Category: Newsletter

I Shall Not Be Shaken The news is flooded with pictures, reels, and words designed to shake our soul. Our mind and imaginations can crumble with worry and anxiety….

WE ALL MATTER I’m staggered as reports are filtering in from around the globe; what we do matters. It matters to people, it matters to families, it matters to…

Living in the Parable “Blessed is the one who is not offended by Me.”(Matthew 11:6). A few chapters later Jesus bluntly speaks to the Pharisees. Peter speaking for the…

Keeping It In the “Family” FAMILY – what a joy to serve Jesus with your family! All our children and their spouses serve with us in the nations. Josiah…

Joy Overcomes Darkness Our ears tickled with the roar of unfiltered laughter sprinkled with voices speaking Khmer (the language of Cambodia). Our eyes absorbed the wide smiles and glimmering eyes…

When I was a boy, my grandfather in Rosebud, Arkansas had a small farm with 200 head of cattle. So many great memories were made there. As we’d spend…

The Boyds Volunteer Kadan, Czechia became ground zero for God to expand our family beyond our normal boundaries.So when a young Polish church planter, tears-filled eyes, explaining the condition…

Friendship Dean and Tomica: We met these two Croatian men in one of our first PI equipping schools 20 years ago as young leaders in a church movement based…

Immanuel, God With Us I’ll never forget the joy and intrigue of sitting with Callie, my wife, pondering names for our children amid her pregnancies. We would pray and…

“. . . having done all, to stand.” (Ephesians 6:13) The term ‘having done all, to stand,’ is daunting. It indicates that after we have given our all, when…

Reboot Mission This has been a year of an almost complete reboot of our work worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic, then the war within Ukraine, either slowed or postponed much…

Without Hypocrisy One of the few times Jesus got aggressive was when he called out the hypocrisy of the religious leaders.  Matthew 6:2 “Thus, when you give to the…