As we prepared to move in March, we said goodbye to our dear friends at Bible Baptist Church. We were blessed to work with them for eight wonderful months. One dear couple, Tom and Eunice, had me in their home for our last discipleship clas [...]
Just the other day, my wife turned to me and said, “Can you believe we live in Africa?” In most ways, life here has become very normal, and we don’t even consider that we live in what some would find a very difficult, third-world culture. H [...]
At the end of August, we took a survey trip to Kisumu, Kenya’s third-largest city, to see the need for churches. While many churches have the word Baptist in their name, I visited 10 Baptist churches and could not find one that was of like [...]
We have had many ups and downs in the short time we’ve been here in Kenya, but God has been good through it all. We have dealt with sicknesses and injuries and many spiritual battles. I’m thankful for those who are praying for us. God has a [...]
We made it! God blessed us with as uneventful of a trip as can be expected with five children. We were so blessed to have a man and his three sons from one of our supporting churches escort us to the airport, a 5½-hour drive one way. By pre [...]
It seems like I just sent you an update of our ministry, but there have been a lot of things going on recently. We had a desire to leave for Kenya before April, which did not seem possible late last year. However, the Lord continued to bles [...]
I hope that all of you had a great end to your year with a Christ-filled Christmas. God blessed us abundantly during the last few months. We had some great meetings to finish out the year, which left us encouraged, as we plan to depart for [...]
For those of you who have not yet heard, we would like to introduce to you the newest member of Team East Africa: Adilene Fae McDonald, born August 31, 2018. I won’t bore you with all the details, but I will say that God provided for us eve [...]
Thank you for your continued prayer and financial support. We recently had nine churches vote to take us on for support! God has been so good to us through many ups and downs. We were the proud owners of a camper for about 2.3 seconds! With [...]
We have had a busy couple of months! We have had some great meetings and missions conferences. It has been encouraging to see many pastors’ missions goals not only reached but exceeded. We ended February at a missions conference in Arkansas [...]
