Momentum can be a fickle thing. Perhaps you can attest after watching “your” sports team reel off several wins after several losses. Perhaps you can even give testimony to seeing it at work in your church. And who can possibly forget that o [...]
It has been a chilly month here in São Paulo. Last night it was 43 degrees at our house. To those of you who live in the Snow Belt, that won’t seem like anything, but I can assure you that when you have no fireplace and no central heat, 43 [...]
This is one of those months where it is easy to write a letter to you. Sometimes there are difficulties or trials, and other times we are sailing on calm seas with a favorable wind. In either situation, God is always working, and I have fou [...]
Thank you all so much for your continued prayers and support. We are blessed to have the opportunities that we do to share Christ in a needy place. I think all of us, from time to time, wonder how much the other side really pays attention t [...]
I hope that all of you were able to enjoy a wonderful Christmas season. Here in São Paulo, Christmas always seems very odd to me; I think it has to do with it being in the Brazilian summer, so it’s always 90-plus degrees—I want my snow! On [...]
We are praising God for all that He is doing in our midst and for the many opportunities that are opening up as we work to build up a group of established, mature, active believers here in Guarulhos, Brazil. It has been some time since our [...]
Apparently there is a very popular TV show in the U.S. that involves a lot of zombies roaming around. Though I have never seen the show, I can imagine that any missionaries who are in the phase that we are in would fit right in with said zo [...]
I cannot begin to describe in sufficient detail for you all the miraculous things that God has done over the past month as we try to share the Gospel, build a building, prepare printed materials, disciple converts, and work at being the mos [...]
Those of you who are reading this apparently survived my two-page letter last month. Rest assured, you will not be required to endure the same hardship this month. As a token of my gratitude for your perseverance and fortitude in the face o [...]
Well, you are about to be asked to endure something that I have never done before. As much as it pains me to do it and knowing the reaction that many will have to it, I must press on regardless. It is inevitable. That’s right; for the first [...]
