Still Alive

I am only posting a line or two to let you know that “the stomach bug” didn’t do me in and that I’m still alive!  Over the the next few days I plan to post on a few things that are tumbling through my mind:  lessons I learned during my family’s time of sickness, a [...]

Pray for my Home Church

Today is a sad day in the life of my home church, Union Grove Baptist Church.  A man dear to our hearts died today and his passing has brought pain to many in our church and community.  I ask you to remember in prayer our church, its leadership, and especially the family involved as they [...]

Approaching the End

Amazing as it seems to me, we are approaching the end of FPO and I feel as though God has taught me much. We have an “exit paper” due today. In reflecting of the course of my experience at FPO, I can see some of the areas of my life where God has [...]

My B-Day!

Thanks to all of you who have wished me a happy birthday via email, blog, or phone call.  It has been a good day.  Caleb is better and went to school for the second half of the day.  I actually stayed with him this morning so that Jen wouldn’t miss too much of the regional [...]

One more thing…

In reference to my last post, I had one more thought in relation to suffering and missions:
I can be obedient to God and follow Him where he leads me and suffer as he allows, or I can stay here in disobedience and still not be able to avoid suffering. Whether or not I experience [...]

A Lesson in Suffering

Caleb has a stomach bug. You know the deal- the kind of thing no one wants wants to get, let alone their kid get, and they DEFINITELY don’t want anyone else in the family to get it. As I’ve watched Caleb feel so bad, it caused me to reflect upon some of the things [...]

Great to see family

Today was a fun day of visiting with some of my family. Fay, Bill, Kaitlyn, Samantha, little Glen, Joe Joe and Mac all came up to ILC! They arrived around 8:30 or 9am on the motor home and spent the whole day with us. We played here, took a tour of the [...]

Shot Day… the finale’

Today is the third and final installment in fulfilling our vaccination requirements.  After today, we are one lab work (blood test) away from being completely done with the poking and prodding.  In fact, Jen and I are done after today and the boys we get the lab work done early next week (yes, all three [...]

DC update

We had a great day!  Jenny had a different b-day for sure!  It certainly was surprising!
As for DC, we had a fantastic day- thanks for your prayers!  Among the highlights were riding the metro with the boys (a train for Luke!), sharing the gospel with a couple different men, walking up and hearing [...]

Happy Birthday, Jen!

Tomorrow Jenny turns 30 years old! Wow! And we’ll be going to D.C. to share Jesus with people and hopefully find some internationals from South America (pray for us). Along with the main gift, I had the boys draw Jen cards tonight while she was at a meeting (see picture below). [...]