Just a few updates and how the Lord blessed during the month of December. First of all, I mentioned last month that if all went well, the doors and windows would be installed in Canaan, our church for the Gypsies. It is with great joy that I can tell you that they have all been…
When my very precocious and oldest son, Geoff was not quite 3 years-old, I decided that he could understand the ‘true meaning of Christmas’. I began by telling him ‘what if at his third birthday party everyone brought gifts with great hoopla for each other, but no one brought him a gift?’ Scowling deeply, he…
The past month has been busy and productive for LFA. We shipped nearly 400 pounds of warm winter clothing and shoes to Barza Mica (orphanage), and the two villages, Halchiu and Bahnea. We were able to send money to help a young mother who has just contracted Hepatitis B get the meds she needs. It…
November is the month when we think, perhaps more than other times of the year, just how much we have to be thankful for. With this all culminating on Thanksgiving Day, we love spending time with family, friends and way too much food! J Before my sons left home for school and to start their…
In the three-plus weeks I have been back in the States, God has been faithfully moving in the ministry. The roof is completed on Canaan, the church in Halchiu! Praise God! And, last month I said that we had ordered the doors and windows for Canaan on faith. Well, a church that has had long-term…
Recently I heard Jill Briscoe tell a story whereby some children at a church in England long ago learned the first phrase of Psalm 23. They were taught to hold up all their fingers on one hand, and to grab the end of each finger as they recited each word in the phrase – ‘the…
I went for a walk a little after 6:00 this morning back here in Norton (MA), shed some tears thinking of the beautiful snow-capped Carpathian Mts. (Transylvanian Alps) that I had left behind, and my babies and ‘kids’, and dear friends . . . But mostly, I thanked the Lord for all that He had…