Author: Josh and Candy Dalton

2017 _ Year in Review

2017 _ Year in Review

January Back to the Drawing Board After 10 months of negotiations, construction clearance applications, meetings, and more paperwork, and despite a favorable vote from the public, our request for permission to build a helipad on the land we had found was ultimately denied. While January and early February was a discouraging time, the Lord deepened […]
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When It Doesn’t FEEL Like Christmas

When It Doesn’t FEEL Like Christmas

Over the past few weeks, as we have been getting ready for Christmas, several times I have thought and my kids have said, “It doesn’t feel like Christmas.” And it got me thinking- what is it that makes it FEEL like Christmas? I asked my kids this and we all talked about it and this […]
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Street Dancing

Street Dancing

A few weeks ago, our town celebrated Kaamulan, an annual fiesta commemorating the alliance of the seven major tribal groups represented in our region. The highlight of the six-week long fiesta is a day of street dancing in which different teams compete by recounting historical legends in dance and song. It was fascinating to hear […]
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2016 – A grateful look back

2016 – A grateful look back

January Home to the Philippines  After almost 8 months in Arizona refurbishing a helicopter and getting trained as a commercial helicopter pilot, 2016 kicked off for us with a homecoming back to the Philippines. After a couple of weeks in Manila renewing our visas, we traveled straight to Mindanao, the island that would become our new […]
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Good Gifts and Juggling Knives

Good Gifts and Juggling Knives

September, 2014. A tiny, isolated village on Southern Palawan. A young single father torn by love, cultural pressures of shame and responsibility, and a desire to do what was best for his young son. Church planters who had opened their hearts to this little boy, and with his father’s blessing begun the tedious, years-long process of […]
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Of Course He Isn’t Safe

Of Course He Isn’t Safe

As a missionary, we get asked some weird questions, especially while on furlough. And we get asked a lot of the same questions. Common ones include- “So, don’t you just love it there?” Is it like being on vacation all the time?” (ha!) “How many people have you led to Christ?” And probably one of […]
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When Your Kids Are Grieving

When Your Kids Are Grieving

Over the past couple of weeks, we have experienced something new with our kids. Grief. Not just crying over someone they missed but deep grieving over the losses they have experienced in their few short years of living in this fallen world. I was totally unprepared and have felt utterly helpless. Two weeks ago, we […]
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It’s Here!

It’s Here!

Almost exactly a month ago, we submitted our application for registration, and we fully expected It to be released a week ago, so Brian and I drove to the city last week and spent three days prepping the helicopter for it’s test flight, and packing all of our tools and support equipment and shipping it […]
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Down to the wire

Down to the wire

The clock is ticking and we’re running out of time on paperwork. One year ago today, we began disassembling and overhauling this helicopter, preparing it for service in the Philippines. It is exciting and humbling to see what the Lord has done in only one year! Now though, we are down to the wire. There […]
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All Dressed up, and no place to go…

All Dressed up, and no place to go…

At 6:00 Monday morning, we rolled out of our gate along with our co-workers to head for the city. Both vehicles were packed with tools, parts and equipment, as well as everything our families needed to continue homeschooling and functioning for the next couple of weeks. Our helicopter had arrived! We were told that it […]
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