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God Is Faithful
We often tell our kids that the greatest indicator for God’s faithfulness in the future is his faithfulness in the past. This is a message us grownups need to hear often, too, and in the last couple of months we have seen God’s repeated faithfulness to our family.
Continue ReadingBecause of Partnerships
How many of you enjoy writing and submitting reports? If we were to take a survey, our guess is that the majority response would not be very enthusiastic. The months of December and January are busy reporting months in our partnership with the Cameroon Baptist Convention.
Continue ReadingLots of Snow, but Not in Alberta
Greetings from sunny Alberta – I can’t say snowy Alberta because we don’t have any snow here in southern Alberta. We are getting settled into our rental home in Red Cliff near our son and his family. Vern is busy being chore boy. He and Tuske (our Hungarian dog) love hanging out with the cows!
Continue ReadingThe Liminal Space of Home Assignment
I love autumn! I love the colors. I love the smells. I love the tastes. I love Thanksgiving. I love the imagery of the trees letting go of the past year’s leaves and settling in for a ‘down’ time before the next year’s growth.
Continue ReadingWhen Events Come Full Circle
Every two to three months during the year it has been a privilege to take a senior resident to my former place of work: Banso Baptist Hospital (BBH). We have found this to be a productive time – a week during which the resident can take charge of teaching house officers.
Continue ReadingThe Just-a-Seck Newsletter – Spring 2022
Greetings to you from Phoenix, Arizona, where Jeannie and I are spending the winter in the US. This newsletter is a tale of Four Fronts where our Community Health Evangelism (CHE) ministry has been thriving over the last three months.
Continue ReadingMore about Hungary and Serbia
One of the prayer requests that’s mentioned above has to do with my Assistant Field Director role in Hungary and Serbia, so I thought maybe I’d share a bit more about ministry in those two countries and the supporting role I currently have and have had with Gateway in this region.
Continue ReadingShan in Japan: Spring 2022
Christmas is a wonderful time of year, not only because of the lights and gatherings but also because it is one of the best times to share about the love of God our Father and the birth of our Savior Jesus.
Continue ReadingMore Than Conquerors through Chr*st Who Loves Us
As the COVID “zero-tolerance” policy has been embraced in here since the beginning of pandemic, large group gatherings, no matter private or public, are strictly restricted amid the current wave of Omicron’s spread.
Continue ReadingYear-End Blessings and New Year Hopes
God was very faithful in granting opportunities to share the real meaning of Christmas and sow seeds of the Gospel at the end of the 2021 year. I was intent on “connecting” with people this Christmas as the COVID cases were quite low.
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