Learning a Tonal Language is Tough

July 16, 2022

What makes a tonal language so challenging? The Turu people we live and serve among, speak a language that is tonal. In English, intonation may be added to affect meaning. Consider the following two sentences: “Are we leaving now?” ending in a rising tone, would mark a question. But the sentence, “Are we leaving now?” […]

A message of thankfulness

June 25, 2022

We live with the Turu people, translating and teaching the word of God. We are able to do this due to the faithfulness of our ministry partners. These partners are those of you who regularly pray for, give financially, and encourage us as we serve. A friend of ours asked if he could send a […]

Staying on Mission

May 17, 2022

We can’t afford to lose sight of what is important. There are so many things in world that can distract us from staying on mission. None of us can afford to loose sight of what God is doing and how he wants to use us. For our Turu friends, they don’t have God’s Word in […]

Snapshots of our Home

January 23, 2019

Jungle living is not for the faint of heart. Sometimes the most profound thing we accomplish in a day is washing the dishes. However, our jungle house truly has become our home. We plan to start posting pics of our home here to give you a glimpse of what it takes to do more than […]

Travel Time

November 9, 2018

Over the course of the next few months we will be traveling around the Northwest to visit with friends, supporters, churches, & family. We are blessed to be able to be ministry partners with some pretty incredible people. We are always encouraged by opportunities like this to reconnect with so many. There are some exciting […]

Fall in the Northwest

September 28, 2018

We are currently back in Washington State for our regular home assignment. During this time home we are continuing to work on ministry but also further our training, reconnect with family & friends, as well as take care of medical needs. Some highlights so far: 1-Ryan successfully underwent ACL surgery 2-Am taking a Greek Grammar […]

Home Assignment 2016

March 8, 2016

We are currently back in the NorthWest and planning to head back to Asia-pacific in the very near future. We are so blessed to have been able to be home over the holidays and to be with so many people that are very dear to us. This home-assignment time has taken us around the state […]

June 20, 2013

Asia-Pacific Adventures

June 13, 2013

We are home from Asia-Pacific for a few more months. Since being home we have been blessed & encouraged to be with so many of you. Our goals have been simple: Rest, Recover, Reconnect, Recast vision, Return We are so grateful that the recovery part of our journey is coming to a close. We are even […]

Friends make life so sweet

September 7, 2009

We’ve been praying all along that God would quickly provide friends for us here. He is a faithful God and we are so grateful for that. We have been in country for 2 months now and already God has granted us some amazing relationships. Being here alone and away from home is not easy. But, […]