Open Tabs

December 11, 2018

Does your brain ever feel like there is so much going on that you have a hard time keeping things straight? How about keeping the worry at bay when it’s so busy? My brain has felt like a computer screen with many browser windows open or a book with many bookmarks. The above picture is […]

Merry Christmas 2018

December 11, 2018

Merry Christmas! Emmanuel: God with us! What an amazing thing to realize that God became man to take upon Himself the sin of the world. We were sharing this truth with a young man in the store just the other day. Please pray for Dylan. He was very receptive to the things we had to […]

Forward Steps

December 11, 2018

So in my last post I talked about God’s Global Purpose for Israel in the Old Testament. This time let’s look at the last instructions Jesus gave His disciples in the New Testament- The Great Commission: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the […]

Heavy Legs

December 9, 2018

Amdu friends of ours left the village one day on a long journey only to return later the same afternoon despite their intentions to be gone for two weeks. They said their legs got heavy and so they came home. In the Amdu universe when a person goes on a journey and their legs get […]

Special Family Time

December 9, 2018

Family time has been precious to us during our home assignment. We were privileged to spend three weeks with Walter’s family in southern Africa in October. We saw a lot of wildlife out in the open, spent a lot of time in vehicles traveling, and saw where Walter’s brother, Mark, and his wife, Deb live […]

Grandpartners

December 8, 2018

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 […]

Answered Prayers

December 7, 2018

Here are 3 amazing things God did during Joel’s time down in Guinea… Driving The first challenge was the drive to the village. The drive on the whole went better than they thought, but there was one part that was definitely sketchy. Work is being done for a bridge, but it is not close to […]

Signatures

December 5, 2018

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 […]

Prayer needed for Eric

December 5, 2018

Monday night there was an accident on the main road going from town to our village. Five people from our village where on the vehicle when it hit the soft shoulder and rolled. Most of the injuries were minor but one man, Eric, sustained a significant head injury. After a CT scan at the local […]

December News

December 4, 2018

You will be pleased to see that even though I’m late, I did get a picture of David teaching. David is a great teacher and people really engage with his illustrations. David has just started teaching through the book of Acts. One of the first things that happens in Acts is that many people hear […]