Why is Christmas important?
The real story that we celebrate at Christmas time requires the whole Bible to tell. It’s the story that we’ve spent most of our life being a part of helping others tell… I’d love to write that it’s a short, simple, everybody’s-happy at the end kind of read. It isn’t. But you should still read […]
Mathew Meanderings – June 2024
Do you remember that scene in the Princess Bride where Fezzik and Inigo are trying to bring the, currently living but very recently “mostly dead” Wesley up to speed on Buttercup’s whereabouts? Inigo realizes very quickly that to catch Wesley up, will take time that they don’t have, before Buttercup is forced to marry the […]
A Christmas Thought- or that time I tried writing a poem…
December is upon us, it’s almost come to pass, the season of the year that in our minds should last, and last. That Christ has come is all year true, His ageless gift for me and for you. God’s love displayed in smallest form, come to earth again in stable warm. The spotless lamb, the […]
About Us
This is where I tell you who we are, what we do, and how God “called us to our ministry.” Or something like that…
Who we are, and how we got here:
We are an average, ordinary family of God’s Word-studying, Jesus-loving, Spirit-led, people. We’re just like you. I graduated from a small town, high school in Michigan, “not wanting to be involved in ministry.” Tamara grew up wanting to be a missionary, wife, and mother.
As I spent time “in the real ...