendance and we were told that was the largest number they had ever had in the auditorium on the college campus.

While in Branson we had the privilege of staying at the Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle Center in Golden, Missouri (located just outside of Branson). Kevin and Jenifer VanKirk are the owners and hosts of the Lifestyle Center and are wonderful caring people. Their home, located on the shores of Table Rock Lake is rustic and yet has all the amenities including private baths for each room.

Several days before our arrival in Branson, Jennifer had contact with television Evangelist Jim Baker who is developing 600 acres of land into a Christian village called Morningside in Branson. On the campus they have their television studios and when he  learned that we were coming to Branson he wanted all of us – Rhonda and myself, Kevin and Jennifer, to all be on his television show.

Jim Bakker was so excited we were there and the first thing he shared with us was that he was on a 100% plant based diet and in just the first four weeks of making the diet change was off all his diabetic medications and his blood sugar levels were normal. We taped one 1-hour show and then he asked us to do another. They will be telecast in about two weeks over Daystar and TBN, as well as on the internet around the world. I believe he said the viewing audience in the U.S. alone is over 58 Million.

This was an added bonus and for sure came as an unexpected opportunity to share God’s Health Message with a potential audience of millions of people around the world. They said that one of the countries they receive a tremendous response from is China. By the way, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Contraras have recently done shows on Jim Baker’s television programs as well.

Our next scheduled “God’s Way to Ultimate Health” seminars are scheduled for August 7 in Shelby, North Carolina; August 14 in New Bern, North Carolina and August 21 near Spartanburg, South Carolina. If any of these locations are near where you live, we hope to see you there.

I am writing this from my motel room in Algona, Iowa. The day is Monday, July 19, and the time is 6:00 a.m. This will be just a little update of our activities for the past week.

Wednesday, July 14, we left home in Shelby, North Carolina at about 9:00 a.m. after packing, and drove approximately 500 miles, stopping just south of Indianapolis, Indiana at a motel about 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, July 15, we left our motel room at 7:00 a.m. and drove nearly 700 miles, arriving in Algona, Iowa about 7:00 p.m. After checking into an Algona motel we drove over to see Rhonda’s mother, who lives in Algona. Rhonda’s family was having a family reunion and that is the reason we were in Algona.

Rhonda spent most of Friday with her family. At 5:00 p.m. we were at Trinity Lutheran Church where we had rented their fellowship hall for our Algona Seminar. About the time we had the book table set up people began to arrive.

The room was set up for about 180 and by the time I started the seminar, the room was almost full. But the question asked by so many of those attending was, “What brought you to this little town in Iowa in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by miles and miles of corn and soybean fields?” It was then I shared if it had not been for the Rhonda’s family reunion, we wouldn’t have been there.

When I asked how far people had traveled to attend the seminar, I learned that over half had driven 3 hours or more, some as much as 6 hours, They were there from not only Iowa, but from as far away South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The testimonies of improved health after adopting the Hallelujah Diet at the beginning of the seminar were incredible and those attending were so appreciative we had come.

Saturday and Sunday were the reunion and now it is Monday morning, July 19^th as I write this. In Just a few minutes we will pack up the car and begin our 6 hour journey to Independence, Missouri where our next seminar is scheduled for tomorrow evening at the The Gathering Place Conference Center.

Wednesday we will drive about 4 hours to Branson, Missouri where I have on Thursday Morning a 1-hour TV appearance on the Jim Baker show. That evening, I have a seminar in Branson, Missouri.

We have our portable electric refrigerator with us and have been able to make carrot/celery juice in our motel every day on the road thus far. Let me say the new Hurom Juicer is the ideal juicer to take on the road because of its small footprint on the motel bathroom sink.

The first 1,200 miles of our journey has been without incident. Please continue to pray the Lord will give us safe travel over the remaining almost 1,800 miles, and that we will be able to be a help and a blessing to many more as we continue to share “God’s Way to Ultimate Health.”