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As we head into the Christmas season, we are so thankful again to be reminded of just how much God loved us in sending His Son Jesus to Earth. It’s a special time to celebrate as Christians, and we certainly hope all of you will have a very blessed Christmas season. As for us, weContinue reading “December 2019 Prayer Letter”

Last week started off extremely well as we heard back from a church in New Jersey that voted to begin partnering with us in the ministry! I was so excited to receive that text from the pastor, knowing our reaching Chile with the gospel just got that much closer. We’re still praying God will provide the restContinue reading “Saying Goodbye to Dolly”

*Written on November 14, 2019* Many new happenings are taking place as we approach Thanksgiving! First things first. As you may have read a couple of weeks ago, we found out that Leslie’s mom has cancer and were unsure what would happen going forward. We want to thank several of you who have reached outContinue reading “Our Current Support Level and an Update on Leslie’s Mom’s Cancer”

*This post was originally written on October 28th, 2019* Chile has been in the news lately, but more on that in a minute. I usually like to keep our updates as upbeat as possible, including the titles of the emails, because we are truly loving the life God has given us and are seeing HimContinue reading “Please Pray for Leslie’s Mom”

Don’t ask how I did it, but somehow I scheduled us to be in Texas a week and a half after we were in Pennsylvania (It was not originally supposed to go that way). But it’s actually worked out very well for us inasmuch as one of the churches we were in yesterday has alreadyContinue reading “240 Years and Going Strong!”

I would have sent this update earlier but we were in the car most of the day heading home to Georgia from Colonial Heights, Virginia. We just finished a wonderful week in Pennsylvania and Virginia in three churches, all of which we thoroughly enjoyed. We always have such a good time and certainly hope toContinue reading “Eternal Dreams”

“I have to teach about Isobel Kuhn, whoever that is.” Leslie looked at me for at least some kind of hint. I had read Kuhn’s book By Searching a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. “She was this missionary somewhere,” I said, not really remembering exactly where. “You should read her book; it’s great.” ThusContinue reading “To the North (Again!)”

This month we attended the first of what we hope will be many marriage retreats over the course of our lifetime. In years gone by, I’ve watched everybody else go to these, and it was nice to finally be able to participate in one of them together. We learned so many invaluable things that weContinue reading “Our First Marriage Retreat”

“What are you doing to grow right now?” This question was asked to all of us at the Vision Baptist Missions Orientation, which was held at the Wild’s Christian Camp midway through the month. Orientation is a special time to come apart and be with all of our other missionary friends at Vision, and itContinue reading “In Which We Go to Texas”