latest updates on our mission

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 […]

Dear Special Friends, This past week as I traveled to Poland once again to minister and visit a new church that we are working to help start, I got to thinking of how many times I crossed all these borders into Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland. Even though there are not officials to check my […]

Dear Special Friends, As you look at the photos here of our over 33 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 of 1982 we had […]

Dear Special Friends, We want to wish you a very Special Merry Christmas from Budapest this year. We absolutely love the Christmas Season and are excited about this year, our 18th, Christmas here in Budapest. Well, we knew this day would eventually come.  For the first time ever we will not have our son’s Nathan […]

Dear Special Friend , Where we go to church here in Budapest all the worship is in Hungarian. The rest of the service is translated into English but all the singing is in Hungarian.  We love this. One of the things we have always loved in serving in this part of the world is being […]

September 1,  2014 Dear Special Friends , Albania – During the times of Communism this country was known as one of the most ‘atheistic’ countries in the world.  Being a Christian generally meant persecution or prison. Since the fall of Communism in 1991 many churches have sprung up in the major cities of towns of […]

  Dear Special Friends, Last week I visited the city of Doboj, Bosnia-Herzegovina, a town that just been hit with a major flood after rains that they hadn’t experienced in over 100 years. As I drove into the city, I could immediately see the destruction. Piles of trash everywhere, the army and the police directing […]

Dear Special Friends , When we visit the US people ask us quite often about our personal lives and what it’s like living in Hungary. We are always thrilled to talk about this.  If you have been receiving our letters for any length of time now, we hope you can tell how much we love doing what we […]

Special News From The Nations of Eastern Europe August 1, 2013 Dear Special Friends, Whenever we are back in America and speak at churches, people ask us all the time to not only talk about the ministry we are involved in, but also about our personal lives as missionaries.  They want to know what we […]