Home Again.

Beverly's birthday with Doug and Sue

Beverly at her High School Reunion (front row - left)

Beverly had a wonderful time at her 

50^th High School reunion.  She

renewed acquaintances with a high 

point being a time of renewed 

friendship with a Jewish classmate 

and his bride.  It was very meaningful 

for both families. There was a reception, 

a tour of the new high school and a 

more formal dinner at a country club.

Beverly with family

She also had the opportunity several
times to get together with family 
members, spending a lot of time with 
her siblings.  Just before we arrived 
there was a funeral service for Dick 

Laudenslager, father of Sue Landis 
our sister-in-law. So it was a very 
important time for us to spend time 
with Doug and Sue and even got 
to visit Sue’s family home in 
Quakertown where she grew up.

Dennis and Jason working on a new building at The Loft

Our visit to Allentown allowed me again to visit with my brother Dennis and to see the progress on their new Bible study room at the “Loft” Christian camp in upstate PA.  Saw Jason his son-in-law again and what an encouragement it was to be there again.  

Don catches a bass at the pond at The Loft Camp

I spent about an hour fishing at the camp and caught a couple of bass, one over 17 inches long!  (left books for the family)


Sunday was a busy day too.  We spoke to the youth group at Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church.  This is the home church of Sarah, Leah and Rachel Klase. We spent time with their parents and met again some of their siblings.  Their Grandfather Ron Mahurin came in just as I began to speak and really complimented the Bible College to the students.  This family is a strong support for the college and we are blessed to have them all as friends.  Almost 70 kids were in attendance and we had a number who responded that they would like to attend the college.  Jon the youth pastor could not have more inviting and I thanked him for the opportunity to speak.  Thanks Joyce for arranging this special event.  

Lance and Karen at the new church

In the afternoon along with Joyce and Herbie, Beverly’s sister and brother we visited her cousins in Harleysville for their birthdays and they asked to buy books too!

In the evening we traveled to Morgantown, Pa to speak to the new church where Lance Eisele is the new pastor. It was a time of blessing seeing Karen too and their daughter Trish.  The church was pretty full.  I spoke for about an hour but like the morning never really got to the Ancient Man part of what I had prepared so quite a few stayed and we went after a brief break for another hour!

Sold lots of book at these events.

Monday was for some rest and we left Tuesday, taking a day side trip and visited Niagara Falls, staying in Canada!  It was rainy and misty but it just added to the time there, sort of like Brigadoon.  We rode the Maid of the Mist into the center of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls and it was like being in a washing machine, took a long time to dry out.

                                 

                                          Ready to ride the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls

Praise the Lord for our safe return last Saturday!

Our thanks to Scott who preached at CBC, finishing the second part of the message "Demolishing Strongholds" this past Sunday.

Pastor Don

Hello from Allentown, PA

The Answers in Genesis board meeting is now history. Emphasis this meeting was vision casting with reports from all the departments of ministry.  The first morning Ken introduced to the board and staff the theme for the next two years and I am really excited about it.  Our emphasis will be on the ministry to and for children.  We will hear much more from AiG on the “rescuing” of children. 

AiG has been under attack (along with all of us who teach creationism) that we are abusing children!

Here is a pic of Ken and myself and a 25th year anniversary reprint of
his book the Lie, which really shows the heart of the message of AiG.

The new book, “Genius of Ancient Man” was displayed three different places in the museum bookstore.  It was thrilling to see the response from the board, staff and the folks who attended the special evening Bible study set up by the Hanson family in South Carolina!  It was one of the top sellers on the web site too!

The Genius of Ancient Man on sale in the Creation Museum bookstore.

Thanks again to the Hanson family for the opportunity to speak and for all their work in setting up a wonderful evening with a great meal and fellowship.

A new display outside the museum shows the size of a one-story bay of the Ark.  It gives some insight into the incredible amount of space Noah had to use.  Included below is a picture of the board in front of the bay.  It is one story while he had three floors and he had the equivalent of hundreds of these spaces.

