Well, Greater Portland Bible Church family, it looks like this is my last blog. I have to confess I always struggled writing the blog, but this particular one seems to be the hardest one to write. I suppose it’s because I have to say goodbye. I’m not quite sure how to even say...
This past weekend, Greater Portland Bible Church hosted to the Student ConneXion Mission Conference. This was a conference centered entirely around raising up, equipping, and sending out the next generation of missionaries, whether they go out over the oceans around the world or out to...
“A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22 Last Saturday was the big Husker-Duck football game. Like good Husker fans, Lana, Thea, Lana’s two sisters, brother in-law, and I all made the trip down to Eugene to support the...
"A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance." John 10:10 This was the theme verse of our mission site in Heart Butte, Montana. The Ignite mission team spent a week serving Jesus and discovering and...
In just over a month, the students of Ignite Student Ministry will be headed out east to Montana. We will be on a mission trip to the Black Feet Nation Native American Reservation in the northwest part of Montana. It is shaping up to be quite a trip already, and we are not even there yet! A few...
In about a week Lana, Thea, and I will be making the 25+ hour trip back to our home towns. Each day that we get closer I find myself getting more excited, but for things I never would have expected. For instance, as I was driving across town today and...
As some of you may know last year, at the end of January, Lana and I had a miscarriage. We lost our first child and the grief was unbearable. It was a very deep loss for us. But later that June we found out that we were once again pregnant. What a gift from God after such a deep loss. Yet the...
Last week, during the great 2017 snow storm, I had to spend some time in the emergency room. Now don’t worry, everything is ok and the doctor and nurses took great care of me. Since most of the clinics and doctor’s offices were closed due to the weather, the emergency room was rather...
Well, it’s finally coming…the New Year! 2016 is over and 2017 is beginning and with it a new start to many things. I don’t know about you, but to me, it seemed as though 2016 wasn’t the best year. A lot of things happened this past year including many loved ones that...
Oh fall, you just can’t beat this time of year! There is so much about it that is just great. The leaves are changing, the temperature is finally bearable, the rain and clouds are back, and the hunting seasons are starting. Yes, fall is the best time of the year. At least I think so...