The waiting game

November 4, 2010

We came to Manila almost 4 weeks ago with plans to stay here for just 10 days. We had doctors appointments and shopping to do. Then typhoon Megi (Juan) came through. This added 2 extra trips for Chuck to the tribe, first to secure the house, then to check and make sure the house was […]

Typhoon Megi (aka Juan)

October 25, 2010

As many of you have seen and heard from the news over the past week, our tribal area was directly hit by very powerful typhoon. Typhoon Megi, also known as Juan here in the Philippines was a category 5 when it made landfall last Monday. Even after passing over a mountain range and crossing approximately […]

Rain = running water = hot showers!!!

September 20, 2010

Last weekend our good missionary friend Bob came in to finish the plumbing in our house. We had sewage pipes already but no water pipes. In the process of getting things ready for Bob, an important fitting for our water holding tank was cracked. Thus the tank had to be emptied in order to fix […]

Wee little girl

September 19, 2010

We have introduced this family to you before but we want to ask you to pray especially for little Josilyn. She is turning one this month and is so very tiny. She weighs just 6 kg. A week ago we asked the family if we could give the baby some formula and baby cereal to […]

Born again

August 9, 2010

I’d like to announce the birth of another child into our family, our spiritual family that is. For some time now, we’ve had a pretty good idea that Charlotte was saved. More recently, both Shannon and I have seen evidence of that in her actions and what she says, particularly when we study the Bible […]