After a wonderful Christmas time with our family, and what seemed like endless days of packing all the Christmas presents we weren’t supposed to get, the day came for us to leave. My mother drove up to Florida and our pastor met us at the airport to join our sending off team. There were prayers… Continue reading The First Days
“We can’t wait to go, but it’s so hard to leave” A retired missionary said that to a new missionary, one about to leave for the field, at a training event. At the time it didn’t quite sink in, but it has been coming up in my mind a lot lately. We have three weeks left, or… Continue reading We can’t wait to go, But it’s so hard to leave
I think I’m going to coin a new term for pre-field itinerant missionaries, domestic nomads. As we were driving back from a missions conference, Chris looked over at me and said that there is always something a little off about us missionaries. He said that it’s hard to relate sometimes, to share with people what… Continue reading Domestic Nomads
I started reading 1 Samuel a couple of days ago, and so this morning I was in chapters 4-7. The Israelites are living in idolatry and immorality, evidenced by the corrupt priests, and so when they go out to war against the Philistines, they lose, badly. The solution, they suppose, is to go and grab… Continue reading Faith or testing?
We recently had a Sunday School lesson on Missions, and missionaries, and for a few minutes we talked about the stereotypes that come to mind when we talk about missions. We also talked about why missionaries do missions. At that time the thought, ‘because they are crazy’ was the one that came to the forefront of my… Continue reading Crazy/Not Crazy?
For two years, when folks have asked us where in France we’ll be moving, our answer was Toulouse eventually, but Albertville first. Why Albertville? Language school. Specifically, a Christian language school that specializes in teaching missionaries working in French speaking countries how to speak French. This school came highly recommended to us by a number… Continue reading Albertville
Thank you for your confidence. We will tell you if there is an open door. May God lead it all for His good. In Him Corine for Evelyne Confidence? That was something that I could not find on Monday. Anywhere. The above e-mail was from the French Language School in Albertville. After they told… Continue reading Confidence
A seasoned missionary once said that she was very careful how she used the word ‘home.’ She would say, we are going to our ‘home in ____,’ and fill in the blank of the location where they were staying. At the time I didn’t quite understand this, but after our month in Brussels it really… Continue reading Home
With Brussels and Emily’s wedding now behind us, we are back on the support-raising-trail full time. I’ve sent something in the neighborhood of 20 emails today already, and that’s with Oliver busting his head open. (He’s fine, it’s just blood…) If you haven’t gotten an email from me recently it either means that A. I’m… Continue reading Support status
So, we just spent 31 days in what used to be an old paper factory, with 8 other missionary couples and their children, along with a few interns and instructors, all living on top of one another. It was one of the most wonderful experiences of our lives. MTW spent as much of this time… Continue reading Community
The Brock Family in France 