Caption Challenge
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Caption Challenge

What better way to comemmorate the re-opening of the comments section than with a good old-fashioned Caption Challenge. This picture is from the Facebook page of the Igreja Batista Manancial in Fortaleza, where we had the privilege of participating in a conference on missions last week. You can see more pictures here. The links below…

Amazon Adventure Video
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Amazon Adventure Video

If you follow us on Facebook, you know we spent last week in the city of Manaus, on the Amazon River, at the annual conference of the Baptist Mid Missions missionaries here in Brazil. Later on I’ll have pictures, but for now, here’s a sequence of videos I took with the GoPro. As always, a…

Moon Over Maranhão
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Moon Over Maranhão

Our son Michael has been developing a great interest in astronomy. For his birthday we were able to acquire for him a fairly potent telescope, and ever since then he has been on a quest to see new wonders in the night sky. Here are some of the pictures he has taken recently. You can…

Bibles for Bricklayers
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Bibles for Bricklayers

Missions is not just carried out in formal preaching/teaching sessions. Indeed, for the most part it is dealing with people you meet in everyday life. Like the workers who are building our house. In conversations with them, I discovered that four of them had no Bibles. So we took care of that problem. Since then I’ve…

This New House
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This New House

Many have been following the progress of the construction of our house via Facebook. I have decided to include a photoset here on the site, featuring the process from A to Z. I’ll keep adding pictures as time goes by.

Photos from NY, PA, and DC
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Photos from NY, PA, and DC

We were privileged to spend roughly four months in New York, visiting churches, getting together with old friends, and make new ones. Besides traveling to churches, I also had the privilege of working for a natural gas company in Corning, which afforded me many “Kodak moments”. Here is a gallery of some of the best of…

Our “Daughter” in Bolivia
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Our “Daughter” in Bolivia

Some may remember back during our first term when we would ask for prayer for a young lady named Crizelite (Cris, for short). We met Cris when she was working as a maid for a lady in our neighborhood. It was not hard to see that she had a strong sense of the call of…

Michael in Portugal: Some Pictures
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Michael in Portugal: Some Pictures

You may remember, about three months ago, I posted about an opportunity our son Michael had to go on a missions trip to Portugal. God provided, and he was able to have an incredible experience with other young people from Fellowship Baptist Church in Lakeland, Florida. Here are some of the pictures he took. More…