Author: Tim and Andrea Ullum

Dear Friends and Family, Here is an update to let you know what has been going on, on this side of the world and how you can be praying about some EXCITING UPCOMING EVENTS! PAST The past 2 months have been a change for some of us: I(Andrea) have completed my official language study so […]

Dear Following Friends, We do really appreciate you, our friends and family, that follow these updates and are walking this path with us here.  In our last update we mentioned that I (Andrea) was having my last language exam/evaluation.  PHEW it’s over and I passed!!!!  Thank you SO much for praying about it with me, […]

Welcome summer!  I’m sure this is on many of your minds.  After reading posts on facebook all about school getting out, people heading to the beach, and cookouts it feels more like real summer to me.  With our summer-like weather year round it’s a challenge to remember the change of seasons in other parts of […]

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.  […]