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 […]

And so I said nothing…

November 11, 2014

Hi, my name is Jared Haynes and I’m a missionary to Paraguay, South America. One week ago, I had an opportunity to share the gospel with someone. But I didn’t. In fact, I said very little of anything. You want to know why, don’t you? It’s eating you up inside, I can tell! Perhaps you’re […]

“You’re family now…”

September 8, 2014

It was another late night on the road with our host family. We had just finished playing volleyball at our church and eating a great big “Asado” (BBQ) with some of our friends. It felt like it was somewhere between 12:30 or 1:00 A.M. but the time was not important. I had purposely taken off […]

Reborn

March 4, 2013

“That’s impossible!” the tribal elder shouted. “If he wants to learn our language, and learn our ways, he would need to be reborn as one of us!” These are statements, I was told, came from a tribal man who met with missionaries about the possibility of a missionary team moving in to learn their language […]

Every day Life? Or Death?

January 20, 2012

The smell of diesel and the sound of breaks fill the air as I approach the stop sign to work in my home town. A typical North Eastern summer morning with a warm breeze blowing through my car window. As I enter the work place and punch in, I begin to realize how habitual the cycle of life […]