Howie Update

August 14, 2016

Our daughter, Michelle, wrote: “Seven long hours at the hospital and now we are back in our camper. I just took a few minutes to walk up to the beach and check out the sunset. The ocean is my happy place. The CAT scan with dye showed that both arteries in his neck are completely […]

Urgent – pray for our daughter

August 12, 2016

Our daughter, Michelle, and her husband, Howie, have been traveling all summer in the northern mid and western US hauling a 5th wheel camper with their truck. Yesterday she wrote: “Please pray. I don’t know what’s going on but yesterday afternoon Howie started acting strange. I had a hard time understanding him. He mixes words […]

The Normal Heart and the Helicopter

July 19, 2015

First Gene’s Heart PRAISE the Lord with us. Gene had an appointment with his cardiologists, Dr Alagadan and Dr Rocha (cardiac surgeon) earlier this month. He had had an echo-cardiogram done shortly after his heart attack in May last year. It showed three areas of weakness as a result of the heart attack. Dr Rocha […]

Typhoon Aftermath

December 12, 2012

The Manubu’ have been hit hard by the typhoon. For the past few years their main source of income has been harvesting trees that they plant and selling the logs. They say that most of those trees were blown over by the typhoon while still too small to harvest. Most of the logs they had […]

Hit by a Typhoon

December 4, 2012

You may have heard that a typhoon hit our island today. Just want to let you know how we and the Manubu’ here in our village fared. Still raining some as we write this, although the wind has stopped. This was the strongest typhoon we have experienced. Our 60ft high cell phone antenna pole broke […]