Last night the brothers met for midweek service around a bonfire, each brother reading their favorite Psalm and sharing what that Psalm means to them. In between the readings, we sang songs and prayed together. It was a super encouraging night with the Brothers. One of the men who read a Psalm was Logan Birchfield. He read Psalm 23 and talked about how “if God can rescue us from the ‘Valley of the shadow of Death’, then he can rescue us from the smaller issues we are faced with day to day.”
Last Fall, Jordan Hall, a freshman at Clemson University was paired up in a dorm room with a young man, Patrick Anderson, from Columbia, South Carolina. Jordan reached out to Patrick, started studying the Bible with them and in late October Patrick was baptized. The night of Patrick’s baptism, he and Jordan shared about how they wanted to work together to reach others in their dorm, the Clemson House! They meant what they said. Patrick met Logan and asked him if he would like to study the Bible and several days later, Patrick and Jordan began studying the Bible with Logan in their dorm room. Not too long after, Logan came to Church and began worshiping with us. With every Bible Study Logan’s convictions deepened. 
On Tuesday night we studied out Light and Dark and talked in depth about Baptism. As we read the scriptures and talked about them you could see the light bulb going off in Logan. He went home with a lot to think about. After the men’s midweek service last night and a little fellowship, Logan, Patrick and Jordan took off to go and study for exams, but not 10 minutes later at around 9:30pm, I get a phone call from Patrick saying that Logan wanted to get Baptized…they came over to my house along with two other brothers, Kyle Fridley and David Boerma and we counted the cost. He was ready, so we put out a text announcing he was getting baptized and we all met at midnight at the Dike at Lake Hartwell. We sang, we prayed and we took some time to share with Logan and encourage him and at 12:30am he was Baptized into Christ!
It’s so inspiring to see how God continues to stir Lake Hartwell and encourage the Clemson Foothills Church…
Thanks for your continued prayers for the Clemson Mission. God is doing more than we could have hoped for or imagined!