We had a really thrilling opportunity to have lunch with and to meet Dr. Damadian while at the AiG offices.  Dr. Damadian invented the MRI machine and is a devout believer and young earth creationist.  We sat in just on an evening session where he told his story of the invention of MRI!  What a remarkable story, this medical tool has benefited thousands and thousands of people.

Beverly will be meeting with friends at her 50^th High School reunion this weekend.  She is really looking forward to this time.

I speak twice on Sunday, in the morning to the youth group at Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship church in Allentown and in the evening at the church where Lance Eiesle has become the new pastor. 

Yesterday was my birthday and today is Beverly’s birthday!  What a delight in receiving all the greetings of happy birthday from so many friends.

News from home is that the JHBC trip to Mt. St. Helens was a safe and successful trip.  This week Dr. Dave Janssen is teaching on Old Testament Prophets.

Last Sunday Dr. Don Saylak spoke at CBC for the morning service and this coming Sunday Scott Austin is giving the message.

So far over 3500 miles on the trip, thanks for your prayers.

Pastor Don

Hello from Branson, MO

We had a good trip leaving from CBC after church on Sunday and stayed in Sidney, Nebraska that night, lodging in Springfield, Missouri the following night.

Monday afternoon we spent time with Tim Dudley at the publishing office of Master Books.  What an exciting time to meet with some of the people who are woking on promoting the book!  It was humbling and awesome.  Pray with us that the Lord will use the message of The Genius of Ancient Man for His glory.

Monday evening we had the opportunity to go to the Sight and Sound Theatre in Branson, Missouri for the Joseph presentation.  What a wonderful message of forgiveness!

We picked up more of the books today and hope to travel a little further than Little Rock by Wednesday night so it is not so long a day on Thursday to arrive in South Carolina.  Our friends the Hansens have lined up a Bible study for Friday night and we have been informed that approximately 40 people are coming.

Also another opportunity is for us to speak at the Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship church youth group class on Sunday morning October 21st in Allentown, Pennsylvania.  That same evening we are to be at a church in PA where Lance Eiesle is the new Pastor.

The AiG board meeting begins Sunday night, October 14th.


Thanks for your prayers.
Don and Beverly

Exciting Days in Jackson Hole

On Saturday the valley folks began a few exciting but serious days with a wild fire starting south of town and as of tonight has grown to over 2700 acres.  The fire has made its way to Cache Creek Canyon and so the residents of the east side of town are under alert to be ready to evacuate!

I include a photo of the fire soon after it started on Saturday and a second photo from town looking Southeast.

And today a very very exciting event for us here at the camp, a copy of the book, The Genius of Ancient Man arrived!    What a job Tim Dudley's crew did at New Leaf Press.  We are very grateful for Tim opening the door of this opportunity and as we all gathered around the book had a prayer that the Lord would use it for His glory.

It will be a few weeks till the shipment of the book arrives but to hold in your hands the effort made over a period of three years is a real thrill. My thanks also to all the college students and others who worked on this project.
It can be pre-ordered on Amazon.

Dan Saylak and AiG Board Meetings

Dear Friends,

A good friend of ours, Dan Saylak died Sunday night. Dan battled cancer for 7 years and after a long, painful struggle he went home to be with the Lord. Dan and Amy Saylak made numerous visits to Jackson Hole over the years and we have had the privilege to be in their home in Texas. Amy helped with decorations for Annie and Jared's wedding and their daughters were good friends of Annie and of several in our church family. Dan was well known doctor who had a wonderful practice and was president of a doctor’s association.

Dan’s dad, Don Saylak, has taught for many years at JHBC bringing scientific support for a literal text of Genesis. Don and Nancy are dear friends who attend CBC in the summers while in Jackson. 

We ask that you would be praying for the entire Saylak family. Especially be praying for their daughter, Susie, who is getting married on June 30^th in just a few weeks.  The wedding will be a very emotional time for all.

We hope to see Amy when she comes to Jackson to visit in the future.

