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 […]

Counting the Cost

September 15, 2016

by Pete Hypki Andrew is one of the good guys. At least, out here, he is. Andrew is our neighbor to the south, and a father of 11 kids. He’s short, like most of the men out here, maybe 5’5,” and stout, with a thin graying moustache. Two weeks after we moved into the […]

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 […]

A Printed Talisman

February 24, 2015

In some parts of the world people have the Word of God, but lack one important skill necessary to understanding it: the ability to read. It’s hard for those of us from cultures where reading is a given to imagine this, but it’s true. Imagine all the work it takes to translate the Bible. Think […]

A Village Funeral

April 18, 2014

What starts with the rosary and ends with a knife fight? In Las Moras, the answer is a village funeral. This last week as our team was at the cemetery, where the village was mourning the loss of and elderly woman. The deceased’s son asked me if I knew how to pray the rosary. I […]

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 […]

Sign of the Cross

November 26, 2013

We went to a funeral yesterday. People gathered in the cemetery to mourn for a teenage boy who was crushed by a car. People from three villages brought flowers from their yards and made the sign of the cross with dirt, with holy water, and with their hands. The sign of the cross without the […]

To Wake the People Up…

November 6, 2013

Last night we studied again with Agustina. We were reading many of the parables that Jesus used to teach the people. After reading about the lamp on a stand and talking about the nature of light, I said: “Jesus was also called the light of the world. Why is he a light?” “He came to […]

Time to Call for Back-Up

February 28, 2013

The Power of Prayer Our team has been reminded in the last few months of the importance of prayer. We need guidance. We need to be grateful. We need to remember our dependence on the Father. And we need to be in ceaseless communication in all of these things. John Piper once said that many […]