Taking Initiative

June 23, 2018

Just before Orlando, the father of 8, taught Roberto his second time he had an urgent appeal for the rest of us on the teaching team. He urged us to remember when we are studying each lesson getting ready to teach, take time to pray for the Spirit’s guiding because we don’t […]

The edge of the Church Planting seeds of Life.

June 23, 2018

Right near our jungle house here lives 30+ year old Roberto, a single man and Captain of his Cubeo village. Because his village lives sandwiched in the middle of Guanano speaking territory they are very multi-lingual and speak Guanano almost as well as their mother tongue, Cubeo. Roberto was born and grew up during the […]

Deep Impact

June 23, 2018

Rey carried a big teaching load over the two weeks, waking up at 2 or 3 am to study, at night studying late to be ready to teach Roberto. Some of the themes and Bible stories were new to him and impressed him. So at the end of the teaching he came over to our porch just […]

New thoughts lead to New Life!

June 23, 2018

“Well after hearing the whole teaching starting at where the triune God lived fine, before the creation of this world all the way up to how Jesus planned the end of His story of setting all the sinful bad things in this world right again and making a new heaven and earth, […]

How did I get here?

June 22, 2018

Pre-field Orientation 2018 for Associate Members of Ethnos360Here I am in Sanford, Florida, home office of Ethnos360, hearing from missionaries who have served all over the world— lives dedicated to seeing “unreached people” reached with the gospel. I am at a Pre-field Orientation preparing to “go” to Papua New Guinea, a place that still takes […]

2018 Solar Electric Seminar

June 22, 2018

When you are not part of Ethnos360 where do you go to get training, equipment and tech support on off-grid solar electric systems? You could go to a local supplier but will their system work in a remote location in the tropics? Also will the system handle all the lightning that happens in tropical […]

Disappointment

June 22, 2018

This year we have been wondering what to do for schooling for our boys next year. The school the boys go to changes systems after elementary school and we weren’t sure if it would be a good fit for Ethan. Plus we know at some point we will need to switch them from French back […]

Rustic Travels

June 22, 2018

In the late 1950s, Sophie Muller, a blue-eyed, single woman with a background in journalism and art, traveled the rivers and jungles of Colombia, spending several days each month in each village. There were no planes, no hotels, no restaurants. Travel meant sitting on the rough wooden bench of a dugout canoe for days on […]

Go mulch yourself

June 21, 2018

I’m pretty sure that if I used “weed and feed” on my “lawn,” I wouldn’t have a lawn anymore. Our herb garden, however, is an entirely different matter. I thoroughly weeded the area. I dug down and added planting mix. I weeded again. And then I mulched. I weeded once more, and I added more […]

Truth had the last Word

June 21, 2018

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 […]