Dear Friends and Family, This is probably be the last email that you will receive from me for a few days as we leave for Goma, DRC very early tomorrow morning. We will take a boat on Lake Kivu from Bukavu to Goma. On Saturday we will cross the border to Gisenyi, Rwanda where we [...]

Dear Family and Friends, Here are some random observations from the boys and myself about our trip: “Glow in the Dark Jesus” Our first night in Rwanda Jimmie said he wanted to show me something in his room. I expected him to show me a nasty bug or spider, but instead he turned off the [...]

Dear Family and Friends, I’m sorry that it’s been several days since my last update. Celestin had to travel to Kigali to interview for a Visa to the U.S. for the Church of the Nazarene’s upcoming General Assembly in Orlando. With him being gone I’ve been without email access. Every four years the COTN has [...]

Hello again! The boys are really doing great. I’m very proud of them both. It’s not easy at all traveling straight to Congo for your first trip to Africa. It’s like they jumped from grade school straight to graduate school. When I traveled to teach at Africa Nazarene University for the first time in 2001, [...]

Dear Family and Friends, Tomorrow will make one week that my son, Jimmie, and his friend, Chuck Ward, and I have been in Africa. It always takes a while to get unjetlagged, write a few things down, and then get access to a computer. Hopefully I’ll be able to send out updates more regularly now. [...]

Follow me on my twitter feed right here on my blog as Jimmie, Chuck, and I travel to Africa. Go to the Africa 2009 Twitter Feed page.

Read a wonderful story about how we all can change the lives of a family through faith and contributions.  Veronique is a mother of eleven children and her life has been forever changed.  Click here to open up a PDF file and read this amazing story.

Hot off the press is a link to all of the emails I sent while on my recent trip to Africa.  You can click on the link under the Blogroll or by clicking here.  You can view and print out the whole document in PDF format.

Dear Friends, I want to share with you a story of one child changing the world for another child on the other side of the world. Changing the World with Dog Biscuits and Goats Eight-year-old Brynn (pronounced “Brin”) had saved up for months to buy something special for herself. Brynn worked hard for her money, [...]

Jesus:  “The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed . . . Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.” –Matthew 13:31-32 Dear Friend, In [...]