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> Our route to Wisconsin We plan to take 6 days to drive the 2,204 miles to Wisconsin.  The average drive time is 6-7 hours per day. With stops we’ll be on the road about 8-9 hours a day.   Hesperia CA, to Flagstaff AZ (December 28) 392 mi – 6 hours 12 mins Flagstaff […]

> (Our tree 6 days before Christmas) My first tendency is to say, “it’s not the same!” As I look around my home, I see an empty living room, usually warm and cozy with lights, a tree, stockings hung by the fire and a winter Christmas village on my mantel. Our tree (the one thing […]

> The following is an e-mail written to the staff of our home church.  Specifics have been generalized to protect the privacy of others.  Dear Staff, Hope you are all doing well.  We sure miss you all already.  We’ll be leaving the desert in 3 days, and leaving the state in 11 days. We’ve had […]

>I have to admit that it was a little scary and surreal voluntarily resigning from a job I love during an economic meltdown.  My last day was November 30.  I never would have done that if I didn’t believe that God wanted us to move in this direction.  It took a great deal of letting […]

>There’s a part of me that loves my comfort zone.  Any comfort zone.  I like to know what I’m doing, how I’m going to do it, where the ability and resources are going to come from.  I like to know what’s expected of me, what I can expect from others, and what consequences will surface […]

>Check it!!! A new apartment (dorm room) with a sink just became available!!! Kristi and I realized how blessed we are to have 3 sinks and 2 bathrooms in our current home when we first heard the news that our apartment we were supposed to move into at NTBI had neither.  I wondered about the […]

> Mike here.  This is Kristi with some of our mugs and dishes we aren’t keeping.  We’ve been throwing numbers around our heads trying to guess how much we’ll have to downsize.  I finally figured it out today.  Counting the garage, we have a total of 2,170 sqft of living/storage space in our house right now. […]

> Kristi~Join me as we take a short tour through our prospective apartment at NTBI! Our apartment is kind of like a shoebox… there is no hall, just doorways through rooms that lead to other rooms. It goes like this, the living room leads to our room, our room leads to the kid’s room, and […]

> Kristi and I got about 3 hours sleep before waking up at 4:00am and getting on the road for our drive to LAX. Our flight was fine, though not too exciting, but that’s just because I’m apparently unimpressed by the miracle of human flight. A comedian I like says that every time we are […]

> How are we doing globally on the great commission? A research initiative called www.joshuaproject.net is seeking to bring definition to the unfinished task of the Great Commission. Their research shows that globally there are 6,631 people groups considered least-reached. The term “least-reached” is defined by things like how much of the Bible has been […]