The Board meeting for AiG went well.  There was much to do and so little time.  Ken was on a debate on TBN and asked me to lead a staff chapel to talk about the debate and the issues covered.  I spoke on Friday morning to the staff and that message was put on mp3 and is on the Internet for the public to listen to.  I hope you might have time to listen to it as well. Here is the link to Ken’s blog which has a copy of the chapel message: http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2012/06/09/millions-of-years—an-attack-on-the-cross/

After the meeting we traveled to upstate Michigan and stayed for two nights with the Manthei family.  Dan and Kathy live near Petoskey, Michigan and Dan has been a board member of AiG from the initial formation of the ministry.  Their son, Micah, graduated from JHBC in 2010.  Dan opened the door for me to speak to a small group at his church following the morning worship time and that went well. I spoke on the state of our times and how the ministry of JHBC and AiG is working to instruct folks and present the good news of Jesus.

While with the Manthei family we went out on the Lake at their home and Beverly got to go ride a jet ski.  She was not driving but the jet ski went up to 58 miles per hour. 

This morning we left and took our time making our way across the third

longest suspension bridge, which goes across the strait where Lake 

Michigan meets Lake Huron.  We have had a great time relaxing along the way and tonight we left the humidity and heat in the east and now the weather is cool in Ironwood, Michigan, just on the border with Wisconsin.

We are looking forward to being back with you all this weekend. Thank you so much for your prayers and support.

Pastor Don

Dr. Ken Ham and Eric Hovind on TBN

I am sure all of you know that in the teaching of Community Bible Church, Jackson Hole Bible College, and Rocky Mountain Ministries we make a big issue of the authority of Scripture and the current hermeneutic crisis across the country. The American church has mixed the influence of postmodernism (there is no absolute truth and truth is whatever you wish it to be) with a lack of education, training and adherence to reading the Bible with a literal, historical, grammatical, contextual approach. Everywhere we find pastors, church members and para-church leaders making the Bible say whatever they want it to. Today many believers are holding to correct doctrine on the work of Christ in the New Testament, yet their view of Genesis is figurative, spiritual, or a distorted and mutilated literal view.  They are trying to fit millions of years into the Genesis account. 

Ultimately they are trying to mix the word of man (secular historical science) with God’s inspired Word. A mixture sounds noble, trying to make the Creation account more appealing using modern science views but this syncretism has proven disastrous for today’s church and the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We teach that if you hold a view of millions of years before Adam and Eve, you automatically accept that what is buried in the fossil record existed before Adam’s sin.  Since the record includes death, decay, disease, tumors, cancer, then all of this existed before Adam sinned.  The strata of rock even has fossils of thorns!  Yet God says thorns were a result of Adam’s sin. The Bible is very clear that death and decay etc. are the results of Adam’s sin.

Now it might sound like just an argument from the past with little impact on us today but… ...if Adam’s sin brought about death and Jesus Christ is the last Adam as presented in the New Testament then what did Jesus accomplish on the cross?  He certainly would not have died to correct the problem of sin and death.  As many teach today, Christ Himself created death as a part of the good creation then if He died to fix the issue of death, the last enemy, then He would have died for His own creative actions!  In fact if the old earth position is correct then Christ would not have fixed anything about physical death in Christ’s atonement!  Why then would He even have had to die physically?  Why a need for a physical resurrection?

This is a critical issue since an old earth view is really an attack on the cross, the Word of Christ and an attack on the person of Christ Himself!

This past week a great opportunity opened up for two of our professors at Jackson Hole Bible College. Dr. Ken Ham and Eric Hovind were invited to be on a TV program on TBN.  It turned into a debate with Dr. Hugh Ross, one of the leading proponents of old earth view. This debate is so relevant, and the topic is so important I encourage you to view it as soon as you can. Thousands have already seen it so please join in and get the message out!  (as of today, June 6 at 11.45 am EST, 26,209 people had viewed the TBN debate!) You can view it at: http://www.itbn.org/index/detail/lib/Networks/sublib/TBN/ec/RjNW53NDodbPdWZMesby0hMNzxHCg2Kk It is not only an authority of Scripture issue, this issue affects a central theological issue since it concerns significance and implications concerning the blood atoning work of Christ.

