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 [...]
Family News
Not home yet
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 [...]
Two years and two weeks
Returning to your home country after a couple years away – some things you (re)discover the first couple weeks back… New Jersey has a certain charm. It’s a wise-guy, how-you-doin?, swagger kind of charm. And there’s a part of me deep down that really loves it (much to the the concern of my dear wife). [...]
Looking back
Today I had my “end-of-term review.” This may sound ominous but it is in fact just another formality in our missionary life. Missionaries generally come and go to the field in “terms” – kind of like deployments. A term is typically two to four years, after which you are supposed to return to your home [...]
Newsletter – November 2010
Dear friends, This is a letter about change, and how we are sometimes slow to recognize God’s hand in it. This is also a letter about being thankful, which I hope we are less blind to. Our newsletter is long overdue, but perhaps you will understand why once you’ve read it. Today is my last [...]
"reserection" sunday
I discovered this Post-it note in the back of one of dad’s bibles shortly after he died. When I found it, I recognized it at once as a sort of treasure—something special because it is written in his hand, and even contains one of his telltale, and humorous, spelling errors. At the end of verse [...]
newsletter – december 2009
News since April Dear Friends, It’s been 9 months now since we’ve been back in Africa. Returning after our extended stay in New York last year felt a little like starting over again. But it also felt like coming home. I laugh at myself sometimes, creeping along in the Nairobi traffic following a typical day [...]