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While Jim was in town picking up our truck, he bought more fish and rice to help in the drought relief.  The sweet potato plants are growing but no sweet potatoes.  Often if not enough balance of sun and rain the leaves grow well but no sweet potatoes.  Now it has basically been dry for […]

              We got our truck back! We met up with a fellow missionary in our nearest town to pick up the vehicle. We had been using our coworkers’ truck while ours was in the shop. So our fellow missionary, Bill, drove ours up and we drove our coworkers’ down and […]

This time it seemed harder to leave… We have 4 beautiful, loving, grandchildren who are far too young to understand why these grandparents seemed so intentional with the goodbyes this time… They don’t yet understand where and why we have to go. And then there were the goodbye kisses planted on cheeks of aging parents […]

Did you know that there are many tribes just begging for missionaries to come to share the Good News about Christ with them? There are several tribes that have heard about other tribes being taught about Jesus, and they are asking for someone to come and share in their language, but there are not enough […]

As time marches on and we continue to prepare for our time of home assignment (starting June 2016), I thought I would share some thoughts. Home assignment, also known as furlough, is a time for reconnecting with ministry partners and churches, meeting and connecting with new ministry partners and churches, addressing any medical/health/education/other issues, rest & refreshment. What […]

Thankfully there is no mustard on the guitar. But with kids you never know what you might get. A few months ago, Ginger and I were just talking about the ministry and how the kids were doing in school. We realized that with four kids, none of them seemed to be getting any one-on-one time […]

  Gwandambi, the Simbari boy who had a bone infection, has continued to make good progress. His cast has been removed and one of our mission’s physical therapists is helping him to regain motion and build up strength in the leg. He is walking with a cane now instead of crutches. Around Christmas many Simbari […]

As we near the end of our language and culture studies, we started to take the next step, a literacy program. We are still in the development stages, but it is exciting to finally start doing something else besides language learning. And, it is even more exciting to think about the day the Glarro will […]