PNG & QUARANTINE

January 30, 2021

Barefoot, I bend down and pick another clothes pin from a tin can. The breeze is warm and swirls around the little, wet dress I clip on the wash line. I smile. Our Lydia adores this yellow dress. Deep breathe. “Lord, you did it’. My hearts whispers to My good God. The last 2 months […]

Continued provision, waiting on Hazel.

January 20, 2021

We hope all of you had a great Christmas and New Years, we were grateful to spend some wonderful time with both of our families this Christmas. -Enjoying a picture-perfect white Christmas together.- I think “Great with Child” describes how Rachel feels right now, we’re all excited for baby Hazel to make her appearance, sometime around […]

Quick Update

December 4, 2020

How are our kids doing? At this moment, the kids are doing well. We’ve kept just enough semblance of sanity with Jack being at in-person student at his school (he only physically goes to class two days a week and does the rest of his classwork from home) and Owen and Kate both being virtual at the charter […]

Grateful For His Faithfulness

November 25, 2020

Recap of video: We’re praising the Lord for the way we’ve seen Him work, bringing new partners on board. Recent trip to Missouri:-We had the opportunity to share an update with Crosslife, the local church we were a part of during our time at the Ethnos360 Training Center.-We were also able to meet with some […]

It’s a…

September 19, 2020

Update on baby #2, current support level and what we've been up to.

Back to school…

September 11, 2020

WELL. What a couple of weeks it has been in our house… “School” has started for our kids and they’re not exactly huge fans of the, “this new thing.” But, then again, who is? It is proving to be a often confusing challenge. And it is proving to be an opportunity to practice patience. Blech! […]

When God is working…

August 19, 2020

August is cranking by, isn’t it? It seems funny the way summer seemed to take forever to get here with the way “spring” got started, but now that the fall is on the horizon time seems to be speeding up! Thank God that at least He is constant. July was spent doing a lot of […]

Home Again

July 23, 2020

After a wonderful time in Washington with family we are excited to be back in Tennessee continuing partnership development.

Family News and Proofreading

May 30, 2020

Our first grandchild has arrived! Our oldest daughter, Esther, and her husband, Tim, shared this about the birth of their first child: “We welcomed Daniel Alden Lawrence into the world on May 27, 2020 at 5:45pm. He was 6 days overdue, but teeny tiny at 5lbs 9oz. It was an unplanned C-section due to some […]

Reopening

April 30, 2020

Do we dare hope? First of all, if you want to WATCH this update rather than read it, we have a video version of it posted in our Facebook Ministry Group here. Feel free to watch and comment. Or you could open it up and just listen as you cook dinner or…I would say on your daily […]