I am blessed beyond measure in so many ways in my life, and one of those ways is the men that God allows me to learn from and work with in world evangelism. I am also blessed with an incredible group of people that follow this blog, pray for us, and show their love for [...]
This is the final embarrassing/awful story from deputation that I will be sharing, and I’ve saved the best for last. And no, this one actually doesn’t feature cats. 3. Rude Awakening A little known fact about missionary culture is that we have our own version of Russian Roulette: it’s called the “Prophet’s Chamber”! If you’ve [...]
2. The Christmas Miracle I love all those sappy Christmas movies that feature animals, always so cute and cuddly, teaching kids the “true meaning of Christmas”, whatever that means. Well, the real story is not so cute and cuddly. We had just driven 3 days from southern CA to Houston TX to spend Christmas with [...]
Ah deputation… Only a little over a year, and more stories and sermon illustrations than I know what to do with. There have been incredibly wonderful experiences like seeing God provide in crazy ways, seeing people come to Christ (again just yesterday!), and just getting to do neat things as a family like see Elena’s [...]
Dear Praying Friends, Happy New Year from the Newton family! This time last year we had only just started deputation, and the majority of those receiving this letter we had not met yet. Looking back over 2011, I can’t believe how good God has been to us in providing our needs, but more than that, [...]
This is an excellent post on missions by a friend in China. Please pray for their ministry planting churches and training Chinese pastors! from The Gospel in China by Vengador It is becoming increasingly common to hear Christian leaders say something like this: ‘the problem in modern missions is that the church is sending missionaries to all the [...]
Hard to believe 2011 is already gone! I was just looking back over our calendar and journal for the last year, and I am blown away by how good God has been to us. Many of our wonderful friends, prayer warriors, or partners in the ministry who are reading this are people that we had [...]
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Every time I read the Spanish news I see how badly the Gospel is needed in a society that wants nothing to do with God. ...
Ladies Corner: You might be on Deputation if…
Your daughter: Yells “we’re home!” when you pull up to a hotel Thinks it’s strange if you are not going to be in the car ...
The baby waiting game, and some more incredible examples of God’s grace through unexpected sources…
The missionary we are praying for this week is DG (name withheld for security reasons) in Egypt. He and his family are in their first ...
