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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Greetings from the “launchpad” of Ethnos360, its Bible Institute in Wisconsin! July is travel month for us, but as soon as we get back August 4th there is a lot to do for next school year. Ken readies student apartments for occupancy; Andrea organizes training for Childcare interns and orientation for new families. Staff kickoff […]

Dear PRAYing family and friends, We’ve been back “home” in Sheridan for several weeks now. We had the great joy of having most of our family together for several days in Bozeman last month. My brother, Greg, and some of his family have been down to Sheridan a few times since we got home so […]