Category The Ends of the Earth

With all the crazy things going on in our world today, we Christians should be the most joyful people around! In Christ we have “an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading” (1 Peter 1:4). And we can always pray.…

Tibetan Altitude Training in the Andes (learn more: tibetAndina) In an update published way back in May, I mentioned we were on our way high up into the Andes for a long weekend of ministry. Those few days were amazing, full…

“Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.” (Rom 12:15) “Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.” (Heb 13:3) You have…

Over the years, when asked the question “where” exactly we lived within China, I usually responded something like this: “The foothills of Tibet in Northwest China.” However, this was always slightly misleading. We only lived in “northwest China” in the…

Folks don’t usually think of mountains when they think of Oklahoma, but most of us Okies know better!  A Tribute to my Dad For as long as I can remember, our yearly schedule was punctuated with hiking trips to “the…

Not much has changed since I originally wrote and posted this short article almost 9 years ago… After spending my first 3 years as a Christian in the States involved in tons of personal evangelism and now after having spent…

So I have had trouble getting back into a “normal” sleep schedule these past few nights, after spending 15 in a row out on the moon-lit streets with my wonderful team of praying, singing, hiking, climbing, *crumbers. Night after night…

After months of visiting family, friends, and churches in the USA, and winter mission trips to both Peru and China, we are finally resettling into our home in the foothills of northwest China! We humbly thank all of you who…

As if we weren’t hosting enough teams already this year (11, if I am counting correctly, see below for some highlights of our most recent teams), I just stumbled across some amazing airfares from the US to China for this…

Our last update ended with us preparing to leave on about a week long mission trip “farther up and farther in” to the Tibetan Plateau southwest of us to try and locate the unreached and most likely unengaged Sogwo Arig…