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We would like to take this opportunity to finally introduce you to our new partners, Darryl and Becky, Stephen’s parents.   They moved into our village this past March and are settled into being grandparents and partners in the ministry. As grandparents, they enjoy spending time with our kids, playing ping-pong and going on bike […]

This week we are after signatures.  We need signatures from our Filipino mission board on all of the permits and building plans for us to apply for a building permit for the new church building.  In order to obtain these signatures, we sent all the paperwork to another island to be signed.  We have heard […]

Nine days ago, we took our vehicle into the shop.  Our hope was that just changing the transmission filter would solve the problems we were experiencing with the vehicle, and we would be able to get our vehicle within a few days.  On the fourth day, we received a text to come to the auto […]

We came to the capital city earlier this week to accomplish several goals, including shopping for supplies for home and ministry, visiting the dentist, and putting our car into the shop.  The first news of the week was that the parts that had been ordered to repair the car had not arrived.  We proceeded with […]

In just a few days, on October 14, a new evangelistic Bible study will kick-off in the village.  We offered our house as the location of the Bible study, but we left it up to the believers concerning who they would invite to this Bible study.  With great excitement, they have invited 20 families.  Many […]

When you visit a new church, you might look around and ask yourself, “Who is the Preacher here?” You might look for the man wearing a tie or someone sitting up on the platform with a Bible in his lap. This past Sunday, after arriving to the church in the village, one of our kids […]

After 12 days in the village, Stephen and the men were able to complete 95% of the projects on our house.  The first three days were rain free and the men worked on the “surprise”, tearing down and rebuilding the condemned playhouse for the kids.  It had been condemned due to termites, weather damage, and […]

Recently someone from the States said to us, “I’m tired of funerals”.  That is exactly how we feel.  On July 5th, Nicodem Elis died at the age of 16.  Who is Nicodem?  Well, we can’t tell you much about him.  He lived on the other side of the village and we only saw him one […]

Last week, Edmund, one of our church leaders, passed away.  The physical battle at the end of his life was hard as his body gave into the cancer.  However, the spiritual battle that followed for his wife Imelda and his daughter Estella (the only believers in his family) has been fierce.  All the other family […]

This morning we received the news that Edmund, one of our church leaders, has passed away.  Cancer won over his body but not his soul.  We rest in the comfort that Edmund loved Jesus Christ and believed in Him as his Savior. To us, Edmund was a friend, a brother in the Lord, and a […]