We had dinner with another VMS family last weekend and heard about a church that some of the volunteers and missionaries at JAARS go to.  It is called Hope of Israel and it is a Messianic Jew church.  Simply put, they are Jews who believe Jesus is the Messiah.  What made us want to go [...]

A day of leisure and recreation has been long-needed. We’ve been so busy the past month or so with the RV move-in and house move-out that I can’t remember the last day we spent just doing some sort of leisure activity all-day. 
The day began with the ordinary; we left out late to start the [...]

It's interesting how much in my mind I see myself as traditional or old-fashioned, especially when things like what happened today take place.  Now that Dana has a laptop (a very NICE Sony VAIO might I add) she can understand the importance of mine in staying 'connected' to the outside world.  Forget making sure the [...]

I'm excited to see some great options come to the theaters.  It was such a discovery to Dana and I when we noticed by what we were allowing ourselves to be 'entertained'.  Our conclusion was heavy when it hit us that if in real life we wouldn't like to be around situations of profane language, half-naked people [...]

The load we are experiencing right now is quite heavy with the move to the RV, VMS training, getting the house ready for sale, commuting 2 hours a day, trying to do partnership development and the list goes on.  Once a person decides to go into the ministry, in our case into full-time missions, exemption [...]

 
I put two clocks to the right on my blog here.  The top one shows our local time and the other shows time in Tanzania.  So, why the one from a place over an ocean away?  Well, Dana and I have begun communication with the Uganda-Tanzania Branch (UTB) exploring a possible assignment with them.  This is [...]

 
The other night I was driving home alone from Wal-Mart when I heard some Bible verses being read on New Life 91.9.  I can't recall what they were but they spoke of the passing away of temporal things and nothing being left but the eternal.  I heard this just as I was driving into our [...]

Today started out quite hectic but ended up being one of our best of recent.  For a few weeks, we have had a partnership development presentation scheduled for the Sunday School class of one of our dear friends.  Their class meets at the same time ours does at 10:30am at North Campus.  Two days ago, [...]

  No, it is not a rare species of cat in east Africa. Long and Leopard are two very special names to us. Each refers to a different Sunday School class at our church. This morning, we had the opportunity to give a presentation to both classes.  The schedule was tight as the Long class [...]