In the midst of our craziness (our whirlwind mini-furlough tour before our departure to Lima), Alison, Cailyn and I were blessed to spend 10 days with our supporting congregation, the Fairlane Church of Christ, in Shelbyville, Tennessee. In some ways, I guess (it’s not as though I have tons of experience with furloughs being that [...]
Since our team survey trip to Lima in August 2006, numerous things have changed in Perú and among our team: Machu Picchu was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in July of 2007; a massive earthquake devastated the central coast of Peru on August 15, 2007; our team moved to Costa [...]
This is what our team has been experiencing since last Thursday, September 4th. Please be praying for the Fletchers. Stephanie scheduled an ultrasound last Thursday to check on the baby in her womb. She was almost 18 weeks pregnant and had an uneasy feeling that something was not right. To their [...]
Well… it seems that the time for us to leave this country is sneaking up on us rather quickly. Every time we turn around something is happening for the last time. For instance, today is Memorial Day. Happy Memorial Day! This is likely to be the last time we celebrate Memorial [...]
When I was in college I was required to take a course called Engineering Economics. This class, along with many others like Thermodynamics and Differential Equations, has proven quite useless in my new career as a missionary.
However, the economics of moving to another country… being paid in one currency and spending in another is [...]
Well, we have definitely been keeping busy with many different “team things”, and we do all want to keep everyone informed of our weekly activity. There are just a couple of problems with doing that, 1. most of our activities are really not “picture-taking-worthy” (i.e. meetings, meetings, and…meetings), which can make posts a bit [...]
So, as you know, a few weeks ago we spent the week with the A&M Church of Christ in College Station. We put together a video for them about our training here in wonderful Abilene. This video comes via John Mark (who did a great job making this video), it’s been up on [...]
After our week in College Station, we had a couple of days off for some much needed rest. To read more details on how the Missions week in CS ended up, go here. We are so thankful for our family at A&M C of C! Well, our training continues with Halbert and [...]
For the past week, our team has been in College Station, TX with the A&M Church of Christ. This wonderful church, which is dear to our team, has graciously decided to support our team during our year of training. As part of their new missions strategy, the A&M Church has allocated most of their missions [...]
The months leading up to this September have been filled with much anticipation. For months, we have been looking forward to the day when we would finally begin our training in Abilene. That day has come and gone, and we have been tremendously blessed by our first three weeks of training. Our days are filled [...]