​I would like to keep this short. We are continuing with working to get to our new missions location – Tajikistan. The basic steps we need to accomplish prior to leaving are: 1) get a better understanding of our work upon arrival and after, 2) bolster up our monthly budget for long-term ministry (increased by Bethany), and 3) wait for the nation to open up.

​As we enter Advent 2020, we earnestly pray that you are doing wonderful in Christ! Our work is an extension of Christ’s hypostatic union when He came in the flesh to reach all of us who were unreached.

We hope and pray all is well with you during this season we all find ourselves in. The Lord is still on His throne and in complete control. Let us have faith – not fear.
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As you may have heard by now (some may not have, and for that, we apologize), Cheyanne and I are going to be transitioning from our former location of ministry and missions in northeast Kenya to Central Asia – the current location being Tajikistan.

We pray all is well back home in America! We hope and trust that your celebration of our Lord’s birth was also wonderful!

​This month began with us taking a trip to Nairobi (Dec 8 – 12) for the express purpose of seeing off our older interns who were returning to Minnesota to finish up their last semester before graduating from Bethany Global University (BGU). ​

What a month it has been! In the midst of continued language learning, we have had many unexpected events come our way.
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​Life has been moving along here in Kenya this last month. Our primary priority at the moment is still language acquisition - as it will be for many more months to come. I am reminded of a line in the poem “Sailing to Byzantium” by W. B. Yeats in which it begins, “That is no country for old men.” We have much work to do! If God calls you to it, He will bring you through it.  

We hope and pray that this month you are doing well in the Lord. University classes are going well. We just crossed the halfway point in this class. One thing that stood out to me from my Church Planting reading today (June 24) is from David Hesselgrave’s book Planting Churches Cross-Culturally. He writes,
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"But prayer is more than the starting point. It is the continuing force behind the entire program of outreach. Over and over the apostle Paul exhorted believers in the churches to pray not just for their personal needs, but for him and for the work of Christ among the lost. And pray they did. And pray we should. After all, they and we are servants who minister to the Lord of the Church. We are children who should be communicating with our Father about the family business. We are solders – in an army that goes forward only on its knees!"