Long hours at the office, running Evan around three evenings a week, and meeting with people two or three nights a week has me feeling a bit worn. I’m taking next week off to go backpacking. I find backpacking alone a good way to get away from all the distractions and focus on what God […]
Thank you for praying about Jackie and the week! We’ve just heard that Jackie’s vision problem is harmless. And this week is shaping up well. It’s been a bit less hectic than I expected, but more importantly, it’s been easier to find proper focus — on what God has in mind for the week.
Would you like to be able to see and hear tribal believers tell you how faith in Christ has changed their lives? You can. In fact, you can have almost the same vantage point I had when I went to Indonesia, as you listen to Dagamee, Ediapiya, Iyodotabo and Paiye. Brief videos of their testimonies […]
PS Please pray this week that we keep a godly perspective and keep His priorities in focus, because it’s going to be an exceptionally busy one. Ian is involved in three days of NTM USA leadership meetings. We’re both attending a seminar Friday and Saturday. Wednesday is our son Evan’s birthday. Ian has to get […]
Our oldest daughter, Jackie, continues to struggle with vertigo, and now is having what could be serious vision problems. She’s been to a doctor, and the situation is being monitored, and it may simply pass. Please pray that it does.
One of the reasons we don’t really understand what the Bible means when it says, “Encourage one another,” is that there are not precise translations for the two words the Bible uses for encourage. That’s why those words are translated also as comfort, exhort and help. So let’s delve into these words a bit more […]
[singlepic id=260 w=320 h=240 float=left] Did you know missions is like bagpiping? Not just because they both attract some people and send others running. Missions is like bagpiping because both take a team of people doing unnoticed things to bring it all together. Our oldest daughter, Jackie, plays swing tenor in Rosie O’Grady’s Highlanders here […]
Did you ever study Romans? I mean, really study it? If you have, you’re just starting to understand the difficulty of the task before missionary Terry Reed and his co-worker Santos as they translate Romans into the language of the Guarijio people of Mexico. Romans is a complex book, presenting some heady ideas. But at […]
In our first painting, you saw a picture of a man who had to resolve to wait for the Gospel to come to his people. But why? Missionaries had shared the Gospel with the Mibu people, and now the Mibus were reaching out to share the Good News with another group. Why couldn’t the missionaries […]