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"It doesn't make a bit of sense," Dave shook his head as he tried to figure out the problem.

When Dave's home church first brought up the idea of sending a work team to replace our roof, Dave immediately realized the monetary value of such a gift.

"Is Joy afraid of all this noise?" was a common question during the roofing project. If Joy could talk, I think she would say....

Nathan was eager to help, and ecstatic when the old roof was stripped off and the dry-in was done, cause that was when Dave allowed him onto the roof.

Servant hearts, a vision for helping, and youthful enthusiasm got the job done.

Five computer systems are ready to go to Brazil. National missionaries will be using them in their Bible translation work. Pray for couriers to deliver the computers.  

Arthur, one of our long-time supporters, shared the idea with Dave years ago…
Come on in…. Let me explain the “revolving fund.”

One of the purposes for revising the Building on Firm Foundations series is to rewrite anything that would be difficult to transfer from English into other languages.
We catch a lot, but not everything. For example, the apostrophe....

Mr. McIlwain and I (Ruth) have sent Volume 5 of the Building on Firm Foundations series to Carol Kaptain to review. Carol is an NTM translation consultant. We rely on her to find anything in the lessons that would be difficult to transfer into other languages.  Pray that Carol would catch any transfer problems so that we […]

The pitch on the back half of our roof is 2.3 to 12. (That's 2 1/3 inches rise to every foot.)

Dave is learning about pitch and shingles and overhangs because ...