When I am on a plane, the thing that I hope does NOT happen is that the plane goes into a “holding pattern”. If you have flown numerous times then you know what I mean. The plane is making it’s descent and you are looking forward to landing and then the pilots voice comes on…
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$7,000
$7,000 is the amount that we need before we can go to Mexico. Our mission board requires us to be fully funded before the give us the “thumbs up” to make our plans. It is our goal to raise the remainder of our funds by the end of this week. If you as an individual…
Answering the Question: “When are you going?”
One of the most frequently asked questions we get these days are “When are you going? Do you have a date?” This question does not annoy us. We are glad that people are interested. Our answer always is “When we reach 100% our budget in our monthly giving and 100% in our one-time costs, we…
Here then There
What is precious to you? What is of value? What do those words mean to you? Because of the nature of our job, John and I have very little material things. That does not make us more sacrificing than others, for people sacrifice in other ways, but it means we place value on different things…
Specific Prayer Requests
As we near our goal of 100% support there are many items that we are asking that you pray specifically about. First we would like to tell you that by the month of September we are hoping to be 85% supported. We have been doing a campaign to get 50 individual supporters at $50 a…
Three Times- A Poem
Like Paul, some of us have thorns in our flesh that can not or will not come out. God decides not to take it away but to use it. This is for you. Three Times Three Times I asked you my Lord, To take this thorn from me, And oh so gently you whispered to…
The Missionary Wife- A poem
God gave me this poem today, for all the precious missionary wives out there. I saw her sitting in my church with a slight smile on her face, she’s not very grand or important I would’ve passed her on the street anyday. But I knew she was not ordinary, I’ve been keeping up with her…
New Website, New Fund-raising Campaign
Welcome to our new website! We hope you like it. We thought since we changed our location we should have a new name and a new look. Some of you know this, but for those who don’t the word “TapatÃo” is a Mexican Spanish colloquial term for someone from Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco,…
Did You Forget About My Grace? -A Poem
The Lord gave me this poem today I simply wrote it down. It is not often that this happens but when it does it blesses my heart. In the morning I let my sin nature get the best of me. Let’s just say, I’ve had better moments. Yet here is this poem that He gave…
I love you because you have Cerebral Palsy- A letter to Malachi
My dear Malachi, It is the year anniversary of your Cerebral Palsy diagnosis. That day changed my world. First it filled me with grief to know that you may never sit or walk and that I would not see you reach milestones that most babies reach. Many of those things I took for granted. My…