April 2017 UpdateDear Family and Friends,I have been impressed by the calling on our lives … a calling to humble ourselves like little children so that we might know the joy of being in the presence of Jesus … the kingdom of heaven … a place where authority, peace,...
March 2017 UpdateDear Friends and Family,Today marked two weeks since our last team operated on a patient. With two weeks of healing behind them, patients came to our first of four follow up clinics to have stitches removed, xrays examined, and a prescription for the...
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 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 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.”...