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The MK You Are

February 17, 2018

I think this is going to be a somewhat shorter post, but I wanted to get something down on paper or cyber space or somewhere before it gets lost in the storm of life, events, work, priorities, responsibilities and whatever else blows around in where thinking happens. Much has been written about TCKs (third culture […]

A TINY GLIMPSE

January 4, 2018

50 plus years ago dark, menacing clouds pressed down on the green jungle which starkly outlined both banks of the river. Our engines were hard pressed to make headway as they labored to push the heavily loaded boats against the swift and swirling current. It was rainy season and the river was full. We weren’t […]

HOME for CHRISTMAS

December 19, 2017

Finding paper to wrap gifts could be problematic out there in the jungle, but this very special surprise couldn’t be wrapped anyway. The story began in November of that year when an Indian man, who lived in the area where I, as a single missionary was working, came for medical help. It right away […]

Watching The Boats

December 13, 2017

One morning not long ago our Florida weather bypassed the usual afternoon thunderstorm and brought us a damp, grey drizzly dawn. I was immediately taken back in my mind to the country of these posts and to the time and place when we “watched the boats”. If you have read very many of these posts […]

That One Thing

September 27, 2017

Till you get to the core expression of any truth there’s usually more hidden inside waiting to be discovered. This was illustrated in a conversation we had many years ago with a tribesman about “his neck of the woods”. All of us involved in the conversation lived in a village in his neck of the […]

DOWN AT THE ROCK

March 12, 2017

Over a period of almost 50 years from the 1950s and into the 2000s any missionary kid who had either lived at the school or boarded there spent a significant amount of time down at the river. For some, staff included, going for a dip in the river at the end of the day took […]

Charlie The Alligator Or It Looks Like Rain

January 25, 2017

During the years Diana and I served at the school for missionary children in the country of these posts I had the privilege of taking a good number of students on week-end outings. Some were one day fishing trips and others were overnighters at a favorite place like a big flat rock at the river’s […]

THE LAST BEND IN THE RIVER

April 27, 2015

Long periods of sustained hard blowing wind isn’t something common to the jungle. The predictable mid afternoon thunder storms that sweep in from the east during the transition between seasons bring hard blowing winds but last only only till the storm blows through. Aas noted in previous posts the dry season wind which is really […]

The Dugout

February 7, 2015

In the early days the boats we used to transport people and cargo along the labyrinth of rivers in our part of the Amazon were dugout canoes. Some were the original nothing added design and others had been modified with planked up sides. Without these canoes the goings and comings of the missionaries and the […]

Sometimes Heavy

May 1, 2014

I like to post lighter stories about the jungle and our friends who live there but the reality of missionary work is that it can be very heavy and intense on a spiritual level. This short post touches on that reality, When heading out to an area basically untouched by the Gospel of Jesus Christ […]