- Part 4

Looking Backward; Motivating Forward…

December 11, 2016

As we draw near to the close of another year we are thankful for each opportunity that we’ve had to serve the interest of missions. We logged more miles than we anticipated with well over five-hundred-fifty meetings across 326 days of the last 12 months. It’s encouraging to see young couples and families stepping out […]

Perspectives on the World Christian Movement

November 21, 2016

Perspectives on the World Christian Movement… offered nation-wide We are in the final push to encourage folks to sign up for the 2017 Perspectives Intensives Course that my wife, Joyce, directs. The last day to register is December 15th –early-bird discounts will be available until December 1st. The course is slated for January 2-7, 2017. […]

Commending God’s Workmen for the Harvest

November 21, 2016

We Commend Unto You the Sanford’s… We recently connected with some of our newly equipped […]

Where in the World are We Headed?

November 21, 2016

Polls are a good thing, you know, keeping us abreast of current issues and how they play out in day-to-day life. Polls also contribute to monitoring the effort of where we are going as the church. Let me share with you how we are doing so far as sending out Harvest workers from among those […]

“ILLITERATE??? Dial 1-800-READ”

September 11, 2016

We all take for granted our ability to read and just how deeply entrenched we are with it. Breakfast wouldn’t be breakfast if I couldn’t read the calorie content or the number of grams of trans fat contained in my cereal or eggs. It seems we all are driven by attaining knowledge of such […]

Flippin’ Tables

August 25, 2016

That girl I mentioned in my *previous post –the one I dated at age 16, who confronted me about life-long relationships and missions? Here’s the rest of the story. She had this mission’s thing in her head since she was about eight years of age. Matter of fact, back then she wanted to be a missionary nurse. […]

We knew we wanted nothing more than to be involved with reaching people who would never hear the gospel…

August 16, 2016

At the age of sixteen I met a girl who intrigued me. She asked some serious questions on our third date, questions I’d never before been confronted with. The question that stopped me in my tracks was when she asked if our relationship were to become life-long, would I consider being a missionary. In my […]

We won’t ‘fly you to the moon…’

July 4, 2016

The Old Days I recall hearing horror stories of missionaries traveling to destinations by ship. They certainly were not the cruise lines of today. –Some journeys took as long as two months; some of those journeys were taken on vessels that called in question their sea-worthiness; and some of those missionaries who journeyed on questionable […]

Who ya’ gonna’ call???

July 2, 2016

Relational elements of life are a cherished blessing to just about everyone I know although it may interest you to realize that it plays out a little differently in some cultures. Take the case study we encountered among an unreached people group who view life a little differently than we do. In western civilization our first […]

Chopped Fingers

May 26, 2016

An animistic worldview brings adherents face-to-face with some pretty stark stuff. Imagine a mother birthing twins and then throwing them away. That’s pretty stark, isn’t it? You see, it is forbidden in some cultures to permit twin babies to live as twins are considered a bad prognostication of the spirits. You’re probably thinking ‘how horrid […]