Last night about 40 people from our church hosted a play in a local park to share the gospel with neighbors of the new church plant. We were praying for 50 people to attend the event… God, once again, surpassed our expectations. More than 100 peopled gathered to watch the play and hear the gospel, [...]
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Katie turns 7
Today is Katie’s birthday!! I am so proud of my little princess, and I love her with all my heart! We’re having a party tomorrow to celebrate with some of her friends. I’ll post pictures later… Earlier this week I posted about our 8th wedding anniversary; so you can see we didn’t wait long to start [...]
Life Changer
Seventeen years ago this week my life was completely shaken! At 11 years of age, my mother went to meet her Savior face to face. So many memories from that week still flood my mind. I still often wonder why… I know what Romans 8:28 says, and I completely trust in God’s plan. He gives, [...]
Incredible numbers
Think about this: our family lives and serves in Santiago, Chile a city of over 6,000,000 people. To effectively reach the city, we need a local church for every 50,000 people. Using this ratio, we need to plant 120 local churches in the city! Wow, that’s a huge undertaking! According to that same formula, we [...]
Guns and church
I just saw a report about a local supermarket near our church that was held at gunpoint up for 20 minutes last night. Just an hour before, a young man was shot in the stomach just a few blocks from our church. These tragic reports have become the usual headlines of the evening Santiago news… Although [...]
More posts
I know many of you have been praying with us about some of the special projects going on in Chile. I’ve not posted many updates on the blog in the last couple of weeks, but over the next few days I’ll be updating you about how God continues to bless. If you would like daily [...]
Another reason to train leaders!
This Sunday I missed my first service, in the 4 1/2 years we have been in Chile, because of sickness. I’ve been fighting a mycobacterial lung infection for a couple of weeks, and Sunday I thought I would just “push through” with my preaching commitments. As I was preaching our first service at 9:45, I [...]
100 until we start the mission
We only have 100 hours until our first service in the new mission! This morning I joined our team in the area visiting neighbors and handing out flyers. Be praying God will touch hearts and several from the community will be in the first service!
Have you registered for the Our Generation Summit ’10?
The OG Summit ’10 is a missions-centered winter retreat designed for people who want to be more involved in global outreach. This event is held at the Music Road Hotel in the Smokey Mountains of Pigeon Forge, TN. Pastors and missionaries, teachers and students, businessmen and families join for three days to address the needs of [...]
