Rustic Travels

June 22, 2018

In the late 1950s, Sophie Muller, a blue-eyed, single woman with a background in journalism and art, traveled the rivers and jungles of Colombia, spending several days each month in each village. There were no planes, no hotels, no restaurants. Travel meant sitting on the rough wooden bench of a dugout canoe for days on […]

When the Rubber Meets the Road

April 3, 2018

We can talk about walking by faith, but it’s when the rubber meets that road that it becomes real. Missionaries Jhon and Danelvis Barrio know about faith becoming real. They tell a story from their early years ministering among the Tikuna people, a story that’s a testimony to the faithfulness of God. They were out […]

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 […]