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Give, Pray, Fast

Dear Friends, The most important words in your Bible are the ones Jesus spoke.  Yet it is interesting how His words are routinely disregarded by many who profess to be His followers!  The words of the Master in...

Kyrgyzstan

Dear Friends, No doubt many of you have followed the news reports from Kyrgyzstan over the past couple of weeks.   Interim President, Rosa Otunbayeva has said that the death toll is more than 2,000.   Some 100,000...

True Kingdom Economics

Friends. The stock markets are dropping amid worry of default on national debts.  We read the headlines and we also receive letters (like the one below) and struggle with how to adequately respond to our friends....

Pray! Answered prayer!

As most of you know, Kyrgyzstan has had a change of government after opposition protesters were shot at by troops and police using live ammunition.  The opposition fought back and police are among the 100 dead and the many...

Yeah God Stuff!

Hello Friends.  Marilyn and I are enjoying Europe and sharing times with our friends here.  If any of you want to follow us on Face Book that would be fun!  We continue to be amazed at the buzz "The Luke 10...

The Luke 10 Manual

We are waiting through a five hour snow delay for our flight to leave Toronto for Amsterdam and looking forward to all that God is doing this season in Europe and Central Asia.  Marilyn will be focused on sharing time...

Break Through- Prophetic Word for 2010?

A word that I have been sent every year has been "break through" and 2010 is no exception-   big bold print, "2010, THE YEAR OF BREAK THROUGH".  For some reason it was a really popular word in 1982,...

Why we do what we do? (Christmas 2009)

Hello Friends

This is the best Christmas present that we could have possibly received!

This is why we do what we do.

May the miracle of Incarnation that we celebrate continue through us all!

May it continue through Gulnara...

Wild Ride!

Tajikistan is  a wild and wonderful country with China to the East, Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west and Krygystan to the north.  One of the main north/south roads in the country goes over two 3,000...

Knowing and Being Known

Hello Friends. Recently I read an excellent article on the five ministry gifts of Ephesians 4:11 and began to ask why years of such teaching has produced so little fruit.  At  times there even seems to be an...

Into the Kingdom

Hello Friends.  Below is a fine example of a Russian Orthodox wooden building from the early part of the twentieth century when the Russians first came to Central Asia and began to build permanent houses and towns.  ...

Focus on Tajikistan

Marilyn and I had a great time with our friends in Central Asia over the first part of July.  The water melons were wonderful,  the shashlik was  amazing and the fellowship rich.  

The stories  from...

The Man of Peace

Friends, we have had several conversations recently about finding a person of peace in western culture.  The context of Luke 10 is clearly eastern where three generations and families of several siblings plus servants could...

The Wilderness

Friends, some thoughts sit in my draft file for extended periods of time before being sent out.  This little piece has been sitting in draft for a while and we thought it might be an encouragement to some.  If you...

The Greatest Prophet?

Who is the greatest prophet?

Would that be Ezekiel due to the intensity of his visions?  Would that be Isaiah due to the accuracy of his revelation of Jesus?  Would that be Daniel due to his wisdom and ability to...