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Looking Forward to Sharing

June 19, 2012

As we prepare for our upcoming home assignment, we are excited for the opportuntity to share all that the Lord has done in and through our lives these past three years. We are especially excited to share the vision God has given us for coming alongside of our co-workers in times of difficulty. While this […]

An Unexpected Mother’s Day!

May 15, 2012

We praise God for His provision for the Agta VBS team. One portion of the team went in by boat (three hours by land and then nine hours on the open ocean) while the rest of the team were able to fly in (a much shorter trip by air). The original plan was for our […]

Team Ready for Agta VBS

April 29, 2012

Within our Global Partners Purpose Statement it says that we as a mission “exist to assist the ministry of the local church… coordinating of believers to evangelize unreached people groups.” With that said, as we have had opportunity to connect with the local church in the Philippines, we were excited when Family Christian Bible agreed […]

Coming Alongside the Agta

March 26, 2012

A couple of blogs back (To Much Death in the Village) I introduced you to our friends the Epps who are working with the Agta. By God’s grace and His perfect timing, just this past February I had the privilege of flying in for a first time visit with the Agta. Also visiting for the […]

Finding Refreshment from Afar

January 27, 2012

Our year kicked off with a trip south to connect with co-workers from around the field for a time of refreshment and fellowship. We were blessed as team from Jerome Prairie Bible Church in Grants Pass, Oregon came over to the Philippines to help facilitate this time. The majority of the team focused on teaching […]

Too Much Death in the Village

December 23, 2011

This past month our language consultants were visiting a couple of different tribal works in northern Luzon. During the last night of their visit to a small Agta village a two-year old child passed away from severe burns after he fell into a pot of boiling water. Unfortunately the child was not taken to the […]

Transitioning North

October 10, 2011

After two years of Culture & Language Study in Manila the Lord is giving us some direction as to our next ministry assignment. With the departure of our northern Luzon support center personal for a short home assignment we have been asked to fill in for them during their absence. At this point we are […]

Providing Support in Palawan

September 22, 2011

As we draw closer to completing our time in National Culture and Language Acquisition in Manila, we find ourselves praying more and more about what the Lord has in store for us next. While we have worked towards the possibility of moving into a tribal church planting team we have also said that we would […]

A Helping Hand for the Ga’dang

August 6, 2011

Recently I had the privilege of participating in a two-week water project for the Ga’dang people, a remote people group in the Philippines. Along with 12 members of a short-term missionary team from the UK, one other missionary from Manila, Erik Peterson, and the missionaries who live in this village, Chuck & Shannon Talbot (their […]

Building a Vision for the Ga-dang

June 24, 2011

Our recent visit with the Ga-dang in the Philippines was a wonderful opportunity to see what God is doing among these wonderful people. As we consider the very needy world we live in and the incredible amount of work yet to be done, it is my hope that this video will build a vision in […]