Returning to the Philippines

March 17, 2010

We arrived in Manila Saturday, February 5, 2010! Darryl is doing great after a whirlwind trip of visiting 3 different emergency rooms in the States and a 2 day stay in a hospital for prostate surgery while traveling home for a short 3 weeks break to visit our relatives for the holidays that extended into […]

A visit from our Son

March 16, 2010

We were blessed with a visit from our son Paul. He came with a Salem Oregon church group. Some of this group was here to evangelize and the others were here to help build a new church building on another island. After they departed, Paul flew to Palawan to visit us. We did have the […]

150 Miles in 8 Hours!

March 5, 2010

As guest house managers, we serve 12 missionary families on this island and last week Tim, our chairman, and I had the opportunity to visit one of our remote tribal works where Ray ministers. We have helped with this work in many ways. Purchasing groceries and building supplies for them and shipping these items to […]

Back on the Job

February 21, 2010

We returned to our guesthouse ministry the first of February. While people have come and gone, the paper work and accounting was put on hold because of our delay in returning. While, there were lots of things to record and enter, that whole process went fairly smoothly. We did return to a “full house”. All […]

Pictures

January 19, 2010

Darryl and David playing Wii Mario Cart–Like father–like son! Darryl Post-op with Hannah and Caleb!

A funny thing happened to me on my way to Portland!

January 19, 2010

Our first year in the Philippines has come and gone. We did find ourselves busy with running and maintaining the guesthouse, building new units, purchasing/shipping for our missionaries and the bookkeeping involved with all of that. During this same time we were hearing some unsettling news concerning the health of our mothers. So we decided […]

Typhoon Ondoy

September 28, 2009

Typhoon Ondoy passed through Metro Manila and central Luzon last Saturday and left at least 106 people dead and missing. The death toll caused by Ondoy (international codename: Ketsana) is expected to rise as the country’s capital region struggled Sunday to recover from its worst flooding in 42 years. We are grateful for all who […]