The Best Terrible News from Home

August 12, 2017

We’ve been back in the States for a few weeks now and it’s been awhile since we’ve heard from anybody in the church in Patpatar. One of the elders of the church named Tokiung called me from a small town almost an hour from the village. He was waiting there with his family and all […]

Broken Bones

January 27, 2016

One of the leaders of the clan told them that they would have to move out of the hamlet and that the teaching of God’s Word would no longer be allowed to happen there. Tokiung’s uncle was ‘at it again’ and this time it was even more severe. Tokiung, the pastor of the Patpatar church, […]

Sweat and Cappuccino

May 24, 2015

It was 6:30 on Saturday morning and the sun was just beginning to peak over the mountains in the East. With clear skies, and the temperature already at 85 degrees, it was shaping up to be another steamy tropical day. I set out in my flip-flops down the pitted graveled road winding down the coastline, […]

Dressed up as Satan

November 11, 2014

When Lori and I were dating, on occasion we would sing to each other a part of song that was popular then…“Do you dream of me?” It was a romantic gesture and felt good knowing that we were being ‘dreamed’ about. Now, I am being dreamed about again, but the feeling isn’t good. In America […]

What would you do?

May 27, 2014

You spent the morning in Church with other believers having fellowship and studying God’s Word and return to your thatch house built on poles about 5 foot off the ground. You’ve hardly had time to sit down with your daughters and grandchildren which you’ve helped raise alone since your husband left you years ago, and […]