Merry Christmas from Roach, MO! We spent our first Christmas here at the MTC … just the 4 of us enjoying being together and enjoying the day. It was lazy. It was full of laughter and good food. It was memory filled. We even took some time outside to take a few pictures. It was that […]
Pal Baptisms
In short – 2 different days, 230 Pal men, women, and teenagers declared publicly their faith in Jesus Christ. During the first half of this year we taught through the book of Acts sharing with the Pal people how God’s gospel spread from Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth. They […]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from our home to yours.
Burdett Holiday Greetings!
It is so good to be back in the Dom ministering among His people. Time is spending its way past us as it always does and even though it seems like we just got here two months have come and gone already. It took a while to set up our home and ministry; unpacking, cleaning, […]
December Praise & Prayer
Praise: For continued rain interspersed with dry. The Dom people’s food is growing. For a good size literacy class, that some from the outreaches have come, for the helpers that I have Funds so we can buy food for the Dom people Brian has a better job that he enjoys more and it pays more […]
Ostman Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving - more than an American holiday! A time to thank God.
End of the Semester!!!
We are finally at the end of the semester!!! We finished our three week language practicum on May 1st and have finished classes. All the students have left so now it’s time for summer at the Ranch. I can’t believe we are already done! Here are some photos of what […]
in their hands!
We had the most wonderful time in Panama for the Kuna leadership conference. It’s always a thrill to be able to reconnect with our Kuna friends, study God’s Word together, sing and hear reports of how God is working in the churches. But the thing that touched our hearts the most was something that they […]
Kuna missionaries
We have such a great respect for so many of our Kuna brothers and sisters in Panama! Anelio & Silverixia are a young couple that were sent out as missionaries by their church to a village upriver. You may remember that in 2009, while returning to the village where they minister, they lost their 3 year old son […]
Last day with 3 PPMMP Students
Today was our last day with Anton, Sam & Anis. Tomorrow they will be on their way by ship to Sulawesi to attend the missionary training center. We along with a couple co-workers had lunch with two of the guys mentioned above. Sam was visiting his dad in the hospital. Pray for Sam’s dad. After […]