Helpless in Paradise

Waves rolling over us can be gentle and relaxing. But sometimes they can be downright scary, and even dangerous. At mile marker 88 of Route 19 on the Big Island of Hawaii there is a soft, sandy beach known as Manini’owali. Volunteering for a missionary organization in Hawaii has its perks, so we crept off […]

Building a Mission in the Air

Imagine boarding a flight without knowing the destination. The pilot is going to file the flight plan once you are underway. Perhaps you were enticed to board, or you are walking the jetway at gunpoint. Maybe you were promised that the destination was a dream come true for you. Now imagine you are told the […]

An Update from the Mrs.

I love a good story, don’t you? Especially a true story that brags on God and turns my gaze to Him in wonder at how He takes good care of His kids. Well, I’ve got a good story for you. It wasn’t the first time I’d heard a doctor become quiet in an exam room. […]

Mission: Possible

“Then he believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.” -Genesis 15:6 The sun rose on the new year five hours later here than it did back home in Albany NY. We are starting the year off pressing into the task before us. No long weekend, no New Years Day off, […]

Called out of the depth

Totally dark and devoid of hope, I existed merely to exist. Although born to a family who loved me and born again into a faith that sustained me, I existed merely to exist. Drugs had become my social identity as I desperately clung to friends who were, I thought, somehow impressed with my unlawful and […]

Eleven

Eleven days … Until we leave Albany behind and travel to Texas for Christmas with my brother and his family (and my Mom & Dad too!). Eleven days later … We leave my brother’s house in San Angelo to catch a plane to Kailua Kona Hawaii and begin preparations to staff a school this winter. Eleven […]

Little Miss Update

Little Miss had an online language arts homeschool assignment today and created this newsy newspaper. I love her heart! Don’t you? And obviously the way to her heart is through pretzels…so, there’s that. Thank you for reading, for sending us out and praying. We appreciate you!

An Update from the Mrs.

Conflict makes me uncomfortable. When Sam and I first got married, I didn’t know how to deal with conflict in our marriage. If we would enter into any intense conversation, I would shrink back and shut down. It took time, patience on both our parts and guts on my part to open my mouth and […]

Our Fellow Humans

“But who am I and who are my people that we should be able to offer as generously as this? For all things come from You, and from Your hand we have given You. For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were” — King David By most accounts, Joshua Wheeler […]

Releasing

Katie had been wanting to access her art supplies, especially some of her “earlier work.” So she positioned herself nearby, as I handed box after box down through the attic hole into Angie’s arms. As these odd shaped boxes, a mish-mash of crates, totes, bags, and boxes, made their way to the garage floor, Katie […]