Category: Family

Apartment in Manaus

Apartment in Manaus

  A lot of you were praying for us to find a place to rent quickly, and we did!  We are already moved in and we are convinced that this place is a perfect provision from God to us.  Our upstairs apartment came furnished with a stove, fridge, washing machine, two beds, tables, chairs, couches, […]
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Trip to PQQ

Trip to PQQ

We were invited to come out to PQQ, the school were Jevon grew up about 20 miles from Manaus as the crow flies, but a whole different world.  Manaus is a cement jungle.  PQQ is surrounded by green jungle on three sides and the sprawling Amazon river in front of it.  It was fun to […]
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Almost There

Almost There

  We have FOUR days left and then we leave for Brazil!  While we are scrambling to stay on top of an ever-growing list of details that have to be taken care of and goodbyes that need to be said, our hearts are full of thanks to the God who has brought us this far! […]
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Wait, we ARE still in Kansas

Wait, we ARE still in Kansas

Last night as we were pulling out a couch into a bed for the girls to sleep on, we scared up three spiders. “That’s brown recluse,” Jevon’s brother said.  So I killed one with my flip flop, and he killed one with his knife, but the third one retreated back into the dark safety of […]
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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

“You knit me together in my mother’s womb…I will praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made…” Thank you SOOO much, God, for each moment you arranged for me to be with my brother Phil and his wife Julie and my little nieces last week!  Thank you for the freedom to be human and […]
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Who knew?

Who knew?

“Goodbye Danica, missionary-to-be” “Bye.” That short, matter-of-fact farewell happened nine years ago in Portland.  I said goodbye to my youth pastor, who was also one of my best friend’s dad and had been my senior pastor for a short time.  He was moving his family east to Pennsylvania, and I was leaving Oregon for Bible […]
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God Expedites

God Expedites

When we applied for our US passports, we did not realize that Danica needed to have her passport in hand before we could apply for Danica’s Brazilian visa.  If we had known that, we would have payed the extra fee to expedite the process.  But we didn’t know. Yesterday, only a couple of weeks after […]
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Saying Goodbye, Looking Ahead

Saying Goodbye, Looking Ahead

“Mom?” Cali asked for the hundredth time. “Is it spring?” We had told Cali that we would stay in Oregon until spring. So she knew, as the days grew warmer, that it was time to say goodbye to the Louks, and Meadowbrook, and the Molalla River, the temperate rainforests and waterfalls of Western Oregon, and […]
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Skit Clips and More

Skit Clips and More

Here’s the latest news of the Rich family in… Partnership Development What a joy to join hands in partnership with people who believe that God wants them to be a part of tribal missions in Brazil through their prayers and financial support of our ministry!  We now have 47% of the recommended support for our […]
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