Not my own original thoughts, unfortunately, but those of Carl Medearis, who is one of my missions heros and has influenced and articulated what is in our hearts a lot over the last few years. Carl has been working in the Middle East for many, many years and is refreshingly unorthodox in his methods and [...]

It’s been a pretty slow week actually. We spent most of the weekend painting my office, had a few friends over for dinner and watched a really interesting movie called Traitor. Since our little community is becoming more firm and established we’re also spending more time doing actually “pastoral” work too – meeting people for [...]

Well, the cookout on the 4th was a smashing success. At least, we had a good time. I think the 28 other people there would say the same thing. The weather was gorgeous, if a bit windy. We ended up eating left-overs for about 5 days after because of the abundance of food. And here [...]

You probably noticed that the blog is looking a little different these days. She’s been so neglected and mistreated lately that she just had to paint up her little face and get a haircut to try to get our attention. Hopefully it will work and you’ll hear from us a little more often. Tomorrow we’re [...]