Ready for the Rains!

June 4, 2019

The final week of house construction was – in a word – grueling. For Don and I, it was the ‘leave everything on the field’ moment… a final push to wrap up three months of hard work, long days, cot-and-tent sleeping, missing family, unbelievable logistics, and a relentless deadline imposed by the coming rainy season. […]

Concrete Progress

April 12, 2019

What a crazy few weeks it has been! Writing from back in El Paso, my first multi-week period apart from Amy and the kids behind me, I can hardly believe how much has been accomplished since leaving them here in late February! The extended time apart was every bit as challenging as we expected – […]

Sun Mar 17, 2019

March 17, 2019

With two weeks of construction behind us, things look really good out here in Las Moras. The walls are basically done – on Monday morning, we’ll place the final lintel… and expect the final four rows of adobes on the west wall to be in place by midday. Next week, the adobe foremen will continue […]

Sun Mar 10, 2019

March 10, 2019

One week down, and a whole lot of progress has been made. The Nahuatl master builders are fantastic, and have impressed Don with their craftsmanship. The walls are just over 60% of the height needed for this stage of the build. Being so far ahead of the game, we’re starting to plan other tasks for […]

Here We Go!

February 26, 2019

Hey all – Jordan here. This thing is really happening, so buckle up! On Sunday, I headed down from El Paso to Chihuahua. Saying goodbye to Amy and the kids for nearly seven weeks was hard for us all… and after a week together at that future point, we’ll do it again for another four. […]

His Sufficiency in All Things

January 21, 2019

A couple days before Christmas, I joined a few local church friends in traveling to El Paso’s ‘other half’ – Cuidad Juárez, our sister city in México. Believers at Beth El Bible Church had donated food, toys, and clothing for the past several weeks – all to make Christmas parties possible for children in some […]

The End of an Era

February 16, 2018

We have some pretty exciting news to share! As January gave way to February, it seemed clear I’d taken large strides since my previous language evaluation. Our consultants scheduled an assessment of my Spanish speaking abilities… and I passed! The same day I was evaluated, we learned I had graduated “with flying colors” from our […]

(Don’t) Think Before You Speak

January 21, 2018

Have you ever been told to “think before you speak?” Just hearing this phrase can easily bring back memories of embarrassing reasons for which we’ve heard it before! This oft-repeated idiom, so foundational that we consider it common sense, echoes recurring themes in Biblical teaching – such as Solomon’s counsel in Ecclesiastes 5:2 (NKJV) “[to] […]

We Have A Truck!

November 5, 2017

We have been praying for over a year, expecting God would provide the right truck… and now it’s here! After a dealer who had been helping us found the truck, we waited until he said it was ready to be picked up. Jordan got the call while we were in El Paso, ready to return […]

A Man’s Heart Plans … but the Lord Directs

August 30, 2017

Before my language evaluation in late June, Amy and I prayed together several times regarding the results. We had a lot of questions about the new testing standard I was pioneering for NTM Mexico, and I felt a lot of pressure to test out and be done! With Amy’s formal studies completed, my own goal […]