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It’s been a while…

December 9, 2019

Wow… it’s been while, hasn’t it?! I mean, 3 years, c’mon! I’m not sure how many follow this little ministry blog, or, how many ever subscribed to it. We got to the point where sending out monthly updates on top of a monthly blog post just sort of became a little too much. What we […]

Visiting Grandpa

June 6, 2016

The Sanapaná live and die with no clear gospel witness in their own language and culture. While visiting this tribal community, our friends took us for a walk around the village. At the end of a path was our ultimate destination, a man the missionaries called “Grandpa.” We brought fresh tereré along with us in case he […]

My Name is La’enis

April 21, 2016

My feet hurt from walking all day, and they were cracked and bleeding from the dry ground. As I walked through the dust on the way back from hunting, I thought about what the kids would say when I came home empty handed again. They would cry. They cried a lot lately. Sure enough, everyone […]

Our God is Greater

March 9, 2016

Few can apreciate and understand all of what takes place within the church planting process. It’s no ones fault, there’s just no way to truly apreciate it unless you’re out there doing it. With bible teaching, translation, literacy, and other such jobs standing in the forefront, we fail to even realize what our missionaries are […]

The Chores Can Wait…

October 7, 2015

We knew that missionary life would look different from any other sort of lifestyle we’ve ever known. I can remember hearing testimony after testimony, story after story, of how different life looks on the opposite side of the world. But I was never really sure what that would look like for us as a family. I […]

“A Diamond in the Rough…”

September 18, 2015

It was a hunting accident gone wrong, and a man was shot. A complete mistake, and yet a mans life was now hanging in the balance… This story is not mine. It belongs to a friend of mine, who by sharing this story encouraged me to remember that God can use anyone in our lives to […]

Our 5 Biggest Blunders!

July 21, 2015

We’ve just completed a year of living and serving in Paraguay. That’s pretty exciting! At times it feels like it’s so much more since we’ve experienced so much within the last 365+ days. But it’s crazy to think that just a year ago this time we were packing bags and preparing to leave. We’ve really […]

Getting there…

June 17, 2015

Thousands upon thousands of hours is what it takes to learn a language. Time spent with people, time spent listening, time spent looking clueless, sounding funny, and saying the wrong thing, time spent practicing, time spent organizing recordings, time spent with friends, time spent with different classes of people, time spent with different generations of […]

Zina’ Jlamtes

May 26, 2015

Can you remember the first time that you held a Bible in your own heart language? My guess is that you probably don’t remember all that clearly. Or if you do remember, it’s not all that important a memory to you. Let’s face it, it’s been hundreds of years now that we’ve had the Bible […]

Playing for relationship

February 11, 2015

The sweat poured from my face and my heart pounded in my chest as if it were a trapped wild pigeon in a cage. People cheered and dust particles flew up from the cement ground amidst the scuffle of quick feet and commotion. There I stood awkwardly feeling out of place in a context that […]