Tag: September

So so so close to the finish line! Calli, Felicity, and I moved here to Manila in March 2003, and have had a wonderful ministry here all that time. We actually started ministry here in October 1997, 22 years ago.  We had bought the mission center and totally remodeled beginning in July 2008. On February 17th 2016, our mission center caught fire and was completed destroyed. We lost everything we had in the center including all our family heirlooms, pictures, and clothing, all but our night clothes on our backs, in less than an hour.  Worse than that, we lost our daughter Felicity, a 32 year old mother of two! That nearly killed all of us! The fire is still consuming our lives. Every day we spend not in our home and mission center is a day that is stolen or consumed by the fire.  Every day reminds us, now we are so close to the finish line!  Sometimes it’s like I’m...