Dear friends and faithful ministry partners,

Greetings in the name of our sweet Lord, Jesus Christ.  As you read this newsletter, I trust you are well. I just finished my Intercultural and Language Acquisition Training in North Carolina.  I am so glad that’s done! I arrived Montana…

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! We know that Thanksgiving will look different for most of us this year. And yet we hope that you can still find ways …

In this season of thanksgiving, we are so grateful for your faithful prayers and generous support of God’s mission and IM global servants. Thank you for being such faithful partners …

“I thank my God every time I remember you.  In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from …

I heard a compelling sermon this morning tracing the journey of the people of God through the wilderness of Sinai.  It was based on this text from Numbers 9. Numbers …

“There is a close relationship between endurance and gratitude, for the strength to endure suffering comes from gratitude… In order to endure well, we need the power of acceptance. No one enjoys suffering. However, if the suffering is somehow embraced, then it can become a precious treasure… It is gratitude that can transform our sufferings into blessings. Sufferings invite pain, but if we befriend the sufferings and consider them learning opportunities, they lose their power in our lives and can result in a thing of beauty.”