What’s Jackie up to?? ….Debugging the what??

January 4, 2016

What Does Software have to do with tribal missions? Let me tell you a little bit about what I have been doing and maybe that will answer the question for you. I, Jackie, enjoy having a long-term project to work on.

Discipleship is Like A Banana Plant (Not Discipleship is Bananas!)

January 4, 2016

As Christians, we should strive to leave a legacy more like a banana plant, than a banyan tree, and the way that we do that is through discipleship.

Made it Home

January 3, 2016

We’ve been home for a couple weeks now. Our flights went well and we were glad to arrive home. We got here in time to see Alisha’s dad, and he actually improved some after we got home. We were able visit with him quite a bit before he started going downhill again; but the last […]

Cody & Beka Update

January 3, 2016

We have enjoyed so much having Cody and Beka here with us during the holidays. They have stayed this first part of their 4 week break with us and later this week will move over to Beka’s parent’s home to spend time with them for the rest of their time here.

What IS discourse analysis?

January 2, 2016

A week before Christmas I took part in some discourse analysis training in Florida. But what exactly is discourse analysis? It’s kind of a hard thing to explain, since it talks about subconscious things that we do when we use language, so we don’t realize that we’re doing them. However, if someone doesn’t follow these […]

Swimming in the Dead Sea? Almost check.

January 2, 2016

Floating in the Dead Sea, where you can float without even trying, is amazing!! Ok, so I’ve never done it, but the last weekend of November I got to float in Pink Lake, a really salty lake in Senegal (and if you look at the picture below, you’ll see that from some angles it really […]

Student Ministry in December

January 2, 2016

Second quarter, the middle school students made hygiene packs as gifts to give out to people during their ministry outreach in December. (These are “shoe boxes” filled with soap, food, etc.) They had a contest between the four barkadas/groups to see who could bring the most. We collected over 1000 hygiene packs! Grade 6 ministered […]

Our Favorite Children’s Bibles

January 1, 2016

I remember one of our teachers in training saying that America is “the land of options.” How true is that?!? Just go down the cereal aisle in the grocery store to find confirmation. Having lots of options can be a good thing. Or a confusing thing. Or an overwhelming thing. Or a I-just-wasted-2-hours-reading-reviews-on-Amazon-and-I-still-haven’t-decided-thing. Children’s Bibles […]

January 1, 2016

Merry Christmas from Roach, MO! We spent our first Christmas here at the MTC … just the 4 of us enjoying being together and enjoying the day. It was lazy. It was full of laughter and good food. It was memory filled. We even took some time outside to take a few pictures. It was that […]

A Family Affair

January 1, 2016

We often share with folks that it’s our heart’s desire this work we are privileged to participate in be a family ministry (not just daddy’s job). We wanted to give you a glimpse of one way that played out with our own immediate family and the broader family of our sending church body, impacting the […]