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About 15 years ago I sat in a church office late into the night.  It was Wednesday and everyone else had already gone home.  At that time I was living in Jacksonville, FL serving as a youth pastor for middle school and high school students.  A highlight each week was gathering with the teens and […]

Well “winter” has come to the jungle.  It’s been a rainy, cool 70 degree day so the girls were coloring snowy winter pictures, we pulled out some socks, and put the Christmas music on.  Soup and fresh bread was on the menu for supper and we enjoyed a cozy Saturday night together.  Those are some […]

We just got back in the village a couple days ago.  We enjoyed a week and a half of fellowship time with our larger missionary team here in the region we live in.  There were around 25 families and lots of children that met together for a couple days of connecting, sharing how the ministry […]

Dear Friends, Wanted to send out a brief update and thank you for praying for paperwork for us these past 2 weeks.  After Christmas we have been in the coastal town getting Dina’s passport renewed.  And just yesterday we had an interview for her and it should be in our hands in a couple weeks!  […]

Dear Faithful Friends, Seasons greetings from a tropical land!  We hope your month is filled with sweet memories and most of all a heart of reflection on all that God has done through Immanuel- God with us.  As we’ve been working through advent with our girls we’ve appreciated the personal challenge as we seek to […]

Our update is a little late this month.  We’ve had a long month of sickness and we’re just pulling out of it- kinda.   Abby was the first to catch the bug, then 7 days later Dina caught it, then Tim, and finally me.  As I write my entire body is peppered in red, prickly bumps.  […]

It’s crazy how life can get rolling so fast, or be in such a routine that the weeks and months pass so quickly without hardly noticing them.  I’ve found that to be true here.  Can’t believe it’s really into October already.  For us here in the village our months are not marked by the feel […]

I guess Fall is in the air for some of you in America land. One afternoon last week I had a brief moment of smelling an American fall- it had just rained not long before that so it was cooler (low 80’s) and the smell of burning leaves wafted in the air. It made me […]

  Greetings Friends, We write this letter full of sadness for several of our friends here and their situations.  One person is a lady who works for us each day helping with washing our laundry in the river, washing dishes and doing floors.  She has had a rough life filled with having 3 children out […]

Dear Friends, Hope you’re enjoying your summer. It has felt like a hot humid Florida summer here. Except it’s been very dry. We’ve been able to get our exercise by hand pumping our water since we don’t have any rain water to use in this dry season. Thankfully the well has not gone dry yet […]