Sound quality

July 13, 2022

During my training to run the sound board at church here, the philosophy was “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.” “This isn’t important,” he would say, and then adjust the setting that had just be deemed unimportant. Compare this with another man I met who practiced another philosophy. “This pen still has ink,” […]

God provided a place

June 17, 2021

I lived eight months at the training center and it never quite felt like home. For the first few months in Wisconsin, I felt even more out of place. Now, God has provided a little townhouse for Ely and I to live in for the first few months of marriage before we move to our […]

God creates unity

March 1, 2021

When Ely and I were dating long distance, one way we decided to make Christmas special was to open advent calendars each day over the phone. I found a cheap chocolate one, and she came up empty at a couple of stores. I promised that I’d get her an advent calendar some other time, and […]

How many Bibles do you have?

October 1, 2020

The Bible is the worlds all-time best selling book, with billions of copies in print. It’s a hard statistic to track, since there are so many versions, languages, and publishers, but one statistic that I found estimated around 5 billion have been printed. Since the world population is 7.5 billion, and I can count 8 […]

Supporting a missionary explainer video

July 21, 2020

I made a little video to remind people that when you write a check, it should be made out to Ethnos360 with a note saying who its for. Check it out on Youtube:

Mail delivery

July 7, 2018

There’s a letter for me! An unknown student of a Christian school in the United States reminded me of how encouraging a little bit of communication can be. Speaking of which, it has been one of my goals to send postcards to my supporters. I’ve picked out a handful that don’t seem completely tourist-y, and […]

Christmas on the river

January 5, 2018

The adventures began at the first airport. The flight was delayed due to weather, and I got a new itinerary right away, expecting to miss the first connection in Chicago. Though the airline wasn’t able to provide free rooms to the many, many affected people, they did provide cots and bags of toiletries to ease […]

Why Brazil? A list of 8 reasons

May 5, 2017

Life is full of possibilities. How is it that I have chosen to go to Brazil? 1. A personal need to serve Jesus told all His disciples to go and make more disciples. Each person had unique character traits and gifts that equipped them to carry out their commission in a uniquely effective way. Peter’s […]

Check engine light

March 22, 2017

This week I’ve been working on replacing the neutral safety switch in my car. The check engine light has been warning about this for months, but it’s only when the car failed to start that it became important enough to replace. A quick look through Proverbs reveals a host of warnings against foolishness, laziness, strange […]

Change in plans; trip delayed

March 11, 2017

Today I was planning on being on the road to Arkansas. March weather has interfered with threats of rain, snow and ice. A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. Proverbs 16:9 Thanks be to God for His direction.