Please pray for Jaime Cano. He has served as our national president in Bolivia, on the national board, and as pastor of the Pampahasi church. After bringing assistance to families in need because of the COVID-19 crisis, he has apparently contracted it. At present, he i...
Why does God allow bad things to happen? In December of 1995 I struggled with that question. I cried many nights, waiting on the Lord to give me an answer that would make sense. But I never got one. Eventually, I accepted the circumstances, but it was not without troub...
When Director Mark Surbrook spoke with Pastor Samson by phone in June, he heard a cough. Pastor Samson admitted that he most likely had fought the coronavirus, later writing that he had experienced all the symptoms, but there is so little testing available in Haiti tha...
Bolivian National Pastors' Conference scheduled for October 2019 was cancelled due to Presidential elections that left the nation in a social/political tsunami! The election results were not accepted by the populace, so a new round of elections are scheduled for the s...
Subsistence farmers live in the high, isolated community of Platanal, Haiti. They till their small gardens with hoes and machetes. There is no electricity or running water.
In spite of these difficult circumstances, a vibrant congregation of over 250 members supports fo...
We just arrived home from our big Western Trip. We took off before any states had shut down in March, and over the next month watched things get cancelled and paused. We had hoped to visit at least six churches and many, many friends and partners. That obviously didn’t...
A cruise ship passenger from Italy being treated for heart problems turned out to be the Cayman Islands’ first coronavirus patient. The government set restrictions into place quickly.
The last church services held in the buildings in Cayman Brac were held on March 15....
When the year 2020 began, none of us suspected the careening detour it would take. Quarantines, curfews, social distancing. Who would have thought these kinds of words would become part of our everyday language?
Yet, even as we find our schedules cleared from many norma...
Where does the money go? This is a question that we all ask, and it’s very relevant in our situation with our monthly budget, and we want to be transparent.
The biggest chunk goes toward our ministry and living expenses (including taxes). Another large chunk goes toward...
