Today, if the Lord tarries, I will attend the “home going” service of an old friend and IMB colleague, Gayle Hill. In the years of my missionary service (and way before that) she was often called Mamma Gayle by Romanians and Americans who worked with her on mission trips to the area around Braila, RO….
Yep… I must be getting old, for sure. As I type this, it is December 4th, 2023 and Christmas is coming at me like a run-a-way freight train! Lord help! Wasn’t it January 2023 just a few days ago? How’s that for an old guy’s setup to a blog post about the topic of Christmas???…
It has been a very long time since I was impacted by a movie like I was tonight. Dawn and I went to see the movie about human trafficking called “Sound of Freedom.” The movie focused on the more insidious form of that evil… child trafficking. The movie is, and should be, an eye opener…
As you get older, you start to consider what your legacy might be. Has the story of your life amounted to much? Have you left footprints deep enough to follow after you go home to your eternal reward (or curse)? Will anyone even remember your name? These questions seem to creep into your mind more…
In 2009, Dawn and I moved to Romania to start our full-time missionary service with IMB. I could write volumes about that one event and how it came to be a reality. However, This post is about a vivid memory that came to mind a few weeks ago when I stumbled upon a beautiful drone…
It is Christmas Eve as I start writing this, around 11:55am, and I begin the process of attempting to put feelings into words on a digital piece of paper. This year as in many others, the business of life, ministry, and annoying health issues (actually, this part is new) have made me say more than…
December 10th, 2022 was Dawn and my 40th Wedding Anniversary. We have been down many roads together, near and far. We have experienced life in unique and unusual ways. We have honored our marriage covenant through the good times and the less than good times 🙂 We brought two children into the world and raised…
My friend and brother in Christ, Don Hale, left this troubled world on November 5th, 2022. I am confident that he is now smiling and singing in a new, glorious world that is often referred to as the New Jerusalem. Heaven, if you will. At Don’s “Celebration of Life” service last evening, I heard many…
It happened again the other morning while I was out prayerwaking. I took the first few steps down the street and I heard the sound of a dog barking in the distance. Instantly, I was taken back to a certain morning in Bucharest, Romania. I was standing on a small balcony in the cool of…