I have a decent connection tonight so, even though its late I thought I would give you a run down. The last two days have been running from Nauta to Santa Rita with teams and cargo. The day before yesterday was cargo and Ed Alm, I left him with the goods and said, “please have … Read more
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Culture ShockWe didn’t get out of Iquitos today. Didn’t get a permit to travel up river until 3pm. Our goal is to leave at 8am and run to Santa Rita tomorrow. —No Plans Survive The Jungle—- We managed to finish all the shopping. Paint, parts, more food, plastic plates on and on. Pray as we … Read more
Preparing for the Festival – Day 3- The first day we were here here was mostly getting some further loose ends pulled together on the boat, we fixed a vent issue, serviced the engine and purchased spare parts. Its a constant struggle to force myself to spend money on “just in case” issues, things like … Read more
The Amazon Mission Festival Adventure Begins You don’t understand spiritual warfare until you embark on a quest to take ground from the enemy. Our day to day lives don’t normally produce any resistance from satan because for the most part we aren’t any threat to him. Once we get out of our crazy lives long … Read more
“Buenos Tacos” is our standard greeting when Lucho (our Junglemaster director in Peru) and I phone each other…its a code for “all is well”….This time, what I heard was, “Tomas, I need to tell you something……. (my heart sank, I knew something was wrong)…………… “Leandro is in the hospital, he is very sick.” “Oh no, … Read more
No Chrome……………. JungleMaster doesn’t have any “Chrome”. I think we’re made out of something more like cast Iron. A Canadian friend of mine says Cast Iron is, “The American Wonder Metal”. Maybe that’s not a great analogy, but what we don’t have is anything that tears at the heart of the average North American Christian. … Read more
I have to laugh at Gods sense of humor, we’ve not only had the longest transition to full-time ministry in history at 13 years, but now hold the title of shortest term full-time missionaries in history, 4 months……BUT now I’m going for the most transitions back into full-time ministry, we’ll return as soon as we … Read more
Jimmy was just doin the Lords work…. Today Janet and I are celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary, last week we began to think we should do something special but there were a lot of obstacles in our way. Over the week God took our “Perfect Storm” and created a “Perfect Calm” …..Our daughter Tessa had … Read more
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