Here is a report on our ’18 hour’ bus trip: Just 45 minutes ago, we arrived in our destination city after spending 21 1/2 hours on the bus! That is one of the longest trip times I have ever had on…

In just 53 minutes, I will be getting on a bus to take a trip that I have taken over a dozen times before.  The trip begins at an elevation of around 7,000 ft. We then spend about 12 hours climbing up…

There are two major differences between our ministry and that of Brother Luosang. The first difference is in the amount of money needed to actually live and minister in a given city. Even though our missionaries live very ‘spartan’ lifestyles compared to the…

After nearly 6 months of form-filling, question-asking, test-taking, and a whole lot of good ‘ole Chinese ‘mafan’ (a very common Chinese word for something that is very troublesome), today I finally received my very own Chinese drivers license! This might…

My good brother Luosang has been at our home visiting for the past 3 days. We have really had a great time and it will be sad to see him leave to head back home early tomorrow morning! It has…

Here are three quotes from Charles Spurgeon that have really been a blessing to me over the last 7 years since I came to be a Christian: Etiquette nowadays often demands of a Christian that he should not ‘intrude’ his…

One of my wife’s friends, a Chinese lady who married a Muslim (and converted to Islam), sells these toys in the evenings at a nearby park and the other day gave one to Gabriel as a gift. This is quite…

So far this week has been quite busy. I have a dozen things on my plate, and not enough time to really concentrate fully on any of them. On top of the stuff I have to do here in my…

So we wake up this morning to the sound of water splattering in the kitchen. My wife goes to change Gabriel’s diaper and hollers over to me (still in bed, trying to ignore the splashing water sound) saying, “There’s water…