April 2018 Dear Friends in Christ, At the beginning of the month, we had our annual mission retreat. It is always a good time of fellowship as we see friends and hear how God has been working in their ministry on the various reservations. This year, we decided to say thank you to those on […]
March 2018 Dear Friends in Christ, March has been a busy month. A lot of changes to our plans each day, so we’re glad that God is in control and is even interested in scheduling what we do each day. Just trust Him and don’t stress out over unexpected changes! Sam’s classes are going well […]
Feb. 2018 Dear Friends in Christ, The Bible School classes for this semester are on Christology/the doctrine of Christ. We have students that are taking the class for credit and others that are auditing. One of the students brought her mother-in-law to class one Sunday evening. The topic for that particular class was “Why did […]
January 2018 Dear Friends in Christ, The Lord has given us another year. We are truly thankful for His hands on us this past year and allowing us to be a part of His plan. Now that the holidays are past, we are slowly getting back into our routine. Sam’s Bible School classes have started […]
November-December 2017 Dear Friends in Christ, Last month, we made our annual trip back to the east coast to spend Thanksgiving with our family. 5 of our 6 children were able to be together for Thanksgiving Day. Our son from Alaska brought his family down so we could all meet our 6 month old […]
October 2017 Dear Friends in Christ, We have had several opportunities to serve the Lord this month: *We both were teachers at a Parenting Conference on the Navajo Reservation. *We have been able to share the Gospel with folks that God puts in our daily life as well as times of counseling […]
September 2017 Dear Friends in Christ, This month, Sam started teaching the Theology classes at the Diyin Bizaad Institute (Navajo for “God’s Word” Institute). The classes are 2 hours each week on the Doctrine of Soteriology (salvation). Though fall has definitely hit northern Arizona, the weather is quite nice at present- but the snows […]
Summer time is VBS time! One evening we were able to help one of our fellow missionaries who work among the Yavapai-Apache people. Their theme was a cowboy theme and we took our 2 horses down and gave the kids rides. The kids seemed to really enjoy it and we must admit that it was […]
June 2017 Dear Friends in Christ, This month we had a visit from one of our grand-daughters for 5 days. At the age of 12, each of our grandchildren has been invited for a visit so we can get to know each other better. This year, it was Isabela’s (Bela) turn. Because of her age, […]
May 2017 Dear Friends in Christ, Last month we spent 2 weeks away from Arizona. During that time we were able to visit with 4 of our supporting churches; 3 in NY and 1 in PA. One was a Hunters’ Banquet, an evangelistic outreach event at one of our churches and 2 decisions for restoration […]
March/April 2017 Dear Friends in Christ, This past month, while visiting at the nursing home, Janet and Helen had a new visitor to our devotional time. Juanita is a new patient there and found a childhood friend who was one of our regular gals. Please pray with us for Juanita’s salvation. Just before going to […]
February 2017 Dear Friends in Christ, Early this month, we had 3 snow storms hit, one right after another, leaving us with 37 inches of snow. Just beautiful! But not good driving weather. After the snow, we had several days of very warm weather and though it made the snow disappear, it replaced it […]