Thank you for your continued support of the ministry in Jackson. God bless you,

Don Landis

Teaching Pastor, Community Bible Church; President, Jackson Hole Bible College

Time in Pennsylvania

Good Afternoon:

Craig and Deborah Graber have returned from China and are in Jackson on a short furlough.  They are missionaries supported by our fellowship at CBC.  Craig will be bringing the message on Sunday along with a presentation for the children.  You won’t want to miss this report of their exciting work.

I hear all good reports from last week’s service in the town square! Philip Wilson, one of the elders at CBC, gave the sermon for Cowboy Church.  I hear it was a bit cold but there was still a good attendance. Thanks Philip for your outspoken faith. 

We are enjoying our visit with family here in Pennsylvania.  Beverly is seeing lots of relatives and is as busy as ever.

After staying with Jared’s folks Friday night we arrived on Saturday at a special family reunion and 50^th birthday party for Beverly’s brother Herb.  Herb is quite a guy and we had a great time celebrating his birthday.

Sunday morning we attended Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship church.  The Memorial Day special speaker was Clebe McClary. The talk that he gave was very inspirational. You can get more info at his web site, www.clebemcclary.com/. We had a chance to chat and invited him to come to Jackson sometime.

Sunday afternoon we traveled to upstate PA and spent the evening and next morning with Dennis and Steffi Landis at the “Loft”.  Their children Jason & Amy and Kyle & Christi also live at the camp and we saw firsthand again what the Lord is doing there in their lives.  We also saw the new media building which is nearing completion at the Loft.

  

Many years ago Dad and Mom built a cabin in the Pocono Mts. of Pennsylvania for our family to use.  Well it wasn’t long before groups like our youth group and groups from Youth For Christ (my job before moving to Jackson) started using the cabin too!  In a very short time the “Loft” as it was called was used all the time to host retreats.  After Mom and Dad moved to Jackson the cabin was sold but the ministry was moved to a new site in upstate Pennsylvania where it is today – and going strong. Check out their ministry at: http://theloftministries.org/id4.html 

Memorial Day we traveled with Joyce and Dave (you have been praying for him at CBC) along with Herb into the mountains and had a delightful time visiting sites like Mauch Chunk and Jim Thorpe!

This week we visited my Aunt Margaret Miller who is living in a Mennonite home here. 

We had a great time visiting with Lance and Karen Eisele.  They are in Pennsylvania waiting on the Lord for a new assignment; Lance really wants to get back into the pastoral ministry.  

It is very hot and humid here in Pennsylvania until yesterday. One forgets what humidity is like when we are used to living in snow country.

Mowed some lawn yesterday and spent an afternoon by myself at one of my favorite places where we used to camp as a family, Hickory Run State park.  (Beverly visited more relatives and shopped with her sister Joyce) We have some more family time and last minute visits today before we head out to the AiG museum tomorrow.

Ken Ham and Eric Hovind were on TBN and I encourage you to check out the debate with Hugh Ross.

http://www.itbn.org/index/detail/lib/Networks/sublib/TBN/ec/RjNW53NDodbPdWZMesby0hMNzxHCg2Kk

Thanks for your prayers.

  

Hi everyone!

Beverly and I left Jackson before lunch on Wednesday and arrived in PA at the home of Nancy and Jay Kuhns, Jared’s parents.  

On our way we stopped in Kentucky at the museum and met with Ken and Dr. Menton who showed us the new exhibit on Lucy.  This will be a hot exhibit drawing a lot of interest. The exhibit shows the contrast between how the evolutionists view this fossil vs. the Biblical explanation.  The holograms in it are really amazing!

Ken met a young boy in the museum café and asked if he was able to come back tomorrow when the Lucy exhibit opens and his mother said no…so Ken took him behind the curtain to show him the exhibit!  Wow! What a response. I continue to be amazed as to how the young children respond to Ken!  It may very well be that the biggest impact of the ministry will be yet to be seen until the next generation grows up.  Great PR for Ken as well. That boy will never forget it.

Couple of pictures here, Beverly being treated well by the Noah’s Café staff – Dr. Menton doing well from Chemo treatment.  (But pray much his wife has just found out she has stage three cancer as well!) 

This is our five year anniversary of the opening of the Creation museum!  So far attendance has reached 1,554,451!  That is a lot of people.

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