Visualize what it would be like to spend a day and a half with a few other families (seventeen other families to be exact) who had made it their goal to encourage one another in their walk with the Lord!   As Mr. Wilkes brought out in the opening session, encouragement is vital. As we […]

Heidelberg Photoshoot fun usually starts with a phone call. Well, this one ended a little different than normal. “Well James! I’m so glad you are still in the office” I heard David say after picking up the phone at around 4:45 at the end of long day at work, “we’ve got a little project for […]

  Last Friday evening, the single staff here at Headquarters worked diligently to host a Valentine’s Banquet in honor of the directors and couples serving with IBLP. But this was no ordinary banquet! The six course meal, lavish decorations, and creatively decked tables attested to the countless hours spent in making this the most memorable […]

One of the greatest evidences of the Lord’s blessing on our family vacation was the way he timed each stop. In North Carolina, the day of our arrival providentially coincided with the day our cousin needed help packing for a move; in Savannah, Georgia, the one day we passed through was the day after school […]

After a full day of travel, I was grateful to be in Mexico! Robert and I are here with a mission team from IBLP, who will be encouraging pastors who are attending a major conference in Mexico City. We were all hungry when we arrived, but we couldn’t find a place to eat because it […]

For the past years we have always looked forward to a fall Apple Butter Festival. In years past we have participate in “Greased pig contest” and other little activities. But this year sadly we were all too old to join in. What could we do this year that would make this 25th anniversary special. A […]

Sometimes, the intensity of work in ministry requires a retreat; a retreat to study the past and plan for the future; to focus on better understanding your fellow laborers; to reestablish one accord; to rest; and to be rejuvenated! Now we are prepared to press forward; to tackle the tasks that lay before us! Follow […]

There are a whole lot of things I could say about this past Journey–the spectacular sunrises, the scrumptious meals, the property tour, the pillow fights, and the bald eagles. Yet while these items were fun, they were not the source of the true excitement which we, as a team of 13 young men  seeking God […]

Well, no. One more trek up Bei Da Wu Shan or Yu Shan didn’t work out. I have returned to the rolling hills of home in West Virginia and a trip to Spruce Knob is in the making. But even between home and Taiwan, the Lord had one more surprise high place.   It started […]