Greetings from Tanzania! This is our first prayer letter of 2018. Can you believe it is 2018?!. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we arrived here full-time back in 2013. God sure has been good to us. Our Christmas service was wonderful. We [...]
Abbie, AnnaBeth, and I have had our first holiday season on the mission field, and we have been so blessed! I know many missionaries find the holidays to be emotionally difficult, so I wondered how we would handle these major holidays witho [...]
This was our second year to have Bible English Camp. What an amazing week with over 70 campers! This year the Lord provided us with beautiful campground facilities to use. The campers ranged in age from 5-19 and enjoyed days filled with Bib [...]
Wow! What a year 2017 has been! Praise the Lord for His unending goodness and supply! Thank you to so many of you for being in the chain of provision and for your prayers on our behalf. We hope that you had a Merry Christmas and are enjoyin [...]
I hope some of you were able to enjoy a properly white Christmas . . . or at least a cold one. It has been a few years now, but Christmas still feels “odd” to us here in the Southern Hemisphere. The days are the longest of the year, our tem [...]
As we close out the year 2017 and begin afresh the new year 2018, I’m reminded of the many times God has done great things for us; I trust you have this sweet reminiscing in your hearts and minds as well. The year 2017 was a year of long tr [...]
In the last two months, we have had the pleasure of visiting several new churches. Some of these were in our hometown, while others were several hours away. Since we have been out on the road, God has provided above and beyond all we could [...]
These past months have been very busy for Jolie and me, as we have traveled three times. First, we needed to go to the United States for a physical checkup for both of us. The doctor gave us both a good report and said we could return to Po [...]
It has become a tradition at our church to have a big day on the first Sunday of December each year. It is a day of thanksgiving, where everything is centered around reflecting on and giving God thanks for what He has done over the past yea [...]
First Baptist Church has been my home church since 1980. Many times our pastor, Brother Jack Hyles, would say that the longer he was in the Lord’s work, the more coupons he would clip, meaning the lives that he had influenced. In November w [...]
