Timeline

We are Detroit-bound! We just got the word that we are approved for a place to live! After being State-side for one month, having gone on a vision trip for one week, we finally have secured a landing spot in Detroit. No, we won’t be in Hamtramck, not yet. We are going to settle in […]

Berlin

Hey all, Sam here! We are in Albany, preparing our move to the Detroit area, and I thought I’d post a little over the next few days about what we are doing, what we will be doing, and first, what we have done already. While looking to the future, and managing the present, putting some […]

#Revival

Earlier in the evening, I received a text confirming that a family we had been sharing the Gospel with had accepted Christ. I met this family along with the members of our last team. We had prayed for God to open a new door and had walked not even 10 feet in the refugee camp […]

Two Men, the Last Tea, and Jesus.

I could tell you about the huge meal we were served, all 18 of us. I could tell you about the fun the kids had or the laughter all of us adults shared. Or about the journey to get there, by train, by months and months of ministry, on the backs of team after team. […]

Who Takes Over As We Take Off?

From homeless shelters to well-funded technical training centers, from refugee-filled gymnasiums to shipping-container trailer-parks we have brought the Gospel to bear wherever we could. Now, as we position ourselves to follow God’s call to Detroit, as we lead our last team into ministry here in Berlin, “who will take over what you are doing when […]

Refugee House visits

Today I led a team from YWAM Korea into a refugee camp for what I like to call “cultural exchange”. We have built up enough trust now to have blanket permission to enter this camp whenever we want with whomever we want so we go and just see who God brings us to on any […]

How to Support Us

If you don’t know where to go to either start supporting our work monthly or to partner with us via a one-time gift, click on the give now image. We could not do anything without our supporters. We are very appreciative of any gift that is given. Everyone who gives through this link will […]

Elect Refugees (Eklektois Parepidemois)

Jesus loves refugees. We don’t need to contextualize the Scriptures to see this. It is written in black and white, from beginning to end. And while He loves all refugees, He has something special for His elect refugees. K, a refugee, met Jesus when a short-term team came through. Hailing from a predominantly Muslim country, […]

An Update from the Mrs.

The ingredients finally all assembled in my kitchen, I double checked the recipe for Grandma’s cinnamon rolls. New-to-me type of yeast, German butter, flour, zimt (I think my brain has erased the English word ‘cinnamon’ and permanently overlayed it with this German vocabulary word), salt, milk, and Zuckerrübensirup in place of dark Karo syrup. It’s an adventure […]

My Privilege

As a White American Christian, my level of privilege places me in a bubble where it is easy to get along. And how do I get along so well in this world while others suffer? The easy answer has always been “I am lucky”. And while that may be true in a sense, it doesn’t […]