July 28, 2010 - — My time in Kenya (so far) can be characterized nicely by an encounter that I had just last night. I was on my way across the beautiful KBTC campus to eat dinner and then go to bed, as I was very tired after six hours of class. On the way, there was a Kenyan man walking in the same direction and, as is custom in Kenya, we shook hands and greeted. He informed me of his name, Onesmus, and told me that he had just arrived in order to graduate the next day at the large ceremony KBTC would be hosting. Without missing a beat, he asked if he ...

July 21, 2010 - — It began in ‘baby Hebrew' class, singing the 133rd psalm and being captivated by Jamie's stories of joy and life of a different kind. It continued in Kenya with a summer long practicum with another people, experiencing rich community in ways that left us permanently changed. That joy and that life continues to haunt us, to challenge us, and to bless us, even today. Psalm 133 was sung in anticipation of communal worship to the King. It is about how good and how marvelous life is when we share our lives together in community, when we ...

July 15, 2010 - — Dear Ones, Mimi and I greet you from the Kenya Baptist Theological College in Limuru, Kenya. We have just said asante sana, "thank you very much" to Justin Hyde, Peter Morisette, and Alex Smiley. Justin and Peter taught courses at the KBTC, and Alex has been helping dig post holes for a new fence line that will help guard some KBTC land soon to be farmed for the first time. All preached and mentored our family of faith here. Mimi and I don't say good bye - Alex will be back with us here at the KBTC later this month. This ...

July 07, 2010 - — After a full day (24 hours) of travel, my friend Peter and I landed in Nairobi late on Saturday night, June 26, 2010. More excited than weary, we met with our new friends Enos Weswah (Principal, Kenya Baptist Theological College) and Linus Kirimi (Vice Principal, KBTC) and continued our journey for another 2 hours (on rough Kenyan roads, if you can call the worn and beaten paths roads) to the campus of KBTC in Limuru, Kenya. Though our African brothers are rarely punctual, they never waste time: “You will preach in the morning,” I was told....

June 30, 2010 - — As we reflect on this past season and look forward to the coming season, Destiny and I realize that our lives are truly a testimony of God's abundant grace. Daily we recognize our need for God and we are amazed that he continually rescues us from ourselves and redirects us toward himself. We have experienced much within even the last year. Both Destiny and I have been through the sickness and loss of loved ones, the search and switching of employments, the chaos and comfort of moving homes, the challenge of a change of spiritual ...

June 22, 2010 - — Mimi and I apologize for the long delay in writing. We have returned to our hearts' home and are more than well. Our schedule in Nairobi has been crazy busy. Yep ... you can take the American out of America, but you can't take…. Thank you for your prayers and for all of your encouraging support. Our travel back home was smooth, and we are busily enjoying our Lord's work in Kenya. Once again, struggling through the physical difficulties of a transition period reminds us that our home is with God and his people. I am ...

June 15, 2010 - — How exciting it is to see what God is doing among his people through computer technology, and how he has gifted us to make new tools to access and explore the infinite content of the Bible. Among these tools, some of the most promising are not expensive, platform-specific packages, but rather they are web applications which are typically available to anyone with internet access. Tyndale House, Residential Center for Biblical Research in Cambridge, England, has recently published a list of some very interesting new tools on their ...

May 22, 2010 - — Dear Ones, Mimi and I thank you for a beautiful, worshipful time at our 2010 HaMoreh Benefit. Wow! Over 375 of us joined together as family, praising God, enjoying one another, and giving to help our brothers and sisters in Africa - heaven on earth! We thank God for you. Your participation encourages us greatly. Thank you for caring and for sharing so lovingly. HaMoreh received enough in contributions to fund our annual budget for 6 months. That allows us to head home to East Africa early next month with our mission projects ...

April 29, 2010 - — As we prepare to return to Africa, Mimi and I thank you for your prayers and for your support of our mission to the beautiful and needy people of Africa. Our 2010 summer will be jammed full of Bible teaching in African churches and classrooms. With heartfelt thanks for your help, here are a few mentions of God's work planned for the remainder of 2010: Teaching Bible and biblical theology classes in Africa (I've taught over 545 African student-pastors so far!) Preaching a full schedule in local churches (where God has enabled me to ...

March 10, 2010 - — Wow! As we prepare for another summer ministry season in Africa Mimi and I are deeply encouraged by God's faithfulness. We look back and are thrilled to experience the growth of young African Christian leaders, churches, and other learning centers. We look forward and are thrilled to experience growing numbers of brothers and sisters planning to join HaMoreh's work in Africa this summer. Mimi and I thank you for your encouraging support. Your prayers and financial support make all of HaMoreh's ministry possible, thank you! Our ...

