I love Christmas. I love singing Christmas songs. According to my Philippine background, I celebrate Christmas in all the “ber” months! So from SeptemBER to DecemBER I celebrate! I have about 20 CD’s of Christmas music which I play nearly non-stop, and yes I do d
Merry Christmas from Cambodia! This was a great year for us in Cambodia and the region where we work. Our team of leaders planted as many as 300 churches in Cambodia alone and helped many other leaders as well including the Philippines and Ethiopia as well. This year I trained pasto
Pastor Binar started in 2012 with a lot of hope. He was a rural pastor in Mindanao who never had a chance to receive a Bible School education, but he has done his best with the church he started. He had little formal education and lived in the mountains far from any urban Bible school
On Tuesday, December 4 at about 3 o’clock in the morning Typhoon Bopha, called “Pablo” in the Philippines, hit Eastern Mindanao island in the Philippines. When the eye slammed into the rugged east coast of Mindanao it was a Category 5 storm, simply called a “S
Today I had a revelation. I was working all day long on a backhoe. This is a special backhoe. I think you can call it a “missionary” backhoe. I have had it now for about 4 or 5 years. My backhoe was born in 1973, two years after me! I have another one from 1967 but I
How important is culture? Culture determines how you live your life. It determines the way you do church. It determines the way you work at your job or business. It determines the way you think and what you believe. Culture affects not only what you believe about God, but the arc
I have read about famous and great missionaries my whole life. I have met many amazing missionaries in my life as well. William Carey’s impact over two hundred years ago in India birthed the missions movement we have today. India even has a national holiday for William Carey. I
For nearly three years we have been working on solutions for flooding in Poipet. We have helped schools, communities and people all across Poipet get out of the annual floods which devastated the city. Long gone are massive floods which inundate the whole city, but there are still p
Our day started early. Craig and Holly, from Australia on sabbatical from Stairway Church, are helping us with the new church plant. Their day started the earliest. Their cute baby girl started vomiting in the night. It was a long night for them. Added to that, it rained all nigh
Twelve hours from now, we are launching a new church in Poipet, Cambodia. The church is focused on children and demonstrating the love of Christ. This last week has been a challenge, but it is one I have clearly seen before. It is satan’s attempt to discourage me or cause me to quit