A LITTLE TOUCHED IN THE HEAD…

August 15, 2019

Have you ever thought about what possesses people to walk away from perfectly good careers with great salaries and good benefits; away from a substantial retirement portfolio; away from nice homes or away from a dream vacation to pursue reaching out to people who remain unengaged with the gospel? …Or as Jesus said in Matthew […]

Summer, summer, summer…

July 30, 2019

Has anyone out there in newsletter land ever looked at your spiritual condition and exclaimed “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved?” (Jeremiah 8:20) Even when we were dead in our trespasses and sins not many of us considered ourselves dead. …And most likely we didn’t think much about […]

I GUESS IT JUST DOESN’T GET ANY BETTER THAN THAT…

July 10, 2019

I recently read the accomplishments of an aging man, who, as a young man, established himself quite well in life to train and equip people with specialty skills used in the movie making industry. While his accolades are many, that’s really all he has when he leaves this life. Yes, his legacy will live on […]

NO OTHER WAY

June 10, 2019

It’s just like going down a road in rural Kentucky. We learned there was one way and one way only to get from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’ in the area where we lived as young missionaries in training. As one local resident told us when we moved there, “You ain’t got no other way […]

You went where???

May 2, 2019

I haven’t ridden a motor coach in ages. Matter of fact the last time I can recall riding one was traveling a treacherous highway that led us into an area of jungle in Central Brazil. At one point we all disembarked from the bus even though the driver told us that the rickety bridge would […]

WHAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU DIDN’T KNOW

April 8, 2019

When we lived in Papua New Guinea it took around three weeks for a letter from the USA to arrive in New Guinea. Not bad, if you weren’t expecting a letter and one just showed up. However, we did not live at the location where mission mail arrived… we lived interior, in the tropical rainforest […]

OUT OF STEP

March 1, 2019

When I was a high school sophomore my position on the brass line in the marching band was shifted two spots to the left just moments before we went on-field for the homecoming halftime show. That meant an adjustment of four steps in all of my lateral choreography and two less steps forward. No huge […]

Budget Heart

January 3, 2019

Imagine getting in on a class to learn the related parts of the human anatomy in respect of heart surgery five weeks into the course. Think what you would have missed. Wait, you can’t even think about what you missed because you don’t know what you missed. How would you understand what is being described […]

GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE… YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

December 4, 2018

Let me introduce you to my friends, the Wolgemuth’s from Lititz Pennsylvania. Tim and Tina met and married more than 15 years ago. Coming from strong Christian backgrounds, they both grew up with an interest in missions and were willing to go anytime at God’s bidding. Meanwhile, they settled into family life and a career while […]

Security

September 28, 2018

We don’t think much of going out after dark. We leave secure homes with brightly lit surroundings and elaborate security systems. We secure those secure homes with secure locks and signs warning would-be-intruders they’d better think twice before they consider breaking and entering. We drive safe cars with backup cameras and monitoring devices. We use GPS enabled […]