Under Hurricane Warning!

October 5, 2016

Hurricane Matthew has set its sights on Florida. And tomorrow he arrives. (Or so we’re told!) I can’t say I’m excited at his coming, but at least I’m as prepared as I can be. It’s kind of in my nature. I’ve stocked up on supplies such as water, food, batteries and a hand-crank emergency radio […]

A Salty Rodent and the Outhouse

July 7, 2016

Some stories are meant to be told. This one of them. It’s an old one, but as Luis and Elizabeth Trujillo told me we were laughing like it happened yesterday. But let’s get into the story. It was back during their year living close to the Nukaks. They had a shared outhouse, and one of their […]

Colombia and Beyond

June 16, 2016

A Desperate Need As I shared in my last update, a young Nukak man died the day we arrived in the village there in Colombia. It brought to the forefront the sobering reality of the fragility of life and how desperately the Nukak people need the hope of the gospel. Pray for the missionaries to […]

Some Things Are Just Hard

May 23, 2016

A Life Saved On my recent trip to Colombia, on the day I arrived in the village, a young Nukak man died. But there was a lot more behind that story. Jack Foster, a missionary working with the Nukak people wrote more about it. The story began back in the 1990s. Derrek* was two […]

A Trip to Colombia

March 23, 2016

A Poisoned Dart It was back in the early ’70s. The initial contact with the Nukak didn’t go as planned. Though Danny Germann was pleased at the seemingly smooth exchange of gifts — the accompanying poisoned dart in his neck wasn’t quite so pleasing. It took time to earn the trust of this remote tribal […]

Celebrating Christmas Along with Us

December 15, 2015

The Greatest Gift of All Christmas is just around the corner. The time of year when we give gifts in remembrance and honor of the greatest gift of all — the gift of salvation that came through God sending His only Son. They didn’t know Him. Last year the Tangguat people of Papua New Guinea […]

It’s All About People

December 8, 2015

Winter in Florida. It means the heat actually kicks on in the house. It means I get to pull out the hoodies and sweaters. It means one of my neighbors acts like I should have a jacket on when taking a walk in the evening. I refrain from explaining that it’s really not that cold outside. […]

No More Stooped Shoulders

August 26, 2015

Depressed or Encouraged? Can a quote be both depressing and encouraging all at once? I think so. At least I read one like that a few weeks back. It was from Tim and Tiffany Lanier. They’ve been working alongside Inapang believers in a cross-cultural evangelistic outreach to a neighboring Tangguat village. And the quote went […]

Evacuated!

July 8, 2015

In my last update, I shared my concern for the evacuation of innocent Hewa women and children who were marked as witches. After the brutal murder of Mifila, the remaining women and children under death threats were more than willing to leave all they knew. One family had already been evacuated when I wrote, but another […]

Falsely Accused

July 6, 2015

It’s hard to wrap my mind around the fact that in our day and age someone could be accused of witchcraft — and condemned without a shred of evidence. Yet here I sit, my heart burdened for a family on the other side of the world, for a family I don’t even know. My heart breaks for the brother who thought he could protect his sister — and realized too late […]