latest updates on our mission

Dear Special Friends, Last week there was another terrorist bombing here  in Europe.  This time in Brussels, Belgium. Over 30 people were killed and scores injured. ISIS said more bombings were coming to cities throughout Europe. They even named Budapest as one of the cities they would target. In the midst of all this we […]

Dear Special Partner, Crossing The Macedonian Border – As I crossed the border last week and the passport control officer looked at my passport and thumbed through the many pages of “boarder crossing stamps” from so many different countries he smiled and looked up at me. I have seen this look many times from border […]

Dear Special Friends, As you look at the enclosed photo, we have been serving as missionaries for over 34 years as missionaries now, we think you will be as amazed as we are about the journey God has led and is leading us on. When we moved to Costa Rica, Central America in early January […]

Dear Special Friends, Special Personal News. . . On November 8 we will celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary.  Like most people who have been married this long we look back on the long and winding road that we have traveled all these amazing years. This year we will probably celebrate in a special way by […]

October 1,  2015 Dear Special Friends , Some of you may have seen that Hungary has been in the news lately because of the refugees coming from the middle east countries to settle in Europe. This has been happening for over a year but the News just started covering it in the last few weeks. […]

Dear Friends, We remember well that day in the Summer of 1997 when we boarded that plane, leaving Florida with our whole family, to Budapest, Hungary.  We were all so excited and a little nervous at the same time. Just I, (Jim) had been there before and here we were taking our four children to […]

Dear Special CMI Friends, We always so enjoy when we get to come back to America for a several weeks during the summer. We have been here a couple of weeks now and have loved seeing our families and friends, eating at our favorite restaurants and ministering at several churches. When we look back on […]

  Dear Special Friend of CMI , One of the neatest things we love about serving in this part of the world is getting the reports from some of the churches that we helped to start years ago. Most of the time our focus is on churches that we are working on helping to start […]

Dear Special Friends, I just got back from BULGARIA . . . My first trip to this country in the very south part Eastern Europe was back in 1996. Since that time I have lost track of how many times I have visited this country. I have traveled and ministered from the Capital Sofia on […]