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Our 2016–2019 Updates
Our updates from February 2016 through April 2019 are kept in a password-protected archive to respect the privacy of people mentioned in those posts. You can read them in our East Asia Archive. If you need the password, please reach out to us directly via email or WhatsApp—we’d be happy to hear from you! Our…
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Security in Uncertainty
We hung up our winter-time ropes and the boys love it! Psalm 37:7 Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him. God promised Abraham he’d father a great nation, but it’s not until 8 chapters later and a lot of trouble in-between (famine, trouble with Egypt, family feud, war, family taken hostage, marital problems,…
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Year in Review 2015
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! (Or Seasons Greetings! to those who prefer brevity, which I’ve now destroyed with this long add-on sentence.) In the spirit of the year-in-review letters that some people (much more on top of things than I) send out with Christmas cards this time of year, I thought I would give…
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Romanian Visit
The work team: Mike Ballay, Matt Gatenby and Steve Komnath working in the background. Larry Baker coming up the steps. Les Fetterman not pictured. Happy Thanksgiving! In keeping with the season, we are so thankful that God doesn’t show us what’s going to be happening in our lives too much in advance. This month, as…
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Missionary Medical Intensive (MMI)
The box piles that need sorted haven’t diminished in the least, but a million other things are happening! It’s great to be back at our home church and involved in our ministries there again. Lance works at church once a week and thoroughly enjoys everything he’s learning during the pastors’ meetings he attends and the…
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When Is a Good Time to Go?
When do you go to the mission field? Do you go when your children are young and not yet as independent as would be convenient? Do you go when they’re older and are making strong friendships? Do you go when they’re teens and struggling with so many other changes? How about family? When is a…
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Outfitting Phase
We’ve continued the kettlebell workouts that we learned during our missions training. The boys have joined in our workout circle. Last month we graduated from The Master’s Mission (TMM) missionary training program and are now in the strange new world of “outfitting.” It’s pretty much just more training in new areas (although some are the same –…
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We Have Our Heading!
An Orthodox Church with the saints they worship painted on the outside. Brazil, Guatemala, Kenya, Ecuador, Israel, China – depending on who you are and when you’ve talked with us in the past few years, you could’ve heard us talk about any one of these countries as a possible destination for our ministry and sometimes…
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Next Up – Outfitting
Lance taking down the greenhouse. Unbelievably we are in the last month of our missionary training at The Master’s Mission (TMM). The time has flown and we are finishing up our last assignments and classes. The year has been a rollercoaster of emotions and hard work and these last few weeks are no different. We’re…
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Fun on the Mountain
If you’re thinking about coming to The Master’s Mission (TMM) for training, you may wonder if it’s all work and no play. Their adage is, “Work hard, play hard.” The following is a short list of some of the fun (and crazy!) things we’ve done this year. September: Mud walks. October: Candidate game party at…