latest updates on our mission

Blessings, Birthdays…. Both of us are celebrating birthdays this summer. Brenda on June 24 and me (Jim) on July 16. I don’t mind telling my age, born 1957 in Wausau, Wisconsin, but I’ll leave it up to Brenda to tell hers. (She was born in Lakeland, Florida) As we get older birthdays are not the […]

Hello Friends, Sometimes change is good for us. But sometimes it’s a bit challenging. That is the way it is for us sometimes too. Having served in Eastern Europe for over 28 years has been an amazing adventure at times and has involved constant change. We had change when we moved to Central America in […]

Dear Special Friends, We are doing wonderful and so excited about what God is going to do in 2023. There has been some changes in our lives and we are thrilled about this too. We are doing great personally and the ministry is doing wonderful too. We wanted to update you on something that has […]

Dear Special Friends and Partners, 2023!  WOW!.  We are expecting great things this year not only in the nations of Eastern Europe where we serve but in America and around the world.  We are thrilled we get to be a part of what God is doing these days. It was 41 years ago this month […]

Merry Christmas, We absolutely love the Christmas Season and the decorations in the city, stores and houses. It’s so nice going into stores and coffee shops and hearing Christmas Music in both English and Hungarian. Songs like Silent Night are recognizable in any language. Click on the video below of us and watch our three […]

Hello Special Friends, So many of our friends and people that partner with us know us from the e-letters, or newsletters or maybe heard us speak in a church at one time or another.. We both are very much relationship people. We love sitting down in peoples homes or at a coffee shop and just […]

Dear Friends, We are now in our 26th year of serving here in Hungary and Eastern Europe. We arrived back in Budapest on Monday and it feels so good to be back home.  We absolutely loved our time in the USA this summer, seeing our kids and families and just enjoying America. Relaxing, going to […]

Hello Friends, We are so excited to be able to come to America again this summer. On June 22 we will fly to Florida and it will be wonderful  to see our kids and grandkids and so much of our family and friends. These times are so special to us and we are sure it’s […]

Dear Friends, This year 2022, is not at all like we thought it would be for us. We thought that with the pandemic issues mainly over in this part of the world we could get back to being focused on helping pastors and leaders to help start more churches in the so many cities and […]