It has finally happened. We are now fully funded and on June 16th, we will board the plane for Kenya. Things have gotten very hectic. We received the formal news on April 14th and became Church of God Ministries employees on May 1st. My last day at Christian Women Connection™ (formerly Women of [...]
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Departing June 16th 
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As a missionary, over the past 18 months, my family and I have visited numerous churches to acquaint people with our ministry and missions in general. During these visits, people often ask, “I feel that God may be calling me to the mission field, but I am not sure what it will look like. How [...] The HEART program (Hunger Education and Resource Training) is a unique facility, located in central Florida, with the primary goal of preparing missionaries and community development workers for service in the third-world. The training takes place in the midst of a simulated third-world village where the students live and work as if they were living in the third-world. As you know from my last post, my family and I are currently attending pre-field training at Mission Training International in Palmer Lake, CO. This week we have been attending our final week of the PILAT (Program in Language Acquisition Techniques) program. During this week we have been learning about how to choose a language [...] Over the next several weeks (5 to be exact), my family and I are attending two training sessions that will help prepare us for the mission field. The first is a two week program called PILAT – Program in Language Acquistion Techniques. This is program not aimed at learning a specific language. Instead, it focuses [...] For many people, the invention of glasses and contacts are both a blessing and the curse. They are blessing, in that they can be used to easily correct a wide variety of vision problems. They are a curse because they can become a nuisance to deal with every day of your life. One of the [...] Ever since I was in college at Purdue, I have been interested in missions. God started giving a me vision for what He is doing around the world at Mandate ‘86 missions conference at Northern Illinois University. The main speaker was George Verwer, founder of Operation Mobilization. While I do not remember what he preached [...] One of the most exciting days of our lives occurred on June 25, 2008. During the last evening service of the 2008 North American Convention of the Church of God, our family was formally commissioned as missionaries to Kenya. That evening we stood before the entire assembly, including those watching via the internet, voiced our [...] |
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