To Thailand to Teach

It has been more than 15 years, since I first began to ask Dewayne Liebrandt to come to Colombia and help us start a deaf ministry. It has been nearly seven years since he made his first trip. For si...

Work Crew for February 2013

After a long week of frenetic activity, the last two members of the work crew took off this morning and are now flying back home to their families. Now, I can sit back, sip a cup of coffee, and do al...

Teaching as Missionary Ministry

With the holiday season over I am now making my plans to return to Colombia in about ten days. It has been a great fall and winter as I have had the opportunity to visit many of our supporting church...

Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year

My semester at KCU is now over. I am back at home in Rittman where Jeanie and I are planning a Christmas trip to visit Susy and Brian at their new home in Maine. I have about three more weeks before...

Merry Christmas to all of You!

As I finished up here at KCU and we move into the Christmas season, I have reflected back on this fall. Today I taught my very last class here this fall semester. This is my third time teaching here...

A Busy Fall, a Big Blessing

The fall is passing quickly and my semester of teaching as Missionary-in-Residence here at KCU is rapidly drawing to a close. I am making sure I can cover all of my material in the time and have left...

A Busy Week

This week has been a busy one. Each day I have arrived at the school to find a long list of students I needed to work with. I would arrive and almost immediately they would bring in the first studen...

Camp Expansion and the Colombian Church

The camp expansion has been a joint project with the Colombian church from the beginning. Some ten years ago, the church in Villavicencio purchased the original camp property. At that time, they cou...