Update for the Second week of March 2016

March 6, 2016

Dear Praying Friends, We have been in a fog, literally! Our language consultant, George, was supposed to fly out Tuesday, but in order to call the helicopter we need to be able to see the ridges. For two days we watched the ridges appear and disappear in the mist. […]

Update for the First week of March 2016

February 28, 2016

Dear Praying Friends, The main event this past week has been having our language consultant, George Olson, and our friends, Geff and Grace Harada come to spend the week with us. Geff has worked with the Iwaak tribe to the south of us for many years, but this was […]

Update for the Fourth Week of February

February 22, 2016

Dear Praying Friends, Coffee anyone? Our Isnag neighbors are beginning to make this year’s rice fields and they are also busy harvesting and drying coffee. An impressive lizard made an appearance outside my office window last week. I ran out with the camera and took several shots before realizing that I didn’t have a memory […]

Update for the Third week of February 2016

February 14, 2016

Dear Praying Friends, This past week the village was much quieter than usual. Many people have gone to town to enjoy the fair-like activities that happen around fiesta time. The temperature has risen to a very comfortable 70° and the coffee trees near our house have blossomed. The warm […]

Update for the Second week of February 2016

February 9, 2016

Dear Praying Friends, We are still in rainy season here and some mornings the temperature here is below 70°. That doesn’t sound too bad to most of you, but for people here whose houses and wardrobes are suited to 90° it is freezing. But hot season is just around the corner and people are starting […]

Summer Hummer 2014

July 16, 2014

Last Summer (2013), the kids at Westwood Baptist Church’s Summer Hummer (VBS) donated funds to build a covered play area for the Isnag children in our village. By God’s grace, the project has been completed (see previous posts). This summer our family was able to attend Summer Hummer again and pass on a big “Thank […]

Project Dedication and School Opening

June 13, 2014

After Thomas’ graduation we traveled north to take part in our village school’s opening program and to celebrate the completion of the covered play area project. Pastor Bruce from Westwood Baptist Church came over to take part in the program and has been a blessing in many ways. Crystal and Ruth (not pictured here), staff […]

It is up!

May 14, 2014

The children who attended Westwood Baptist Church’s Summer Hummer Children’s program last summer worked hard to raise funds so that the Isnag children in our village could have a place to play and have PE on rainy days. In January, we had a plan, but were still looking at an empty lot behind the school. […]

Trip to visit the Kalinga

April 21, 2014

Johnny and Orpha Macad are fellow Northern Luzon Missionaries with New Tribes Mission. They have planted a church among the Kalinga tribe and are now working on a second church plant in a different province. The Macads asked me to speak at their Kalinga youth conference this year and I was glad to accept because […]

Three Weeks in the Village

February 17, 2014

We often talk about Bible teaching, discipleship, and translation, but missionaries also serve their communities by doing community development projects to show love to the people they have come to serve by helping them improve in some physical or economic way. Last summer the children attending Westwood Baptist Church’s “Summer Hummer” decided to generously donate […]