After 4,000 miles what could possibly be next?

July 18, 2018

The great western road trip was AWESOME! Between the privilege of seeing, from the ground, the incredible country we’re privileged to live in and all of the people we were able to connect with we were really encouraged. After the trip west, in which we drove from central Florida to central California and back, we settled […]

Choosing Joy

July 18, 2018

One year ago things were quite different from today. We had just welcomed the Brooks to Paradi and were enjoying the new dynamic to our team plus better coffee at team meetings. Kyle and Hala were beginning their senior year of high school. Vivian was teaching the younger girls. Eli was on summer break from […]

Hosting A Team

July 17, 2018

For the first time in our missionary career we hosted a large team from one of our sending churches. We have had a few visitors stay at our house, but never a group of this size. The group came to help fun our kids program for our conference, but wanted to stay a week after […]

Making Needs Known

July 16, 2018

Though we can hardly believe it, the time has come to hit the road again! It seems we just returned to Spokane to begin the second half of our home assignment in Washington… yet May and June have given way to July, and we once again load the truck with all our belongings – preparing […]

Go Mail Team!

July 16, 2018

Summer is the time of year when my responsibilities lessen a bit and Jared’s picks up ten-fold! One thing that must happen here at the school is the delivery of the mail! I am part of that team this summer, as well as working on some projects in the education office. I often think of […]

an overdue update

July 16, 2018

Thanks so much for your prayers these past few weeks. My intention was to send out an update on the projects happening around here about two weeks ago, mid-way through the Gerai Bible audio recording project. But things got pretty crazy around here, people coming and going and getting tangled up in several projects. I […]

Night of the Killer Snakes

July 16, 2018

Seeing snakes is not a common occurrence around here. All the snakes I have seen since moving here in 2012 could probably be counted using only my fingers and toes, so we are talking about only a few snake sightings per year. Often, those sightings come on a sunny afternoon when the snakes are laying […]

Kims’ update (2018 Summer)

July 14, 2018

Kims’ update (2018 Summer) The gospel in Ketengban It is not uncommon for villagers to move into cities. Sen#$&’s residents include both villagers and townsfolk. Some friends and I have had a privilege to teach the gospel in one of Sen#$%i’s neighborhood, a village named Ketengban. They seem to have no interest in the spiritual things, […]

Why do the good ones die?

July 13, 2018

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 […]

Gozo en Tiempos de Espera

July 13, 2018

Entonces llamaron a los apóstoles y, luego de azotarlos, les ordenaron que no hablaran más en el nombre de Jesús. Después de eso los soltaron. Así, pues, los apóstoles salieron del Consejo, llenos de gozo por haber sido considerados dignos de sufrir afrentas por causa del Nombre. Y día tras día, en el templo y […]