Meet Noah.
His mother was in an unfortunate marriage.
March Update
Pray that God will use all of these activities to bring many to the Savior
Delivering Ice to the Shambles
Ice is delivered daily to our local public market.
Selling Our Junk
For many, women and children includes, our trash is their livelihood
Simon Gill
Simon and Jinky Gill are some of the people that we’ve come to know and love.
Hard Times
People go through my garbage several times a day. The other day as I was leaving there was a grandmother and granddaughter going through my trash can. I had a piece of metal that I fetched and gave to them. They thanked me and I hope my meager efforts were a help to them.
Shipping Supplies into the Bush
From time to time we are called upon to get supplies and then to ship them on to our missionaries. Today I was up before 4 to take a van load of supplies to the bus terminal. The bus leaves at 5 am. The bus will take all of these supplies to an airstrip about […]
Typhoon Washi
Yesterday Typhoon Washi struck the island of Mindanao which is to the east of us. Hundreds of people have died in the flooding. The storm is moving north and will not directly strike our island of Palawan. We are grateful that we’ve been spared from this ordeal. Please pray for the many Filipino people who […]
Arbor Day in the Philippines
Today is Arbor Day here in the Philippines. I’ve was here on Arbor Day 2 years ago, so I didn’t want to miss it today. Thousands of people go to the “watershed” to plant a tree. At 5 am or earlier, kids start to congregate in the downtown area. Dump trucks come and haul these […]
Back to our Guesthouse Ministry
We’ve been back for a week now. Cleaning, Painting, Moving Settling in! Seen many of my old friends and making new ones. A wonderful reunion at our Baptist Church. And we are transitioning into our roll as guesthouse managers. Many changes and lots of work to be done! We are grateful to be back! One […]
Returning to the Philippines
We’ve had a wonderful furlough and are now back in Manila and preparing to move on to our Guesthouse Ministry. It has been interesting being here. I’m out every morning running and visiting with people as I go. Green Hills mall is about 2 miles from our Manila guesthouse. I run there every morning. The […]
Running in a foreign country.
If you can't see them....
Kelep
We recently heard that Willis and Jakurya’s son Kelep was seriously ill. This was complicated by bad weather and the lack of a plane to get them. After much prayer and hard work, this all came together. They were taken to Goroka Hospital and God provided a good pediatric physician. He discovered that Kelep had […]
ING Hartford Marathon
I’ve wanted to run a marathon for many years, yet there never seemed to be an opportunity. This year I found myself on Home Assignment in Connecticut. So there was no excuse. I use a 16 week running/training program. Yet a couple of weeks before the marathon I had serious thoughts as to whether I could […]
The Work Continues
Last week we were able to go and visit Stephen, Ginger and the kids. We were there for their weekly bible lesson. They were presenting the first lesson of Phase III, which has to do with the book of Acts and the Church. the meeting was well attended with about 70 people. At least one […]