Harvest Now

News from Tajikistan

Peace be to you and blessings!

The Lord is blessing us as the President made a decree where the ID documents\passports are to be given without any obstacles to the orphans and orphanage graduates.  We started compiling...

The Resources are in the Harvest!

​​Last month we spent some time in Kazakhstan to share with our friends there and to see what God is doing among them.  It was good to share this journey with Cees Bakker from the Netherlands and with Alexandr Goshin from...

A Christmas Meditation or Rant?

Friends, In a galaxy far away and a time long ago I might have enjoyed theological/biblical debate and in this galaxy and in this time I continue to value clear thinking but my face book feed is making me cranky....

My Name is A

Uncut from Tajikistan

"My name is A. I was born in a good family. Finished musical school and all was well until I met a guy. At first I didn’t realize he was on heroine, then I learned and almost broke up but he offered me...

My Name is G

My name is G, I was born in a village. I am 18.  I had a good life while Mom was alive, but when she died and Dad took another woman, she didnt like me and constantly insulted me. There was another woman in the village who...

Speak only Good!

Hello Friends, Some time ago I came across a Face Book post admonishing all to speak only positive things.  It stuck with me since there are a lot of negative, bash this and bash that posts and it is often easier to...

Unto the Least of These!

Friends, about 5:30 one morning I was gazing over the packed departure lounge of Dushanbe International while waiting to board my flight to leave Tajikistan.  Any westerners tend to stick out and that morning was no...

Doing the stuff!

"Billions of dollars have been wasted in constructing and maintaining unscriptural church buildings, in glitzy, manipulative media evangelism and dishing out toothless paper degrees.  None of these tags provide entry...

Better for You!

Friends, institutional Christendom is bound to sermonizing and weak because of it.  Preaching is an excellent means of drawing a crowd and becoming a celebrity but the poorest means of  effecting change.  People...

Tajikistan in your heart!

Friends, As some of you will remember, we began to partner with Jacqueline and her charity, Home of Change, in serving women at risk in Tajikistan. We take this opportunity to congratulate Jacqueline & her team on being...

Good Story!

Dear Steve, I  wanted to let you know how much your Luke 10 Manual has completely screwed us up. It is a dangerous little book, like a suitcase nuke that unexpectedly and completely wiped out our comfortable version...

A Meditation on David Cho & Viktor Yanukovitch

Dear Friends, Some of you will wonder why David Cho, former pastor of what was often noted as being the world's largest church in Seoul, Korea and Victor Yanukovitch, former president of Ukraine, are linked in this piece....

Walking Where Jesus Walked

Friends, recently a friend from the majority world asked me for help to make a trip to Israel.  He had sold his motor cycle and pawned his wife's wedding ring but was still $1700 short of the $3,000 he needed for the trip....

Why we do what we do!

Hello Friends, Below is a short note from friends in Kazakhstan who work in the south of the country in the city of Chymkent.  This snap shot of what they are doing is why we do what we do and why we ask you to help us...

Questions from Acts-1

Friends, many of you can identify with my journey of beginning to question and then discard  firmly held convictions (mostly about how to do church).  Too many "Biblical principles" turned out to be cultural...