We rolled up the legs on our trousers and jumped into the wild, warm surf as our little speedboat tugged against its anchor in the rising tide. Before us was a mesmerizingly beautiful beach, drawing, it seemed, all things toward itself. As our team waded through the water with baggage and provisions atop our heads, stumbling in the thick, powdery sand, we felt like explorers in a new land.
January 1st, my birthday. In the cool, dark, early morning hours of the new year, I stood in my backyard with a good friend and turned a telescope toward the eastern sky. Saturn was rising, a bright dot in the arc of the ecliptic, preceding the sun by only a couple of hours. Ted and [...]
Dear family and friends, Well, we’ve been back at it for a couple of months now. Coming home to Nairobi was not much of an adjustment after the short furlough, but in some ways, we feel like new missionaries again. As you know, we returned to work with AIM’s media team full time. And I [...]
(I recently returned from a 12-day trip to Madagascar with our media crew. View Photos for this Travelog here.) Madagascar is sometimes called the “Eighth Continent” for its unique diversity of people, plants, and animals. Indeed, it was the most “out of Africa” I have felt in Africa. We landed in the capital city, Antananarivo, [...]
This furlough, our family took a detour through stunning western Wyoming. We camped for 5 days in Yellowstone park – just long enough to get a taste of this wonderful place, and to know that I’ll need to return one day with a backcountry pack and an open agenda. You can view the photos in [...]
Leaving Rockford Illinois on the way through Normal and then on to friends in Indianapolis, I began to reflect on all the places we’ve seen in recent weeks and months. From Kenya to France to a place that feels a little like home in New Jersey. We packed the little white Volkswagon to the gills [...]
“The essence of the Christian life is trust.” “Trust is our gift back to God, and He finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for the love of it.” “Unwavering trust is such a rare and priceless treasure because it often demands a degree of courage that borders on the heroic.” “At the age of [...]