Four months after the start of the thing we are now calling CoVID-19,* I find myself wadding through the future of what is to be of my ministry. The very pro...

Loneliness loomed over me like a heavy blanket. We knew we would be moving to a new country without a team of other missionaries. For the most part, Joel and...

Steps to get us back to Colombia: Cancel your current giving/donation with TEAM. Contact: donors@team.org There are two different ways to accomplish the canc...

These are the questions I hear as I share my heart in talking about what God has brought us thousands of miles away to Colombia and more spe

The two blocks to the large Centro Comercial (shopping mall) are not far, but walking anywhere in 93% humidity will cause an instant sweat. I stroll up the s...

Every place I have lived has its fair share of pretty things. Items, places, experiences that feel luxurious. While gazing upon them or lavishing in them you...

The streets are packed with cars, buses, pedestrians crossing, delivery bikes and motorcycles. Getting home from orchestra classes on a week

As we prepare for the 1st Home Assignment (furlough) I am left with a growing set of odd feelings. We haven’t experienced this process yet.

All non-profits, religious organizations and even us missionaries focus on the "end of the year giving" as a very important time...

The world is so interconnected today that even though we live over 1,000 miles away from home, loved ones and our ministry partners there...

The light begins to seep into the room around 5:30… The expanse of windows are made private by the large palm trees in our front yard. If you look carefully ...

One year…. Two seasons…. Mango season, and non-mango season. The first morning when I stepped out of our AirBnB and onto the street, I walked 2 feet and star...

Church planting in the United States is not for the faint of heart. Add in a 2nd culture and you can forget the faint of heart... Difficult is an understatem...

Cathedrals, churches and plazas will be crammed with congregations in Colombia for Holy Week, or 'Semana Santa' in Spanish; for a lot of people in Colombia a...

I feel the sweat beading down my back as I rush around. Did I remember to put the ice cubes on the table? Do we have enough chairs? Yes. Maybe I can grab a f...

A lifeguard. A maid. An architect student. A real estate agent. A computer programmer. A young mom. The Arab restaurant waitress. Available. What does that l...

A lifeguard. A maid. An architect student. A real estate agent. A computer programmer. A young mom. The Arab restaurant waitress. Our lives begin to weave a ...

There is a reason for the word teammates being in quotation marks, I promise. Keep reading! We will get there. Our Colombian counterparts are special. Specia...

No we aren't experts, we aren't even rookies yet. But life is unique here. I am sure any missionary can say that about the country they have been called. I ...

What you are going to read below is from a guy we did language school with in Costa Rica and loved its context and application. As we have transitioned to fu...