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An “All Hands on Deck” Moment

An “All Hands on Deck” Moment

We have a regular post about ready to publish with details on how Joel’s recent trips have been as well as life on the home-front, but we’ve got to bring something more urgent to your attention today. Long story short, we are facing a funding emergency. Here is where we’re at and how we need your […]
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Where do missions fit into the local church? 

Where do missions fit into the local church? 

The theme of missions, encompassing God’s redemptive plan for all nations and the sending of messengers to proclaim it, weaves throughout the entirety of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. It’s the unifying message revealing God’s desire for all people to know and worship him.  We’ve had the blessed privilege of focusing on this element […]
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Why are we so persistent in presenting the challenge of the Great Commission?

Why are we so persistent in presenting the challenge of the Great Commission?

While there are many challenges in reaching the unreached world with the gospel, the real challenge is for us to understand the Great Commission and our response in obedience to do what Jesus commissioned us to do.  Matthew 28:18-20 is the most well-known biblical record of what is commonly referred to extra-biblically as “the Great […]
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Why haven’t I ever heard about this at my church?

Why haven’t I ever heard about this at my church?

Stories… our lives are made up of stories, and the best of them, perhaps not always recognized in the moment, have God at the foundation.  Sometimes those stories turn into God-sized experiences. Back in 2013, I gave my wife, Joyce, a unique Christmas gift: I enrolled her in the Perspectives study course, offered by Perspectives […]
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A Snapshot into Animism

A Snapshot into Animism

Human nature… it is made up of many facets.  There are the ‘get-all-you-can-while-you-can’ thinkers who grasp for stuff while doing as little as possible – the kind of individuals who want something for nothing.  We call it greed.  It’s the stuff that motivates criminals and scammers, perhaps others, too.  But human nature is comprised of […]
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BREATHLESS

BREATHLESS

I got to the top of the cliff… breathless and panting, my lungs feeling like they were about to explode.  I was wheezing.  Why was I wheezing?  I was used to rigorous hikes and didn’t mind the strain of hard climbs, but for some reason it felt like someone had taken a turkey baster and […]
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Fire and Ashes …

Fire and Ashes …

When joining New Tribes Mission, now Ethnos360, (Jared in 1972 and Diana in 1976), and starting our training in Baker, Oregon, Jared and I, often heard of the Rattlesnake Fire in Mendocino National Forest in 1953. Fifteen men died in that fire, fourteen of them were volunteers from the mission’s training facility at Fouts Spring. […]
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The Third Will Be First

The Third Will Be First

To no one’s surprise in our family, Luke (our third child) was the first to get married.  Thus, the title of this update. A few days before the wedding, we traveled over to Wisconsin to help with some the wedding preparations and to spend a little bit of time with Delainey’s family. Luke and Delainey’s […]
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What is Ethnos México, Anyways?

What is Ethnos México, Anyways?

Over sixteen years ago, after four years of Bible and cross-cultural ministry training, Beth and I became members of a mission organization called Ethnos360 (formerly New Tribes mission). Our four years of training included two years at Ethnos360 Bible Institute, a year break to get married and serve in our home church, and then two […]
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Travel Blessings!

Travel Blessings!

Dear Friends and Family, Thank you! God has been blessing us abundantly since we started traveling on June 12th. The Airline that has a 50% rate of on time departure, got us to Port Moresby the day we were due to arrive! We were amazed to watch God work through many ways: our church family, […]
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