Tag: New Tribes Mission

Bedtime. I lay down next to Judah to cuddle. “Mama,” he said,”kann ich dir ein Lied singen?” Can I sing you a song? His sweet little voice reached my ear: “Maaaaaama, ich liiiiiiebe dich so sehr; Maaaaaaaama, du bist eine schoene Prinzessin; Maaaaaaaama, du bist die Beste…” Mama, I love you. Mama, you’re a beautiful […]

My 30th birthday will be quite special. I will have it twice. Let me explain that. I will board an airplane in Tanzania on the morning of my birthday in January. I will spend lots of hours on airplanes and in airports. And thanks to the time zones, I will land back in Spokane the […]

  “Mama, warum bist du traurig?” “Alles in Ordnung, Judah, Mami will nur keine Hausaufgaben machen.” “Warum?” “Weil es so schwer ist” “Aber Mama, wenn etwas schwer ist, muss man es TROTZDEM machen! Gott kann dir helfen!”   “Mama, why are you sad?” “It’s ok, Judah, Mami just doesn’t want to do homework right now.” […]

One of my past favorite actors wrote an article about his philosophy on life. He described life as a big feast with many participants. He went on to say that to be a winner, you grab as much of the food off the table as you can and leave the scraps for everyone else. After […]

One of the boys’ favorite books is “Wild About You,” a sweet story about a tree kangaroo and a panda bear couple who each adopt a baby animal from a different species to raise them as their own. The last lines of the book read, “Every kid needs a family, we know that it’s true. […]

Dear Diary, Just another day in Oklahoma. Since we’ve come here, we have not had any proper bath, although we play in the dirt and eat messy things all the time. I guess Mami and Daddy are too lazy to fill up our “bathtub” (= plastic bin) with warm water, so all they do is […]

  The stats: 8 weeks. 4 people. 1 room. 20 beds. 0 windows. Welcome home! This past Friday, we drove to Cookson, Oklahoma, with a car-load full of kids and baggage and only a vague idea of what lay ahead to start our 2-month linguistic practicum studying the Cherokee language. We spent the first evening […]

  Got questions?!? Over the course of our summer travels, there were some questions we were asked quite often. So if you’re one of the people who wanted to ask those questions but never got around to it, or have questions about the missionary life but don’t even know where to start asking… this post […]

        Judah + his Papa. These pictures don’t need any words :). Happy Friday!