January 2017 Update

January 2017 Update

January 2017 UpdateThe walkway between our apartment here in the jungle and our main guest house we lovingly call “Jungle Bunks” or JB for short … is a continually changing pathway … though you would not be aware of those changes unless one awakened you through one of...
Christmas 2016 Update

Christmas 2016 Update

Christmas 2016 UpdateRain dripping on a tin roof, tropical bird calls, the whine of a hungry, rather-largish German Shepherd puppy, and the background Christmas music of Kenny G. These are sounds heard as I sit writing in Cashibococha, our current home just outside of...
December 2016 Update

December 2016 Update

December 2016 UpdateFriday was to be a day of travel … by car … up into the mountains with a friend … for several reasons. The one I was looking forward to the most was time with this friend … time to talk … time to share in each others lives. But a...

Agape LoveThe young pastor moved slowly off his hospital bed and stood looking down. I wondered why he was gazing downward. Without lifting his head, he said, “This is the first time in 14 years that I have looked down and found my knees to be level with each other.”...
September 2016 Update

September 2016 Update

September 2016 UpdateDear Family & Friends,Laurie, Lyndi, and I returned to Peru almost a month ago. The transition back has felt like we never left. We were welcomed back to our jungle home with many familiar critters greeting us on our walkway and around the...
July 2016 Update

July 2016 Update

July 2016 UpdateDear Family & Friends,Listening to the word of God as we contemplate and prepare for our return to Peru.For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all,...