Category: Prayer Request

Back to the Hospital

Back to the Hospital

We sure are getting to know the local hospital these days. On Tuesday we took Dylan to the hospital to get some tests because he was running a slight fever. After the tests they decided that he should be admitted right away and start on an IV for hydration and antibiotics. It’s now Friday and […]
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Here’s the Power!

Here’s the Power!

Thank you for praying! Within a day of asking for your prayers on our behalf for a generator to use during the power crisis here, a good friend and co-worker of ours responded and offered to lend us his generator for the months we will be without power here. The great thing about this is […]
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Where’s the Power?

Where’s the Power?

We have lived on Mindanao long enough to understand that the power company is doing their best to keep up with demand and has exceeded our expectations by keeping the power on most of the time. In fact, we were only loosing power maybe once a week for a few hours and that was it. […]
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A Big Push. A Big Reward

A Big Push. A Big Reward

We are finding that we are part of a life that comes in cycles. We go through slower times and then we go through crazy times. This is the tail end (we think) of one of the crazy times. Thanks for praying for us over these past two weeks. There was an 8 day stretch […]
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Cessna for Sale

Cessna for Sale

In January our first helicopter pilot arrived here in the Philippines to set up shop on Luzon and to get the helicopter program started. It was also last month that we learned that the SIL flight program on Luzon, which has been covering for us until we get a helicopter program started, will be leaving […]
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Announcing the New Flight Program

Announcing the New Flight Program

We are preparing for our annual conference and this year when we make our report we have some exciting news to share. We are officially announcing to all our missionaries that they can now schedule flights with NTMA on Mindanao. What a big provision from the Lord that we have reached our first of many […]
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Pig Traps and People, Continued…

Pig Traps and People, Continued…

When we received the call I was reassembling the airplane after the inspection while Ben and Garry worked on the paperwork. Ben came over to the plane with a smile on his face and said, "Well Brian, it looks like we're gonna have to fly this right away. A man in the tribe has stepped on a pig trap and..."
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Pig Traps and People Don’t Mix

Pig Traps and People Don’t Mix

About 4pm, we got word that some guys were carrying Isol to us, a young man, who had stepped into a pig trap in the jungle. The traps have a spring-loaded bamboo blade, which had gone right through one of his calves, and into the other calf.
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Still in The Water

Still in The Water

“They are still in the water!” This is what Hoseph said to Steve, the missionary, one afternoon while discussing and preparing the Bible lessons to be taught later that week.
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Racing Through Pain

Racing Through Pain

As we come to the end of our first year here in the Philippines we are tired and a bit battered from a really difficult first year, but we have learned the power of a a good cheering section.
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