Manolo and Nelsi

This weekend Jenny, the boys and I had the wonderful privilege of visiting with Manolo and Nelsi this weekend.  Manolo and Nelsi are our good friends from Chiquian.  From bull fights to killing and eating guinea pigs to Nelsi’s river baptism, we have shared much together.  This weekend, they came and stayed Saturday night with [...]

You Gotta Read This!!!

As a missionary in Lima, Peru, I am charged with the job of starting the “REAP” strategy of church planting amongst micro groups of people here in Lima.   Basically the idea is to partner Baptist Churches in the US with areas in Lima that have very little gospel presence.  Because the strategy is new [...]

Potential “Adoption Area”

Here are a couple of pictures that we took in San Juan de Miraflores in Pamplona Alta, La Nueva Rinconada.  My home church, Union Grove Baptist Church, is praying about adopting the area to begin ministry and, by the grace of God, to plant strong, healthy churches.  Please pray for the people living in this [...]

Feeling Better and Getting Ready

Since my last post, I have had some sickness come my way… in the form of at least one parasite!  I’m still waiting to find out if I have giardia in addition to my other already confirmed parasite.  And in case you didn’t see it on Jenny’s blog, I fell down the steps when our [...]

Christ and Culture

One of the questions that a missionary (and a Christian for that matter) must ask himself regularly is “how am I relating my faith in Christ to the culture around me?”  This question is more complicated for me now as a missionary in a major city where I can choose to live “like a american” [...]

How you can pray for our work

I am often asked what prayer needs we have.  As a result, I thought I’d post today a few ways that you can pray for us as we are getting our ministry started here in Lima.

pray for our continued transition into Lima.  We still await moving into our house and have a good many things [...]

REAP: Your church can be involved!

Here’s what it says on the REAPSouth website:

There are thousands of indigenous peoples throughout South America who are either un-reached or have no viable access to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  To get the gospel message to them in the most effective way, the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has developed and implemented [...]

Why we need REAP?

REAP?  Rapid Entry, Advance Plan.  But what is that?
I suppose the best way to explain REAP as a strategy is to begin with why it is needed.  Getting a missionary to the field is no easy task.  Within the IMB, career missionaries must have seminary education.  That takes time and money.  The “process” of application [...]

Safe and Sound in Chile

After a flight into a Peruvian border town, and a quick hop across the border, we made it to Arica, Chile. We are staying in a nice hotel with complimentary wireless internet. The boys are snug in their beds (the room has three twin beds and one double!) and we are around the [...]

Jesus in a Smile

Last week I went on an unsuccessful trip to the US Embassy here in Lima to get some documents authenticated.  North Carolina doesn’t permit their documents to be authenticated at the embassy here.  As a result, the documents are headed to the States and we are heading to Chile tomorrow to get the boys a [...]