An update in pictures!!

March 8, 2018

Click on the link below to see our newest update, brought to you in pictures!! Thanks so much for your prayers, encouragement, and support for our family!! We are humbled at God’s faithfulness in providing, healing, leading, and giving strength we need each day! To Him be the glory!! http://mailchi.mp/81beef321a70/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words Love and thanks, Shad, […]

Shad’s Appointment Update

January 11, 2018

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Hello to our praying friends!! We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas celebrating our Savior’s birth! Our Christmas break was FULL of fun, family, friends, food, and fellowship 🙂 My (Sarah’s) family came here to Missouri to spend several days together, and within hours of their departure, […]

November DEALings…

November 21, 2017

Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Yes, ’tis the season. The season to reflect on giving thanks for all we’ve been given, and to prepare our hearts and our lives for the holiday season! Looking back at this year in our lives, many images come to mind. Our move to Missouri in early January, marking the official beginning […]

Surgeries DONE!!

October 7, 2017

The best updates, I’ve often felt, are written after the battle. When the fires have died down, when perspective is clearer and the threat has backed down. When discouragement and frustration are spoken of in the past tense, and when the sunrise of victory can be seen in the morning sky. And, alas, I have […]

An honest word from Shad…

September 15, 2017

Hello again from the Deals! This past month has brought with it lots of new routines for our family, including Fall Semester of classes here at the Missionary Training Center and the first weeks of Dogwood Elementary for Brice and Oak Ridge Intermediate for Braden. With new routines have come new friendships, and we praise […]

One more test then surgery…

July 20, 2017

Hello to all!! Thank you so much for your continued prayers as we prepare for Shad’s surgery. In our last update we shared that Shad has been given the green light for brain surgery, specifically left temporal lobe resection. He has had several more tests done since then, and his team of neurologists continue to […]

Green light for surgery…

June 1, 2017

Our last update was about waiting, and the frustration we have felt in the unrelenting questions and uncertainties regarding Shad’s continuing seizures. In the waiting, we have indeed questioned God. Questioned why He has allowed epilepsy– uncontrolled and complex epilepsy at that– to enter our world and set up camp in our daily lives. Questioned […]

More Waiting…

April 24, 2017

“Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.” ― Elisabeth Elliot Ah, yes. Waiting. Elisabeth Elliot said it well, having seen some of her deepest fears come to reality during her time on this […]

Goodbye Tour

March 30, 2017

Twenty four days. Three full days of travel. Three nights in the Capital City to recover from/prepare for International flights. Three nights on the beach spending quality family time together in the wake of serious grieving. That left us just fifteen days in our former home in the center of a large island that has […]

Drawing us Near…

February 9, 2017

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4 When someone says the word “trial,” what image comes to mind? How about the word “sorrow” or “grief” or “tears”? I, for one, conjure up in my mind a battle. A fierce fight with men falling to the right and left of me. […]