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March 2016 Newsletter

​ Dear Friends and Family, Thank you for your prayers and support. We appreciate them very much! Denise and I are still enjoying our new life here in Macapá! We are both very excited to share some of the things that have been going on and that we have been learning. It has been a March 2016 Newsletter

Lost in the Light

Hello Faithful Friends and Supporters! I hope you are all doing well and enjoying a mild winter. Honestly, I would love to be cold right now—not freezing—but cold sounds great. I would wear a scarf and a sweater and curl up my hands in the sleeves and drink hot tea. I would watch the early Lost in the Light

Cristoval 2016 Pacaja

Cyndi and I had the privilege of traveling to Pacaja on Monday to teach at their Cristoval ( a retreat that the Church hás during Carnival so that families can get away and do fun things together instead of being in their neighbourhoods with a lot of ‘binge partying’). I spoke  3 times in 2 Cristoval 2016 Pacaja

January 2016 Newsletter

​ Dear Friends and Family, Thank you for your prayers and support. They have been greatly appreciated. Denise and I have been in Macapá for almost 3 months now. Living here has been a completely different experience than our time in Altamira. For one thing, in Altamira we had a huge safety net of other January 2016 Newsletter

Welcome to the New Year

Hello Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. I must admit, seeing pictures of my family gathered around the cozy living room opening presents made me a little homesick. Something about being in 90 degree weather makes it hard to get into the Christmas spirit. It’s just not the same. Welcome to the New Year

November Amazon Update! Steve and Elba

At the church we just recently had a community wedding with 6 couples getting married.  It was a BIG deal and a great testimony to a culture that does not place much value in the sanctity of marriage.  The even more incredible thing is that 3 of the couples live in a remote community called November Amazon Update! Steve and Elba

November 2015 Newsletter

​ Dear Family and Friends, Denise and I are finally here in Macapá! As you probably remember, we moved to by river barge about 300 miles from our home in Altamira. We are in the process of getting settled into our new home and into our new ministry. We couldn’t be any more excited to November 2015 Newsletter