This week marks the end of our second term here on the mission field and the start to our second furlough. Needless to say it has been one of the busiest and craziest times of my life. On top of packing up our things and doing repairs on our house, getting it ready to turn it over to the owners, we had two very special events at our churches here. This past week we finished our … [Read more...]
Special Offering
We praise the Lord that we just heard from another of our supporting churches that is giving a $5000 special offering towards our land. I am continually amazed at the Lord's goodness and the generosity of God's people. With this offering that brings us down to right at $27,000 left to reach our goal. With only a little more than one month left this is still a great challenge … [Read more...]
Thank you Lord
We praise the Lord for how He is blessing and how many are responding to the great need that we have to pay off our land. We just received two special offerings one for $1000 from an individual and $50 from one of our supporting churches. This is a great need and challenge but as you can see each time someone gives it gets us closer to our goal. Thank you so much for helping … [Read more...]
On the Home Stretch
We have truly seen the Lord bless in tremendous ways while we have been raising funds to buy land here in Bolivia. Just to give you an idea. The land that we are buying is costing right at $100,000. We started out with $30,000 that had been given when we purchased the land. Since then we have had another $30,000 come in towards this need. We are now down to a little under … [Read more...]
Getting Eaten Alive
This past week a man from our church named Jorge and I, were able to travel to the north of Bolivia to the city of Cobija. We were invited on a special mission's trip to visit one of our coworkers that has been working there for almost ten years. Our goal there was to not only preach in the church there in Cobija but to travel to several different villages in the jungle where … [Read more...]