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Take My Case to God 08-07-2024

Take My Case to God 08-07-2024

Bible Reading (August 7 2024) What is God saying to me today? Job 13:1-5 “Look, I have seen all this with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears, and now I understand. I know as much as you do. You are no better than I am. As for me, I would speak […]
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Patient Endurance 08-11-24

Patient Endurance 08-11-24

Bible Reading (August 11) What Spiritual Gift has God given for me to thank Him and praise Him for in worship today? (Rom 1:11) 1 Peter 2:24 He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds […]
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July/August 2024

July/August 2024

What do those missionaries teach anyway? Recently I was reminded that there are a lot of misconceptions about foreign missions.  It reminded me of something I heard a speaker say to some high school students attending a diversity day event many years ago.  Talking about the middle eastern religion she followed, she said, ‘It is […]
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We bckc yav.

We bckc yav.

When we lived in the bush, we hiked everywhere. The Pal people don’t live in one or two main villages; they live in fifty tiny villages spread all over the mountains. From our house, we could hike for about 45 minutes in either direction and reach 10 of them, but for access to any others […]
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Nursing Program

Nursing Program

Thank you for keeping us in your prayers. Areli got accepted into the RN program to become a nurse! We are very excited and proud of her. She plans to move back to the community college dorms about August 20 and start classes on the 26th. It’s a fairly intense 2-year program, so we appreciate […]
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Thankful and blessed, our hearts are full!

Thankful and blessed, our hearts are full!

Travel You may have noticed it has been a while since our last update! We spent time in seven states over the past six weeks. We had a wonderful week with our daughter and family in Western NY State, and our son, Robert, even surprised us with a visit the last week of June. Lance […]
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On The Road Again

On The Road Again

Our family always looks forward to Ethnos México’s biannual field conferences. The kids love laid back time with friends right after the school year ends, alternating between VBS-style classes and time poolside in the summer heat. For Amy and I, the short week is a rare, precious chance for fellowship with our far-flung coworkers in […]
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A Time of Transition

A Time of Transition

On July 14th we officially moved out of our apartment in Massachusetts that we moved into exactly a year ago. When we moved out two weeks ago, Grace said goodbye to her room. Since then she has already slept in six different beds while we’ve been traveling, and by mid-August she will probably have been […]
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Summertime

Summertime

We’ve been back on the field for 5 months already, and we have been pretty busy at times. Some highlights have been finishing homeschooling the kids, traveling to another island to get new visas back in June, helping host a group of younger people interested in missions as well as doing different things with our […]
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Teamwork

Teamwork

The 7th Sports Bible Camp (SBC) broke records numerically and geographically with over 100 players in attendance from two locations.  What does this mean?  The spread of the Gospel went further than ever before.  Praise the Lord! After weeks and months of preparing and training, we expected God, the Head Coach, to put us, Stephen […]
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