Journal
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San Pedro Del Norte, Nicaragua Part II
After our time of preparation Lupe and Sammy took a dugout canoe with an outboard motor three hours downriver to another town where several pastors and lay workers were gathering for a training conference. There is very little opportunity for the training of pastors in this area, so the teaching of...
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San Pedro Del Norte Nicaragua Part I
Trips to Mexico or Nicaragua with Sammy are adventures in the true sense of the word; the work and the outcome is never clear ahead of time. He is pretty certain of the work he will be doing, that is training pastors and lay-workers, but the work of his companeros he...
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Man Plans His Ways but God Directs His Steps
Proverbs 16:9 Three years ago Dana and I decided that it was time to end our jewelry careers. We sold our workshop, office, and retail store and moved the workshop into an old house on our place in the country. Our plan was to continue making BSF jewelry for...
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Bottom of the Purse Candy
“Bottom of the purse candy.” When I heard it I knew exactly what it was and I laughed out loud. During the school year I drive the church van to the middle school to pick up eight 6th and 7th graders for “Transform,” the after school mentoring program sponsored by...
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All Men are like Grass
When the election is over in November and we have a new president, some of the people of the United States will be happy, some will be angry, disillusioned, and discouraged, and others will be indifferent. Presidents come and go, like the kings of Judah and Israel, some are good...
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Tula Prison Mexico Mission
In the southern part of the state of Tamaulipas Mexico is the village of Tula; maybe it is more than a village, more like a small town. It is a quiet place; very clean, and the times I have visited it the weather has been cool; the air clean and...