BIBLE BAPTIST IS PASTORED BY PHIL WILLIARD AND IS IN HARRISON, IL. A SMALL TOWN TWENTY-EIGHT MILES FROM ROCKFORD, IL. PHIL AND HIS CHURCH INVITED TONS OF PEOPLE FOR THIS RALLY INCLUDING THE DORAN, IL. VFW AS THE HONOR GUARD. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE MOST OF THESE MEN WERE LOST. THE LORD ALLOWED ME TO ORGANIZE THIS COLOR GUARD SO THAT THEY NOT ONLY PRESENTED THE COLORS BUT SAT ON THE FRONT ROW PEWS ALL ACROSS THE CHURCH. WHAT A CAPTIVE CREW I HAD, THEY ALL HAD THEIR WEAPONS AT THEIR SIDE WITH WHICH THEY WOULD LATER PROVIDE A TWENTY-ONE GUN SALUTE AND RENDER TAPS TO CLOSE THE CEREMONY. THE LORD SAVED NINE, MAYBE TEN OF THESE MEN AND ONE NAVY CORPSMAN FEMALE ALONG WITH SIX OTHERS IN THE MORNING SERVICE. THREE OF THE MEN THAT I CORRECTED BEFORE THE SERVICE ABOUT SWEARING GOT SAVED, A VISITING MAN AND HIS WIFE WERE SAVED, AN EIGHTY-ONE YEAR OLD WORLD WAR II VETERAN WAS SAVED AFTER TELLING ME THAT HE WAS A HEATHEN AND COULD NOT BE SAVED - WELL, GOD SAVED HIM. THIS WAS A SERVICE THAT THE LORD TOOK OVER AS ONLY OUR HEAVENLY FATHER COULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED WHAT HAPPENED THIS SUNDAY MORNING. THEN, SUNDAY EVENING THE LORD SAVED THREE TEENAGE GIRLS, ALL VISITORS. NEEDLESS TO SAY WE WERE BESIDE OURSELVES, OUR EYES GLEAMED AND OUR STEP QUICKENED WITH THIS HAPPINESS THAT COMES FROM SERVING AND BEING WITH THE DEAR LORD