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The Messenger — Spring/Summer 2020 Issue
Click on the first page of The Messenger below to access the full issue. Featured: A Chilean woman's two-day hospital stay is transformed into a miraculous gospel opportunity A "forgotten" community in Honduras receives seeds of hope and a church building Prayer...
Ten Years a Missionary
Writing to you from the frozen north of the United States is such a remarkably different experience compared to where we were posting from this same time last year. I was up early this morning shoveling our walkway of the six-to-eight inches of snow that had accumulated overnight,…
Growing Grace in San Lorenzo
A Honduran reporter once said that San Lorenzo was a village forgotten by man and God. Yet God had not forgotten. He used this report to inspire a Honduran priest to reach out to this isolated mountain community of subsistence farmers. Missionary Jeannie Loving went...
Social media woes continue
Thank you for your prayers for Uganda through this election cycle; it has largely been peaceful, though there is still a large police and military presence around. I think most people are just wanting to resume life.
The night before the presidential election, the government announced that they would shut off the…
Lament and Thanksgiving
I feel like most of my updates start with some reference to time: “It’s been so long since my last update,” “Time sure is flying by,” “Can you believe that it’s [—] time all ready?” … or something along those lines. And as I sat down to write this update I…
A Bolivian church is the “Salt and Light” of Christ across their city
SAMS Missionaries Dr. Rusty and The Rev. Tammy Firestone have served in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for nearly two decades. Today, La Trinidad Anglican Church, which Tammy pastored for 10 years, is now under Bolivian leadership. The church actively shares the hope of Christ...