We are so thankful for the folks who worked so hard during our six days of medical campaign. God brought a tremendous team together! Dr. Thom Williams – Medical doctor Dr. Harry Gibson – Dentist Miss Kristina Matson – nurse Mr. Daryn Propp (far left) – crowd-control and general help Mr. Segundo Sebastian (far left) […]
We’ve all done it… at least I know that I have…and way too often. Without planning on it, and seemingly without any forethought at all, I’ve allowed critical speech to slip out of my mouth. Sometimes its downright pernicious, ugly, cutting, and biting. At others it appears to be innocuous, normal, and nearly innocent. But […]
For some, the question might seem redundant, and the answer obvious: We practice medical missions to help people! However, if you were to look around online, you would find a number of objections to medical missions. Some object to the religious or philosophical grounds. Others argue that it creates dependency. Others reason that there cannot […]
FURLOUGH… The word can be one of the most dreaded or one of the most delightful for a missionary family. Yes I know other terms are used now: “home-assignment”, “stateside ministry”, or some call it “vacation”! For Homeschoolers, life continues… Veteran missionary Don Sisk has this brief article regarding furlough, explaining that missionary furloughs have changed over […]
Below you will see a video of a famous stretch of the “Bajo Urubamba” river. Loren and I first went through here almost 14 years ago just after our honeymoon on our way to the Yine village of Miaría. This time I was privileged to take Segundo Sebastian, our missionary in training; Sattler George, missions […]
Peru is a beautiful country with a huge variety of scenery, showing us God´s powerful hand. May we savor God´s love for beauty and for us! This is Puerto Arturo, a few minutes from our house. We were able to visit Machu Picchu a couple years ago. We have a lot of beautiful flowers here, […]
We were blessed in lots of ways in November! November 2nd was Joseph’s birthday: 9 years old, what a blessing! On November 5th, we rejoiced in two more being baptized! Including our first deaf believer´s baptism here! On November 6th I headed to Cusco to teach two, two-week block classes at the Baptist Bible college. […]
So Loren took the ladies to a conference on the other side of the country. We were just glad to survive the 4 days they were gone! haha Joseph cooked us eggs every morning! We continued slaving away on the chicken coop. We went to check on the 100 chicks we ordered, and spread […]
I. From Romans 15:30-32 a. for physical protection b. for an acceptable ministry to the saints c. for journeying mercies d. for Divine guidance e. for spiritual and physical refreshing II. From 2 Corinthians 1:8,11 a. for relief from pressure b. for help in trouble III. From Ephesians 6:18-19 a. for God’s message for each […]
Deut. 6:6-9And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign […]