Category: Family

Saying “Yes” Means Saying “No”

Saying “Yes” Means Saying “No”

Fact of life: Saying “Yes” to one opportunity often means saying no to everything else. Background: As many of you know, it’s been a long road and several years of trying to get permission to work among one of the many language groups that are on our island. We’ve tried every approach available to us, […]
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“Simple”

“Simple”

“It was very SIMPLE.” I keep getting the same feedback whenever I teach or preach here: “Simple”. Have you ever heard someone make a comment and you weren’t quite sure if it was a compliment or not? Part of me wants to be offended at this response… and part of me can’t think of a […]
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This Feels Familiar

This Feels Familiar

The Short-n-Sweet: Hi Friends, One step forward… one step back? While a lot has happened over the last few months since returning, we have not had much ‘forward’ movement and find ourselves in the very familiar situation of waiting on God’s direction. But, He has always given clarity at just the right time, every time. […]
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Living on the “Edge”

Living on the “Edge”

What you’ll find below… Hi Friends,   We are happy to be officially settled into the home/island where we relocated a few months back. Our reason for the move was to be closer to the people we are desiring to reach with the hope of Jesus Christ.  Sadly, we have seen little tangible progress towards […]
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Moving Islands Again

Moving Islands Again

What you’ll find below… Hi Friends, We are just coming off a stressful move and looking ahead at a lot of big unknowns. It feels pretty overwhelming at times, but God is faithful to send encouragement through His people and through His Word. Some encouragement from His Word came over the last few days from […]
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Check that off the List

Check that off the List

Thank you to everyone who prayed for us as we were in the process of buying tickets!  God provided what was needed and we think we landed a good itinerary.  (Of course ‘good‘ is relative when you’re talking about 36 hours of travel time!…)  Our departure is scheduled for mid-March.    The best part of it […]
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