What’s the big deal about this Support that’s always being asked for?  Let me see if I can give you a clearer understanding. To support is to partner with, to encourage, to be joined and work/serve along with (even if not physically in country). There are two ways that you can support me as a missionary. Prayer Support is by far the most important in my mind.  You, as prayer warriors, whether you are a praying person or someone who keeps the Argentina mission and me in your thoughts and hearts, are a huge part of what strengthens me, carries me and helps me to ask the hard questions, and then sometimes even harder, to respond to the answer.  As we are nearing Easter, my prayer request is for strength, rest and peace while grieving the loss of Max and navigating this truly new life. Financial Support is the necessary means to the mission. We are not meant to do things on our own.  My budget is in Canadian funds and will be paid from the Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada. Thus I will not be negatively affected by exchange rates.  The budget is for two years. So your commitment of an annual or monthly amount would be for the next two years.  This commitment can start at any time. […]

I’m going to save this weeks ‘update’ for the monthly email, but I do want to share about how Christ has really spoken to me with the scripture of Jesus’s prayer in the place, the garden, called Gethsemane.  It seems fitting to share this with you now as we draw closer to Easter. In the month of December, as we neared Christmas and were celebrating the holiday season; I have to admit that at the beginning of December, I was pretty much done with all of your Christmas cheer.  I don’t mean to say that in a rude way, and I hope I wasn’t rude to any of you; but I was hurting.  I didn’t want to celebrate and I really wanted to avoid the whole season.  Now, I know that Christ knows our pain and suffering; we all know this and understand it; in our minds at least.  But God took me to Jesus’s prayer and I was compelled to look at in in all the gospels; in Mark 14:36, Matthew 26:38-44 and Luke 22:42-44.  How I ended up in this scripture, I really don’t know; but it was a morning of reading, praying, casting (hucking and throwing) and when I came to this passage in Matthew; it was like the Father said ‘stop here, I want to tell […]

So the next biggest question I get from a lot of people… What’s up with the purple bear in your photos? Well…. I hope some of our young friends from Norquay or Strathmore will contribute to this post at some point.  But in the meantime, let me introduce you to Shotgun!  He’s our little missionary buddy that travels with me everywhere.  Whenever Max and I had an opportunity to be a part of a VBS, Camp or Sunday School lesson, Shotgun helped explain what it means to be a missionary.  He has a deal with the kids.  If they committed to pray for Argentina and us, he would bring them something back from Argentina.  And to make it fun, the kids have to find Shotgun in each of the updates their parents get. Shotgun got his name from Max.  When Max worked away from home, this lil bear would be a stowaway in Max’s gear and eventually he got to ride shotgun in the truck, hence, his name. Report This Post