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Tables turned on me
One of my favorite lists is my email recipients who are Latin missionaries. I send things their way, every once in a while, just to...

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Aug 20, 20221 min read
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Two of three before noon
I received this text from a young missionary friend: “I have a little story to tell you. The past few weeks I’ve been worrying about...

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Jul 6, 20223 min read
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Bending over backwards
It seems, like always, that God bends over backwards for the Schultz’s. As we have written previously, Veronica’s biopsy showed that the...

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Jun 20, 20221 min read
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Not for naught
Twelve hundred miles from home, I walked out of my hotel room, Bible in hand, just to spend some time in the Word. A voice across the...

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May 28, 20222 min read
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Part of the action
As a family, this past week, we had some wonderful R & R, at the far southern tip of “our” Baja peninsula (1000 miles south, in Los...

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Apr 10, 20221 min read
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Sold-out folks don’t look for excuses
My current series of short, daily videos in Spanish, is titled “What's Your Excuse?” A week ago, a couple of our missionary families...

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Mar 8, 20221 min read
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One traumatic challenge after another
Someone did not like their animals, apparently. At least, that is what Mauri and Migda hope. Their family moved onto the mission field...

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Feb 24, 20221 min read
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My friend Francisco
Our eyes are firmly on Jesus as we walk through these challenging times of COVID. It hit us in November, and Veronica is having heavy...

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Jan 10, 20224 min read
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This wild ride
The past few weeks have been a wild ride. COVID-19 arrived at our home the second Sunday of November, and we are still in the battle. All...

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Dec 18, 20212 min read
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A view of heaven
Five of us home with COVID… Veronica most seriously; my sister Valerie, visiting for Thanksgiving, is unfortunately included. Rachel...

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Dec 7, 20212 min read
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Unhonkable
I was driving down one of Ensenada’s main boulevards and happened to see my friend Daniel up on his sand ridge. That sand ridge is home...

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Nov 16, 20211 min read
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To make a short story long
I like short stories, but this one is a bit complicated, and it began 17 years ago, so bear with me… It was dusk, and one house away from...

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Nov 3, 20212 min read
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535 days and one more so very sweet
It had been 535 days since the Porvenir church had come together to worship, or do anything else for that matter. Sunday, September 5,...

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Sep 6, 20211 min read
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Tough, street-hardened homies
It was a Monday night in 1986. I had spoken a simple message about Samson if this old memory serves me right. Immediately afterwards,...

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Aug 5, 20212 min read
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Feeling good
Living by faith is always an experience, and part of the awe of it is simply the fact that you, and others like you, give to us. Even...

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Jul 13, 20211 min read
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A walk down memory lane
It was over 30 years ago. Our “little family” was sitting at the table, enjoying a nice meal. It still amazes me how Veronica held us...

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Jun 9, 20213 min read
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Joke’s on us
Veronica and I met and married at Rose Park Orphanage in Tijuana. We both worked there for a number of years as single people, then...

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May 4, 20212 min read
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Best Friday
It is Good Friday. In Mexico we call it Holy Friday, but good is good enough for me. In fact, for me it is Gooder Friday than for most...

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Apr 2, 20212 min read
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This little corner of the world
On the one hand there’s a feeling that we are climbing up towards the downhill run of Covid here. Vaccines are not happening much, but...

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Mar 4, 20211 min read
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Simple people, simply hurting
Some of the homeless in Ensenada live under bridges, so we were at the bridges yesterday, serving breakfast. Tough to be poor. Tougher,...

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Feb 2, 20211 min read
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