A Good Beginning

April 21, 2018

Last Sunday we met with the new Nahuatl believers to study the Word of God. Stop and let that sink in. That could be the end of my blog and it would still be a pretty good entry. For those of you who have been praying with our team since the beginning, I know you […]

Now is the Chance

January 30, 2018

Queen is worried about the people in her village. We were sitting on short stumps in her warm kitchen, checking the lesson about Nicodemus. She was telling the story back by paragraphs, tracking well with what Jesus had said about being born again. A little later in that story, Jesus makes the point that the […]

Tony

October 2, 2017

Tony is an old man. By U.S. standards he’s getting up there and by Nahuatl standards he’s ancient. We went to visit him a few weeks ago and he began to reminisce about life. He is by far the oldest individual in this community and asked us if we knew why some people last longer […]

A Time to Reflect

April 22, 2016

Trying to recover from typhoid has given me more free time than I know what to do with. Doctors suggest that rest and “stress free” living are keys to recovery, so I’m in the city doing, well, nothing much. And doing nothing has given me plenty of time to think. Mostly, my thoughts have focused […]

Letters

March 26, 2015

A few days ago, I sat down and wrote some letters to my Nahuatl friends in the village. No one on our team has been in touch with them for about six months, and we were thrilled when our coworker told us a missionary pilot was going to take him for a quick visit to […]

Praying throug the Rainy Season

June 3, 2014

The internet has been causing our team a great deal of grief, lately. For almost two months it hasn’t worked at all, and we are uncertain if it will be working at all during rainy season. I know many of you use our team’s updates as a way of praying for us, and we are honored, […]

Good News, Great Joy

January 22, 2014

When I was a little girl my dad would often comment on the line in the Christmas story that says, “Behold I bring you good news of great joy which shall be for all people.” Essentially the angels were announcing what missionaries would continue to proclaim thousands of years later. There is good news. When the […]

Who Except God…

May 11, 2013

Agustina is a young, single-mother with three children. She is intelligent, witty, and works hard to give her children good things. Although she speaks Nahuatl, her first language is Spanish. She expressed interest in hearing what the Bible had to say and we have begun to teach her. Twice a week she comes at night […]

The Well

March 31, 2013

Those Who Will Make a Hole For months now we have been talking to the Nahuatl about “yehwanti del takoyonaski” or “those who will make a hole.” On the 18th two workers from Living Water arrived in our village with a huge well-drilling rig in the back of their truck. We praised God for their […]

Death to the Joint Mouse

March 11, 2013

A few years ago I found out I had a joint mouse. That might sound made-up, but it’s what they call a little piece of broken stuff that’s floating around in one of the body’s joints…in my case, my knee. On March 2nd I went to Samachique, a small village in the mountains of northern Mexico. […]