The Stone Has Been Rolled Away!

July 17, 2017

A few weeks ago I announced to the internet that my insides were being shredded into confetti by a psychotic mineral deposit that had lodged itself in my urinary tract, and I felt like I was on a slow conveyor belt towards my imminent death. I ended my somber news brief with a plea for […]

Stoned In The Jungle

June 24, 2017

I have recently had my eyes opened to an entirely new, and unpleasant, arena of life. It’s like I’ve been able to glimpse into another dimension, where the only occupant is pain. Pain like I didn’t know existed. Think I’m sounding dramatic? Ha, you have no idea! I’m sugar-coating this for you. I’ve just had […]

Home, Sweaty Home

June 22, 2017

We just arrived back into Iski-land the other day.* Our home-coming was celebrated with the discovery that our office’s charge controller had broken while we were away, so we won’t be having any power in the office until it gets fixed. We were also welcomed in by a heat-wave that seems to have taken it […]

How Many Missionaries Does it Take…?

May 12, 2017

Our team here among the Iski has been receiving an abundant amount of attention lately, because we have just finished up a fairly exciting season of our ministry: we just presented the Gospel to our village, in their heart language, for the first time. Lots of people we’ve never met have written very kind things […]

The Miracle of Life

May 3, 2017

I’m not normally an overly emotional person. Sure, I’ll share in your basic, standard emotive range: happy, sad, angry, hungry*, etc., but I’ve never really gone for the gushy, waterworks stuff. Crying, especially, isn’t something I’m really into. Getting so worked up that you uncontrollably start leaking bodily fluids just seems a little over-the-top, you […]

Ready the Delivery Room!

April 26, 2017

We’re gearing up for the birth of the Iski church here in our neck of the jungle! In less than a week, we will be presenting the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ to our village at large. It’s a pretty exciting time, I’ll tell you! We and our teammates are having daily conversations with […]

Too Much Missionary

April 10, 2017

Our neck of the jungle* routinely reaches around three bazillion degrees. I’d show you a picture of our thermometer to prove it, except that it has long since melted into a puddle and oozed off of our porch. Because of this eternal heatwave, I am usually a sweaty mess by breakfast-time, so I often go […]

Jungle to Jungle

March 27, 2017

Modernity is mind-boggling at times. At least, for me it is. Part of the issue is undoubtedly the fact that I’m a casual Luddite, who doesn’t put in the effort to stay up-to-date with the various technological breakthroughs going on around the world. Innovations, such as “the cloud,” “air-dropping,” and “4G,” are all shrouded in […]

Nothing but the Dead and the Dying

March 23, 2017

Our villagers have told us that they are good people. Yes, they sometimes beat their kids and their spouses, but besides little things like that, they are pretty decent folks. They say they are at least not as bad as other Iski people. In fact, our villagers left their homes among their clansmen and came […]

Forest Gump and the Gospel

March 1, 2017

I’m always a little wary of referencing or endorsing any Hollywood movies here on our ministry blog. If there are 5 Christians in a room, then there are usually upwards of 6 strong convictions present as to whether a certain film is appropriate to watch or not. I’ll delve into those dark waters briefly today […]