The decorations are all put away…

January 13, 2020

The holidays are one of the busiest times of the year for the Guest House…and we LOVE it!!!There’s just so much to fill you in on. Thanksgiving had us able to host nine other folks besides our family. Three are missionaries, two were folks from Mississippi visiting their kids who are the missionaries from Mexico, […]

Holiday season recap

January 14, 2019

Looking back at the last eight years and I realized that we haven’t had two “holiday seasons” the same. Each year looks different around here when it comes to the “traditional” holiday seasons. November held a visit from Torre’s mom and us hosting Thanksgiving. We had a family from the Guest House over to enjoy […]

Technology

April 12, 2018

Technology. How I loath it. How I love it. I love keeping in touch with my family. My dad now has a smart phone and even uses emoji’s! I’m not a fan of how it seems to suck my kids in with the flashy screen. However, last week I realized how much technology really does […]

How I Enjoy the Fall in My Desert

October 3, 2017

I have loved fall before Pinterest and Facebook made cool posters proclaiming it as a wonderful time of the year. Before I even met Torre I wanted to get married in October. Ta-da! God blessed me with that AND it was peak color season for all the trees in Michigan. Fast forward to 2008 […]

Uber-esque

July 30, 2017

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be an Uber driver? No? Neither have I, but this last week I had the opportunity to serve like one. At least it felt what I think an Uber driver must feel like. It started with picking Narah up from the airport last Monday night as […]

Ethnos360 Name Change

May 25, 2017

We wanted to share with you the new name change of New Tribes Mission to Ethnos360. Many of you have heard of the change, but the following is a letter from our leadership that goes into more details about it. “Why have we changed our name to Ethnos360 from New Tribes Mission USA? Because we’re […]

We know how to bake

November 17, 2016

We love food. We are thankful to live in a land where we are able to make just about anything our hearts desire. Our favorite things to make are baked goods. Part of our goal this year is to have a schedule that is more open for having folks over for dessert, or dinner. I […]

So how was your year?

September 13, 2016

“So how was your Home Assignment this past year?” How do you sum up ten months of constant changes? I mean some memories looked like this…. Then there was this one we all will be talking about years later. And brand new experiences seemed to happen a lot. Meeting new people […]

Home is where…

May 10, 2016

I read a book recently asking the reader where home was. Would home always be a certain place? Do you feel at home where you are currently at? I was explaining to the kids that we were hoping to visit our friends and coworkers Chris and Rachel Thomas in Mississippi on our way back to […]

Some Michigan information

February 23, 2016

Here is some Michigan geography for you; Michigan is made up of two peninsulas, the Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula. We are currently residing in the Lower Peninsula. What many do not realize is that there is a third peninsula, the Keweenaw Peninsula. The camp we spoke at this past summer (Gitche Gumee Bible […]