Making The Rounds
On The Rich Coast Costa Rica means "Rich Coast" and almost everyone agrees that this is one beautiful country. However, beauty can be deceptive as the ...
(June 8, 2010)

Rebuild and Reach Out - Haiti
The Haiti Report The largest snow storm of the year was due to hit the east coast on the day that Mark Nikitin (ABWE) and I were to fly out of the Baltimore ...
(March 3, 2010)

ABWE Haiti Relief Effort
First Response Within hours of the 7.1 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Rich was huddled with key ABWE personnel in Harrisburg, PA to make some important ...
(January 30, 2010)

Certainty in the Midst
Our Bright Hope Rests on the Bright Past "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, ...
(December 12, 2009)

Good Oil and Good Soil Bless Nicaragua and Beyond
Medical Team Partners With Missionaries and National Churches Good Oil The ministry of this year's ABWE short term medical ministry in Nicaragua is ...
(August 24, 2009)

Howdy Partner!
Being and Finding Partners is the Plan Partners in General No, this is not going to be a review of an old John Wayne western movie! But we do want ...
(June 12, 2009)

Going Up
"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly ...
(February 26, 2009)

The Ninth Wave
Fear of the Wave Surfboard riders, borrowing an old sailor's expression, often speak of a "ninth wave.” It means a single wave larger than all the others. ...
(August 12, 2008)

Harvest Commemoration
Celebration of Cross Cultural Harmony "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ...
(November 7, 2007)

All Shook Up!
POWERFUL PERUVIAN EARTHQUAKE A powerful earthquake, now listed at 8.0 in magnitude, shook Peru on Wednesday night August 15, 2007, killing at ...
(August 16, 2007)

Touching On Transformation
The resurrection of Christ was the most powerful and amazing transformation the universe has ever witnessed. Soon after that unequaled day in all of history, ...
(April 8, 2007)

Parting Shots
Spiritual Harvest - Reason for Thanksgiving What more appropriate time than the Sunday before Thanksgiving to celebrate the initial gathering of the ...
(December 1, 2006)

Drawing the Nets
Big Day for New Churches Jo Ann and I are almost finished with our church planting project here in India and happy about how it's going. We are planning ...
(November 15, 2006)

Idols of Clay Are Melting Away
Melting Idols Recently, Jo Ann and I were in northern India and noticed a newspaper article lamenting the fact that the monsoon rains were coming down ...
(September 29, 2006)

Incense in Heaven
NOTE: See the 4 new albums in the Photo Gallery! India is a melting pot of eastern religions. It seems that many of these groups use incense ...
(May 8, 2006)

Teaching Them To Observe All Things
The sound of chanting was especially strange given the early morning hour. Who would be chanting at 4:30 AM? As we stirred in our semi sleepy state, we ...
(April 14, 2006)

The Saga Begins
Thomas Was Here Tradition claims that the Apostle Thomas came to India and died as a martyr in the Madras (Chennai) area. What an awesome thought to ...
(February 1, 2006)

Christmas Greetings!
“Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: ...
(December 16, 2005)

Déjà-vu - Oct 2005
Déjà-vu & Sharing With You Last month Jo Ann and I were in Costa Rica and while there we had the joy of spending some time with Ivan ...
(October 20, 2005)

Expanding the Vision - Aug 2005
  "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.?" John 4:35b Crossing The Country   We arrived in ...
(August 16, 2005)