We hope you’re well and safe amidst these unusual times. We just thought we’d write to fill you in on our lives in lockdown and other recent news. Covid-19… To kick off with, we’ve been very fortunate in remaining healthy as a family during this time. We have a number of parks/green spaces within walking…

Every person’s journey with Christ is unique, and yet we can learn much from others that have walked a similar path. Many times, we wonder what we could possibly have in common with a missionary. After all, missionaries are people that denounced their life, gave up everything, and moved to an impoverished country in order…

I’m sitting here struggling with how to tell this story. For some reason this has been an abnormally difficult thing to write about for me. I’ve written the first paragraph multiple times and every time found myself frustrated with the way I’m conveying my thoughts. For some reason there seems to be a block between…

Picture spending years striving for your dream and praying and hoping that the right opportunity would come along. Suddenly you find an opportunity that seems to tick every single box on your checklist. You change everything in your life to make that happen including moving to a brand-new culture with your young children. You’ve left…

I grew up in the church and my parents were the ultimate servants. They always gave everything of themselves without even questioning why or who needed them. If there was a call, they simply answered. They’ve always been that way for as long as I can remember, and because of that I had a childhood…

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Serving in Senegal I’m 31 years old. Like most millennials these days I feel incredibly old. I spend much of my life talking about back pain, knee pain, and my impending retirement. I wear a beard, but like most it isn’t out of style concerns but rather out of general laziness. I’m so old that…