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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It has been incredibly exciting for us the last few months as we are getting to know the church planters and translators who work on the island where we are now serving! God is doing amazing things among several of the indigenous people groups here, including a Manobo village that heard the gospel for the first […]
We have been saying we need to write an update for several weeks now, and we finally had time and the words to say! First off, A HUGE thank you to everyone who helped with our moving expenses! By the time the final bills showed up, the Lord had provided enough to cover our entire […]