Creekbank Stories Curt Iles, Storyteller

  A Word from Curt: The word is Mother. Today’s blog honors my Mom, Mary Iles   Key Prayer Need: Shane Wilber, JD Hull, Charlie Bailey and I are Up Country Uganda among the Kakwa people.  Pray for a week of connecting, teaching/learning and Gospel seed sowing.   Walt Disney and My Mom   Everyone probably believes their mother is the …

It’s Sunday. With your permission, we’re mentioning several prayer requests for Uganda and our region of Africa. As you worship today, please share these with your friends, families, and fellow church members. 1.  Our Louisiana team (Charlie Bailey, Shane Wilber, and me) are joining Koboko Baptist Church in worship today.  Pray for a Spirit-filled service as well as the Kakwa …

A word from Curt Today is a travel day Up Country. Upcountry is that part of Uganda above the Nile River. It’s Wild. Open. Rustic. Beautiful. Frustrating. Pray for Charlie, Shane, and me as we travel. I can’t wait to show Shane Wilber this spot on the road north.   David Platt is the new leader of our organization, the …

Reading friends, Today is a brief blog. I’ve been sick all week with a viral digestive bug.  Pray for healing.  I leave Saturday for a trip Up Country with my home church in Louisiana. Two things are on my mind and heart: One: Birthdays in South Sudan Two:  Books I’ve been reading.   Birthdays  We’re working on Visas for an …

Author note:  We recently ran this post and many of you enjoyed it. My new colleague, J.D. Hull, went to meet Mr. Johnson and the excellent photos included here show his artistic eye and touch. In addition to photography, J.D. is an excellent writer.  You can follow his blog at http://www.jdhblog.net/. A Word from Curt Providence. It’s a good word. A …

This story’s too good not to share. The best stories always poke fun at the writer.  This fits the bill. Enjoy!     The Suggestion Box I still laugh everytime I think about it. The year was 1990. My friend and mentor, L.D. Spears, had taken a year of sabbatical and left East Beauregard High School in the shaky hands …

It’s Sunday. With your permission, we’re mentioning several prayer requests for Uganda and our region of Africa. As you worship today, please share these with your friends, families, and fellow church members. 1.  Pray for our colleague J.D. “Jonathan” Hull.  J.D. is scheduled to move into the South Sudanese Bush with  team members the Lane and Jeremiadoss families.  His priority …

It’s Saturday. You’re beginning your day (if you’re in America). We’re eight hours ahead and watching the African sun sinking lower. It’s a good time to look back over the recent week(s) and share photos. Ververt Monkey. He may look cute but he’s a four-legged thief. UN trucks on their way to the South Sudan war zone.  Taken on the …

3 Key Prayer Points: Our home church, Dry Creek Baptist (La), arrives on May 7 for a week among their people group, the Kakwa. Curt and DeDe as they plan a late May trip to the Gambela region of Ethiopia. Wisdom and safety as we choose where to go in the coming months.               …

  A word from Curt Africans call it “Footing.” It’s a verb.  As in “I’m footing today.” I’ve discovered that to really know Africa, one must “go footing.” Or as we’d say back home in the land of the pines and missing g’s, Footin.     I grew up at the dead end of a one mile gravel road. Daddy …

A Word from Curt: We’re on Day 11 of our Nairobi hospital stay. Today’s word is Gratitude. I’ve been without diarrhea for over 24 hours. This is the longest dry spell (literally and figuratively) since early May. Still have a long ways to go but we’re moving ahead. DeDe and I cherish your prayers.   To my early readers:   I …

If you see dirt, throw seeds. It’s called Gospel seed-sowing. And our folks back home are involved in it here in Africa. Our home association of churches, Beauregard Baptist Association, has been an integral part of our work in Africa. This is a compilation of various ways they are involved. Beauregard Baptist Family, Greetings from DeDe and I. We are …

You may not have any desire to come to South Sudan and its borderlands. But that doesn’t mean you cannot pray. You can pray for these churches and pastors from your prayer closet in America. But be warned:  these strategic leaders and churches may capture your heart and you’ll find yourself on an airplane bound for Africa. You were warned. …

  Yesterday we shared Chapter 15 from our novel, A Good Place. This part of the novel continues with Chapter 16. Enjoy!   Chapter 16 I THOUGHT about picking Bo up to tote home, but any attempt to move him brought a terrible whimpering, and anyway, he weighed too much for me to carry that far. Leaving him was out …