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Continue reading →: Support a Missionary!
I was talking with a dear friend this week and she related an interesting story to me. It is definitely food for thought. My friend shared that her pastor was praying about an electric bill that his church didn’t have the funds to pay. As he was reminding the Lord…
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Continue reading →: Forward Movement
Moving Ahead It’s a busy time in the Kingdom of God! Since our return from the States, we’ve shifted gears to adapt ourselves once again to Haitian life. It seems every day has its own busyness and there’s a steady stream of people entering or leaving our house for one…
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Continue reading →: Goodbye, Pattie
A few days ago, Prit and I received word that a dear friend of ours had slipped away from life during the early morning hours. After a progressive decline in her health and after fighting dementia, Pattie Simpson was now on the other side of the mysterious veil that separates…
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Continue reading →: Change the World
“Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?” What a question! Steve Jobs, CEO and owner of Apple Computer put this question bluntly to John Sculley, at the time the President of the…
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Continue reading →: Living in Limbo
Limbo (n.): a place or state of restraint or confinement Living in limbo is the best way I can think of to describe our tiny kitchen in its present state. It is so small that two people cannot stand side-by-side together, let alone try to work in the same space.…
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Continue reading →: Let It Rain, Let It Rain, Let It Rain!
Some of you must have taken my request to pray for rain to heart. I am happy to tell you that we have had two nights of beautiful rainfall. I can hear it pouring down outside as I type, a welcome relief from the exhausting heat we’ve been experiencing. Two…
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Continue reading →: Prayers All Around
My last post included a vital prayer request for rain. Yesterday morning, we looked outside and the rain was lightly falling. We were so excited, we ran outside only to discover it had already stopped. The light shower only lasted for 5 minutes! It didn’t take long for the merciless…
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Continue reading →: Waiting for the Rain
“They waited for me as for showers and drank in my words as the spring rain.” Job 29:23 One cold shower and two tall glasses of ice water later and I am finally beginning to cool down. I’ve changed into the paper-thin African robe that was a gift from a…
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Continue reading →: Taking Flight
By the time you read this post, we will have already taken flight (on Thursday) for Ft. Lauderdale. Early Friday morning, we will land in Cap-Haitian. Today, we are making last minute runs of buying food and other needed items that will fit into a suitcase, packing boxes to be…
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Continue reading →: That Makes Three
Sunday, (August 25), marked the three-year anniversary since Prit’s release from the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Canada, after suffering from back-to-back brain aneurysms. My mind traced back over the events of that crisis as I sat in the pew at Moncure Baptist Church Sunday morning and listened to my…
