In 2021, I launched a hospitality ministry to international students. At first, I had a new female student over every week. I would share my testimony and the Creation to Christ story. The interactions with each of the students were very positive, especially since most of them had little familiarity with the concept of God. …
As I looked outside my kitchen window in France, I asked myself, “How will we meet the neighbours? What doors will God open for us?” It’s been more challenging than I expected. Lives in France are firmly separated, with a high priority on privacy: work, family, recreation, education, and religion. These areas rarely overlap. My …
At the end of last year, some workers Esther had known in the Middle East came to visit us for the day. They mentioned a couple they knew who had recently set up an intercultural church nearby. We visited and very quickly felt at home, recognizing that the church would be an ideal place to …
For us a new battle was unfolding. We called it the Battle of Supplies. Banks were closing, paper currency was depleted, and there was a lack of supplies. There were months when we had very little to live on, but God provided in an amazing and humbling way. One day, I was coming from the …
I took in a young Ukrainian guy from Crimea who escaped the war. Because he is from Crimea, he’s under the control of the Russian government, which means he would be forced to join the Russian military. So, he escaped to the country where I live because he does not want to fight against his …
Overall, we are doing well. The fears of the unknown have lessened. We have many positive experiences here of people being kind to us. My husband was feeling a bit homesick around Christmas. He was also quite ill and our apartment very cold, which tends to make things seem worse. For myself I haven’t felt …
If we serve God reluctantly there will be very little progress. I learned this lesson from a reluctant horse many years ago in Upper Volta (Burkina Faso). I had just arrived in the country and had no means of getting out to the villages to evangelize, except to walk five or six kilometers. One day …
I’m so thankful to be back in Abbotsford–I made it just in time for the floods! My parents had previously moved out from Sumas prairie to Sumas mountain and sold the property to my brother. My parents still own the chicken farm and continue to work there as well as have a construction company office …
As the taxi stopped, I handed the driver the money, grabbed my bags and stepped out of the car. I walked towards a coffee shop I frequent to meet up with my ride home, but as I walked, I realized that my hand felt strangely empty. I did not have my phone. I searched my …
For two weeks straight, we received a steady stream of visitors in our thatch-roofed, open-air living room, enduring tearful farewells and doling out the possessions we had accumulated over a period of seven years. Surreally, it was now time to say goodbye. I found myself wondering what had been accomplished during our time in Cambodia …
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