Update June 2018

July 12, 2018

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, We give thanks to the Lord for the trip that Virgilio and Alberto made to visit the Guahibo missionaries. Thank you for your prayers! We count it a privilege to continue having a part in discipling these folks; they continue to be encouraged in their ministry despite the many […]

Come. Come, all of you.

June 25, 2018

A few days before our team left Las Moras, Andrea told me about something she had dreamed. Dreams are very important to the Nahuatl people, and they often find meaning, signs, or omens in what they see while they sleep. Andrea said that she and a handful of others were standing on an outcropping of […]

Baskets, Culture and Truth

March 10, 2018

Learn to categorize… Yes, we’ve all done it. In real life, in workbooks, with our own kids: what things are more alike than others? Is the Tupperware container more like the box or more like a large bowl? My family agreed that the Tupperware container is more like a box, because it has a lid […]

Unto us a child is born…

December 21, 2017

Merry Christmas! We have so much to be thankful for this year but the most amazing thing ever happened: Welcome Joshua Michael Daum He was born Decemeber 10th at 5:58 a.m. he weighed 6 pounds 7 ounces and was 19 and three quarter inches. Everyone has told us about how much our lives would […]

God’s faithfulness is manifested

November 14, 2017

Visiting teammates. In August, Alberto had the opportunity to visit the missionaries planting the church in the among the Tikuna in Colombia. The translation of the Scriptures is being finished by being finalized by a couple of missionaries from Wycliff, they live on the border with Peru. Our desire is for the Tikuna church in […]

Our Journey Has Begun

October 11, 2017

Actually, it began back in October of 2016. It has taken us this long to get things settled to a place where we can gather our thoughts and share them. Life has been a whirlwind. When we left Awana in late September 2016 (after 15 years), we didn’t know what God had for us. We […]

Desecrate the Sacred Pictures

June 1, 2017

Spirit pictures painted on sheets of bark “Take them,” Watofo said in January of 2006, his voice wheezing with the effort to speak. “Get them out of the house.” Fato’s brow furrowed. The Hewa shaman, Watofo, had gone in and out of consciousness with the fevers, but now he was making no sense. Fato, Waina […]

No Longer Afraid

June 1, 2017

I hiked to Emo’s hut on the banks of the Yif River on June 13, and when I arrived, Emo was very happy to show me his brand new house and the garden his family planted in the river valley. “Why did you leave your brother’s house on the ridge top to move here,” […]

¿What is the future of the Guahibo Church?

May 9, 2017

What is the future of the Guahibo Church? In the Vichada state region… The teaching is continuing in some of the Indian communities. We are thankful for the financial provision to print and send much material for teaching. Some believers want to participae in teaching others in their villages as well as accompanying their leaders when […]

“God knows what we really need”

May 8, 2017

Thank you for praying for us and for the Guahibo church. Your prayers have been answered! God was working and guiding every step of that time. “God knew what we needed” was the expression of several brothers and sisters in Christ, who manifested in various ways the joy of listening and learning about the Word […]