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 […]

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

February 16, 2017

Our teammates started teaching the first-ever Bible lessons in the Iski language last week! Being as we are still in the “language-learning” phase of our ministry, however, we are not really able to directly contribute to their teaching efforts a whole lot. What we lack in useful ability though, we try to make up for […]

History in the Making

January 27, 2017

As many of you know, our village was constructed a few years ago for the sole purpose of hearing God’s Talk. Every man, woman, and child here has moved a day’s journey into the jungle, leaving behind their access to government schooling, a medical clinic, and easier access to trade goods. They have worked hard […]

Pestilence and Pottery (and a bug)

January 19, 2017

I’ll be honest, I’m a little tubel* concerning what I should be writing about right now. You see, this last weekend I was sick, which always spurs my creative muse into action.** I also created my very first piece of pottery, which (though it is small, irregularly shaped, and ugly in color) I feel demands […]