January 21, 2010 - — As Mimi and I get used to the idea that we are in a new year, we pray that all will be new for you in 2010. It is and will be; we pray that we all will live consciously in the reality of every day being brand new! We are new creatures in Christ, everyday. God is birthing us anew and afresh, everyday. May we know the freshness of the perpetual and eternal beginning of being born again by the Holy Spirit. May our thinking, feeling, talking, and living be fresh, all the time. May we be surprised continually by the life ...

November 30, 2009 - — In the West, our 2009 liturgical year has come to an end. Going to church from Sunday to Sunday, it's hard to make the connection. Hopping from dot to dot, it's difficult to connect the dots - hard to realize that there is indeed movement in the Christian church's liturgy. This past Sunday, Advent Sunday, we were to be celebrating the triumph of Christ and his church, the eschatological hope on which our Christian faith is founded. Advent, as the Latin implies, is a building of anticipation towards the coming of Christ, the ...

November 05, 2009 - — The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few ... Mt. 9:37 On behalf of our African family of faith, Mimi and I thank you for your prayers and for your support of our 2009 mission to the beautiful and needy people of Africa. Once again, our summer was jammed full of Bible teaching in churches and in classrooms. With heartfelt thanks for your help, here are just a few mentions of God's work amongst us this summer: Mentoring our 6 resident African faculty members teaching Old and New Testament classes and assisting them as ...

October 06, 2009 - — Mimi and I invite you to join us at our home church for an awesome evening of African music. Afrizo, a student choir from Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya, will present a concert on Friday, October 30th from 7:30-8:30 PM in the Chapel at Houston's First Baptist Church. The concert is free of charge. The church is located at 7401 Katy Freeway, Houston, TX 77024 in the southwest corner of the interchange between I-10 (Katy Freeway) and I-610 W (West Loop). For directions click this link, or call 713-681-8000. Please come and ...

September 18, 2009 - — Mimi and I thank God that we live in a growing family of faith. While in Houston, we enjoy our local church family, Houston's First Baptist Church, and we walk more closely with our Bible study family, Oikos. Each weekday in Houston, I live life with our Houston Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary families - students, faculty, and even administrative types. Our Greek and Hebrew babies are nearby, and many are now all over the world; some are serving our Lord far from home. Our HaMoreh family is busy ...

August 05, 2009 - — Reflecting on another summer in East Africa, I am reminded that there are ghettos, and there are ghettos. Most of the African news that reaches our Western evangelical ghettos is bad - very bad. In 1994, a million murdered in Rwanda in 100 days - more people slaughtered more rapidly in the Rwandan genocide than at any other time in history. Forty thousand bodies flowed down the Kagera River into Uganda's Lake Victoria. In 1983, the Second Sudanese Revolution yielded 2 million Sudanese dead, and another 4 million driven into refuge ...

July 01, 2009 - — Dear Ones, Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa. We hope that you and yours are well and that y'all are enjoying a refreshing summer season. To update you, Mimi and I lost a few days to illness in Kenya last month but are gladly back on schedule. Thank you for your prayers. Mimi and I are well again and ministering with a group of our HBU biblical language graduates, now living here in Africa. We are proud like parents! We all wake up in the book of Acts, live with Christians "faithing it" like in the book of Acts, encounter God at ...

June 18, 2009 - — Like each and every time before, we didn't have enough time to pack, didn't get done all that we had hoped to in Houston, didn't say good-byes to all those we dearly love, didn't feel like we were ready upon arrival, but God continues to care for us wonderfully each and every day. Sorry for the long delay in writing. Mimi and I have returned to our hearts' home and are more than well. Our schedule in Nairobi has been crazy busy. Yep ... you can take the American out of America, but you can't take.... Thank you for your prayers ...

May 14, 2009 - — Dear Ones, Mimi and I thank you for a beautiful, worshipful time at our HaMoreh Benefit 2009. Wow! Over 350 of us joined together as family, praising God, enjoying one another and giving to help our brothers and sisters in Africa - heaven on earth! We thank God for you. Your participation encourages us greatly. Thank you for caring and for sharing so lovingly. HaMoreh received enough in contributions to fund our annual budget for 5 months. That allows us to head home to East Africa early next month with our mission projects funded ...

April 01, 2009 - — As we prepare to spring back into action in Africa, Mimi and I thank you for your prayers and for your support of our mission to the beautiful and needy people of Africa. Our 2009 summer will be jammed full of Bible teaching in African churches and classrooms. With heartfelt thanks for your help, here are a few mentions of God’s work planned for the remainder of 2009: Mentoring our 6 resident African faculty members teaching Old and New Testament classes and assisting them as they train younger teachers to follow Mentoring 5 North ...