Sorry we’ve been pretty MIA on the blog recently.  It’s certainly not because nothing has been happening.  This has probably been one of the most intense few weeks in a long time.  Make that most intense few months, I guess. As many of you know, last week we found out that my boss, Tom Russell, [...]

It’s been a while since we last posted, so I thought I’d throw out a few interesting nuggets: Most Interesting Person: Yesterday I met an older gentleman named Neil who is world renowned for training rescue and caedavor dogs.  He lives right outside Newcastle in the mountains. God Is Too Good To Us Yet Again: [...]

This is a strange thing to be thinking about when it’s been such a week of celebrating God’s goodness (did you hear we got our visa!?!), but I’ve been thinking about pain today. One of the most alarming things about Jesus and his teaching is that He never guarantees that we won’t be hurt – [...]

We submitted our visa applications today. Next Tuesday we have to go and get our biometric data taken and then we just wait. If we are granted a visa, we’ll leave around the 1st of September. If not, we have a couple other options to try. Please pray with us, though. It would certainly be [...]

I don’t have any funny stories or anything today.  I just want to tell you how wonderful my God is.  He has been waking my heart up in such a new way.  There aren’t words that are big enough to tell you how much I love him or even approach how much he loves me [...]