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I’ve been reading in the Psalms and was encouraged by Psalms 93 this week. Its talks of how awesome God’s works are, how He enables us to flourish like a palm tree, and how God wants us to be fruitful from our youth until we reach old age. I think it’s cool how the God […]

New Year’s Greetings! We wanted to send out a few pictures and updates on what our ministry in town and in the villages has looked like these last few months! After about a month of staying at the mission home complex we had done enough setup for us to move into a house we are […]

In Just a few days we will begin our travels that will take us back to our other home in Southeast Asia. We have had a very different but also refreshing home assignment. Who could have guessed how Covid would affect us all in 2020, but our family has benefited by the required, “stay at […]

Most of us could pretty quickly come up with verses that speak to people going to the mission field. There is the Great Commission in all it’s different variations and then there are several sections from the book of Acts that demonstrate the missionary mandate of going into all the world. These verses along with […]

This Sunday May 31 is a special day of prayer for unreached peoples around the world. Ethnos360 is a founding member of the Alliance for the Unreached. Here is a link to their website https://alliancefortheunreached.org/ where you can find out more about praying for unreached peoples. There is a live web event at 3 pm […]

Back in fall of last year, some friends in Jacksonville reached out to us about writing a kids book. The church we attend in Jacksonville has a reading program for the youth highlighting missionary biographies. One of their ideas was to not only use biographies of “famous” missionaries but also to highlight the missionaries and […]

We wanted to share a short video with you. The video highlights a close friend of ours from the village. As you will see in the video he died late last year. His death was for me was one of the most painful experiences of our last term on the field. This painful experience left […]

Hi Friends we wanted to give an update on what our family is doing while on our home assignment in the States. We have now been on US soil for a little over 2 months. We were able to spend Thanksgiving through the New Year up in Michigan with Andrea’s family. It was a fun […]

Greetings! As a follow-up from our September update we are now into rainy season again! The smoke has cleared and there is plenty of water again. Thanks for many of you who prayed us through that challenging time! The first rain storm we had was welcomed with all of us running in the rain! We’ve […]

Greetings from the Tropical Desert, We’re well into dry season which has turned the bright green jungle into a drab dusty brown. Dry season corresponds with the start of rice planting. Most traditional farmers in this area still use a slash and burn method of planting. This burning of the forest, along with larger plantations […]