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I’ll skip my usual format for this update today, and just write. Sometimes that’s easier. Our warm-up stage is finished, and on Monday, we start Stage 1 of our language learning. We’re excited and a little apprehensive. It’ll be a lot of work. Another one of the most important parts of our time here is building […]

It’s Thanksgiving today, and we’ve been in Asia-Pacific for 11 days now. We had a Thanksgiving dinner last Saturday with the other NTMers here. It’s been hard to think of it as Thanksgiving with this warm, humid weather, but we’re still definitely very thankful to God for guiding us here and for all of you […]

It has been a while since our last update, so I thought it might be time to write a short update. It seems like not much has happened, but actually, we are a lot closer to leaving. Our support is now at 97%. I don’t remember if we were at that percentage when I last […]

Last time I wrote an update, we were at 75% of our support, and we were getting a little worried about whether we would be able to get all our paperwork sent overseas in time.    But God has been answering our prayers. Our support is up to 93% (honestly, we never thought we’d make […]

A lot has been happening lately, and I’m not going to explain it all right now, but we want to let you know what’s going on this week. We have finally passed the 75% mark, which is a huge answer to prayer. We have been given the green from both NTM USA and NTM leadership […]

As we travel across the Northwest raising our support, we’ve been to 15 or 20 churches. We are very grateful to God and to the people He has used in this process. Sometimes I wonder why people are willing to do so much for us without even knowing us. But it’s all part of God’s […]

I’ve been reading Jeremiah lately. It’s a long, depressing book, in a way. But it’s an example of someone obeying God regardless of what people thought of him.   And recently I read something that sounded a lot like the people we will be working with. Jer. 16:19 says, “O Lord, my strength and my […]

It’s been nice to have some warmer weather lately. Spring is always exciting. We’ve also gotten a little bit more support in the last couple weeks, which puts us at 56%. It’s very encouraging to see things happening. This weekend, we travelled down to Starbuck and spoke at a church in Dayton. We enjoyed our […]