Our Permission

Our Permission

May – June 2024 WCBC We have prayed for years for God to open the door for us to be able to connect with institutions training young people for the ministry. In May we were privileged to host a group of college students from West Coast Baptist College in...
Faithful Men

Faithful Men

March – April 2024 Faithful Men The Bible says we are to take that which we have learned and commit it to faithful men. By doing this, we expand our reach beyond what we are physically capable of. Over the last several months it has been a joy to see our people...
Thankful

Thankful

January – February 2024 Thankful We recently travelled to Bogotá to renew our daughter’s passport. We had the chance to revisit Monserrate, a famous church overlooking the capital. We took a photo at the same place that we did on our first visit to Colombia back...
International Reach

International Reach

November – December 2023 New Evangelists Our Bible Institute is a key tool that we use not only to train future laborers for the harvest and send them out, but also to develop those that stay at home. Our last class of the year was also the largest one. We had...
Soaring to New Heights

Soaring to New Heights

September – October 2023 Following Our Footsteps Pastor Fredy Osorio, one of our church planters, invited me to preach his first missions conference this year. It was definitely a challenge due to a death metal music concert going on right outside during the...
The One

The One

July – August 2020 The one In Luke 15 Jesus uses the parable of the ninety and nine. Although our ministry has been hindered almost completely due to the pandemic, God is still looking for lost sheep. Paula, one of our Bible institute students, recently shared...
New Normal

New Normal

May – June 2020 New Normal We have now been under a national quarantine for over 100 days. This translates to no in person meetings of any kind since early March. Thankfully, our online services and Bible Institute have forged ahead and we are now halfway...
God is…

God is…

March – April 2019 Increasing our Reach I met brother Marcos Ramirez on our Amazon missions trip last fall. He is a Peruvian missionary working in the Amazon basin. He immediately struck me as a special individual. March marks the end of our missions year and...
Preaching and Reporting

Preaching and Reporting

March – April 2026 Preaching and Reporting During the past couple months I had the opportunity to preach and report. I was invited to my home church to preach their Spring Conference. God moved, people were encouraged, and a young man got saved. We were also...
Come and See

Come and See

January – February 2026 Come and See Last February my sending Pastor came to visit us in Colombia. While here, we made a visit to one of our family’s homes. There were many unbelieving relatives also present. I presented the Gospel and several young men...
Youth Camp

Youth Camp

November – December 2025 Youth Camp Every year we have a youth camp between multiple sister churches. This year 4 were represented and we had over 40 kids attend. It is always a challenge to organize but as the years pass it gets easier each year. Praise the...
Missions Conferences

Missions Conferences

September – October 2025 Missions Conferences Praise God for all the opportunities this past couple of months! I was invited along with one of our church planters to preach a conference in Morelia, Mexico. Praise God! The church took him on for support. My wife...
A New Beginning

A New Beginning

July – August 2025 A New Beginning One of the hardest things about being a missionary is that you are always saying goodbye to loved ones. We had to do it once again. This time to our youngest daughter, Lily. We said goodbye to her as we took her from Colombia...
San Cristobal, Colombia

San Cristobal, Colombia

May – June 2025 San Cristobal, Colombia Although San Cristobal is a suburb of Medellín, it is a large one with a population of around 150,000 people. We sent Fredy Osorio and his family there in April of 2022 to start Iglesia Bautista Cristo el Señor. We have...
Rise up and Build

Rise up and Build

March – April 2025 Rise up and build 10 years has passed since our last building project. We have prayed, saved, and waited on God to provide a larger space in a more central location. God allowed us to sign papers and purchase a piece of property a few weeks...
New Years

New Years

January – February 2025 New Years We had a wonderful service to celebrate the New Year. Six of our faithful men ranging from sixty-three to nineteen years old preached to us. They all did a wonderful job and collectively challenged the church in a very...
Challenging

Challenging

November – December 2024 Challenging In early November we were privileged to be invited to a couple missions conferences. We reported of all God is doing in Colombia and of  new opportunities. We preached the gospel and missions, praying that God would save...
Preaching

Preaching

September – October 2024 Preaching We recently went soul-winning in a nearby park. While there, I got to preach Christ to a young man named Luis. I went through the entire Gospel message as clearly as I could. As it often happens I couldn’t convince him to trust...
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