Dear Pastor and Friends:

I was in the living room at home yesterday checking the news just after lunch. Dottie came out of the bedroom and asked me if I felt the earthquake. I said no and we waited a few minutes and she went back into the bedroom and I continued checking the news. The next thing I knew our whole house started to sway back and forth. The doors and windows were making loud noises, the lights and fans were swinging back and forth and as I yelled for her to get outside she came running out of the bedroom and we both made a mad dash for the outside. We were out in the yard for a few minutes watching to see if our house was going to withstand this or not. Then it was over. We thank the Lord that when it was all over we only had a crack around one of the columns holding up the roof of our house and a picture fell off the wall in the church.

We had our second anniversary service on the 7th of October and we had a wonderful day. We had all day services with dinner on the ground, as we use to say. The church was completely full and quite a number on the outside. We estimated between 150 and 160. We never did get a correct count. People were coming and going all day. But the good news is that we had 10 people accept the Lord as their Saviour.

We would like to ask you to help us pray for Frank Tomokane. He was raised a Catholic and got saved a few years back and has recently started coming to our church. He has never been baptized. He is now talking about being baptized. Please pray that he will follow the Lord in baptism and be faithful to serve Him.

We would also like you to help us pray for Bobby, my song director. He is from the Philippines and is an accountant and has been working on Saipan for 10 years. The Lord has been dealing with him about preaching. He has been a tremendous help with the work since we've been here. In all the years I have been a missionary I have never had anyone to help me like this man. Pray that he will be like Samuel and say, "Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth."

Please continue to pray for us also and the Lord's work here in the Islands.

Thank you for your many prayers and may God continue to bless you all.

                                                                   In Him,

        David & Dottie McClure

Sending Church:  Massillon Baptist Temple, 1219 Overlook Ave. SW, Massillon, OH 44647

Taking God's Word to the Islands

US ADDRESS: P. O. Box 13459, Arlington. TX 76094                                Field Address:  P. O. Box 506590 CK, Saipan, MP 96950