Missionary newsletters
When it rains, it pours, but when the rains stop in the dry season, they STOP. We can go months and months and never see a drop of rain. Once-rushing streams dry up. Green grasses, so lush and full of life turn brown and crispy, inedible to livestock. The earth dries up, it is [...]
We are preparing every day for the time when we can meet immediate needs in the Philippines through aviation. After months of waiting, the plane is finally shipped to the Philippines! The Lord has been working it through customs and the container that contains the plane will soon be sitting at the Adventist World [...]
Training is key for survival in harsh conditions. That is why Linda and I take advantage of what training we can for living in this area. Recently, FEMA had a special training event for Disaster Mass Care operations. It was held in Palmer, Alaska, which is North East of Anchorage and is part of [...]
Bruce and I have moved many times in our life. This time, it is different. How can we say goodbye to a community or a village we have been a part of for over four years? We have made this community in Guyana our home. The people have become our friends, our neighbors, and [...]
You prayed for us. Some of you said goodbye to us, and some of you even came and ministered to us as you packed us up and sent us on our way to North Carolina. We arrived, and through the storm of transition, you were right there to flood us with your prayers for [...]
The last five weeks have been a whirlwind, but we know God is in control. Our original plan was to complete our AWA commitment which ends on May 31, 2020. Then on June 21, 2019, Ric Swaningson, AWA’s president, asked Bruce to take on the AWA Philippines Project, and Monique to remain as the [...]
We would like to share the continuation from last month about our move across North America to work with AWA! Tears had been a familiar part of the whole day on Sunday, July 7th. The chapter of our lives in Oregon, our birth place, was closing. The tears did not fully hit until driving [...]
In Alaska, at these high latitudes, summer is short, beautiful, and intensive. In what is called “the interior” of the state at our base in Fairbanks Alaska, this summer has been exceedingly warm and sunny with high temperatures in the 70s, and a few days reaching into the low 80s. The significant downside has [...]
We have enjoyed meeting some of you over the past few months as we have been attending various promotional events for AWA. My family and I just returned from ASI (Adventist-laymen’s Services & Industries) and are recuperating from the hustle and bustle. There were so many different agencies there, but me and my family [...]
The sounds of carpentry drifted through the trees, mingling with Tagalog voices. The voices were sounds of men quickly working together to put the roof on the new church. The departure of Laura and the LaBore children was coming the following week, and we wanted very much to have the roof completed before they [...]
