October 2026

First weeks and weekneses

There are many things for which I am grateful, and I believe that your lives are also filled with them; God’s grace, patience, and kindness are truly great. The first two weeks have passed in a completely different environment and climate, as I’ve been learning to adapt to the needs…

First Trip Update!

PLEASE DO NOT PUBLICLY SHARE ANY INFORMATION I SHARE. INCLUDING PICTURES AND LOCATIONS 😊 I am officially writing to you all from my new home in Southeast Asia! First of all, you should know that I got a new phone number for my time here (a Lao number): +856 20…

Stirring up the Nest

To learn to fly, an eaglet needs its comfort disturbed. At birth, parent eagles carefully provide everything baby eagles need for growth, and in as easy a way as possible, such as dropping food into the eaglet’s beak. As the eaglet grows, parents change tactics and begin to make the…

The Gospel Was On Time

After two months temporarily serving as a missionary at another project, I returned to the Maghreb Project. I was eager to go back and see my friends from the English course again (see the October 2025 issue). I had prepared a crocheted keychain and a message written in their native…

The Question That Changed Everything

“Even being Muslim, will I be saved by God, according to your faith?” my Muslim friend Andrey asked. In the July 2026 issue, I wrote about how God impressed me to go to a chess tournament in response to my prayers to meet people. While there, I met Andrey, a…

The Trapped Butterfly

Over the summer, while many people traveled to the sea for a long vacation, Teddy and I took a break from language courses, but still tried to practice every day. Each evening, we headed to the park so Anastasia could meet with friends, which meant we usually found a parent…

Checkpoints

It was a hot, sunny day in the dry, sub-Saharan countryside. Temperatures were already in the mid-90s F (mid-30s C), and it was not yet noon. Laurie and I were enjoying the peaceful, air-conditioned bus despite the dusty, bumpy ride on this sometimes-paved, sometimes-not two-lane highway heading to a town…

Everyday Miracles

On June 3, 2025, I left South Africa to work at the Tai-Kadai Project, sharing Jesus with the people. By the time I returned home on March 26, 2026, God had allowed me to witness several everyday miracles. I Want Him to See Jesus When Dan first joined my class,…