Every two years, the alternating winter and summer olympics bring a mixed bag of emotions to the viewers.  We sit in front of our TVs and alternate between jubilant shouts for the victors and heartbreak tears for the losers.  Faces of Olympic contenders are caught on camera – faces marked by uncontrolled  celebration and others…

I was traveling recently, working with mission teams at some churches in another part of the country.  One of my favorite things about my ministry focus is how many amazing people I meet both stateside and in Europe.  I consistently sit in meetings in board rooms or around dinner tables where I enjoy conversation with…

WOW.  If there was ever a time this verse takes on its full meaning, “Pray without ceasing,” it’s during retirement.  As kids and teens, lives are so busy with school and activities, we can barely get a dinner prayer whispered.  As young married couples with growing families, we are so busy with work and family,…

Exciting, isn’t it?  Looking down the road of retirement and envisioning all the freedom to do just as one pleases.  Imagining the trips, the outings, the relaxed mornings over coffee – we have a lot to celebrate as we enter this season of life.  I don’t know anyone who would turn down weeks on end…

The thought first struck me while we were living in Africa, Uganda to be precise. Rather late in our professional careers, we had gone there, under a rather “impossible to refuse” calling by God, to build an elementary school in a small village. I was living out a decades long dream to be a missionary…