November 30, 2009 - —
In the West, our 2009 liturgical year has come to an end. Going to church from Sunday to Sunday, it's hard to make the connection. Hopping from dot to dot, it's difficult to connect the dots - hard to realize that there is indeed movement in the Christian church's liturgy. This past Sunday, Advent Sunday, we were to be celebrating the triumph of Christ and his church, the eschatological hope on which our Christian faith is founded.
Advent, as the Latin implies, is a building of anticipation towards the coming of Christ, the ...
November 05, 2009 - —
The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few ... Mt. 9:37
On behalf of our African family of faith, Mimi and I thank you for your prayers and for your support of our 2009 mission to the beautiful and needy people of Africa. Once again, our summer was jammed full of Bible teaching in churches and in classrooms. With heartfelt thanks for your help, here are just a few mentions of God's work amongst us this summer:
Mentoring our 6 resident African faculty members teaching Old and New Testament classes and assisting them as ...
October 06, 2009 - —
Mimi and I invite you to join us at our home church for an awesome evening of African music. Afrizo, a student choir from Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya, will present a concert on Friday, October 30th from 7:30-8:30 PM in the Chapel at Houston's First Baptist Church. The concert is free of charge.
The church is located at 7401 Katy Freeway, Houston, TX 77024 in the southwest corner of the interchange between I-10 (Katy Freeway) and I-610 W (West Loop). For directions click this link, or call 713-681-8000.
Please come and ...
September 18, 2009 - —
Mimi and I thank God that we live in a growing family of faith. While in Houston, we enjoy our local church family, Houston's First Baptist Church, and we walk more closely with our Bible study family, Oikos.
Each weekday in Houston, I live life with our Houston Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary families - students, faculty, and even administrative types. Our Greek and Hebrew babies are nearby, and many are now all over the world; some are serving our Lord far from home.
Our HaMoreh family is busy ...
August 05, 2009 - —
Reflecting on another summer in East Africa, I am reminded that there are ghettos, and there are ghettos.
Most of the African news that reaches our Western evangelical ghettos is bad - very bad. In 1994, a million murdered in Rwanda in 100 days - more people slaughtered more rapidly in the Rwandan genocide than at any other time in history. Forty thousand bodies flowed down the Kagera River into Uganda's Lake Victoria. In 1983, the Second Sudanese Revolution yielded 2 million Sudanese dead, and another 4 million driven into refuge ...
July 01, 2009 - —
Dear Ones, Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa. We hope that you and yours are well and that y'all are enjoying a refreshing summer season. To update you, Mimi and I lost a few days to illness in Kenya last month but are gladly back on schedule. Thank you for your prayers. Mimi and I are well again and ministering with a group of our HBU biblical language graduates, now living here in Africa. We are proud like parents! We all wake up in the book of Acts, live with Christians "faithing it" like in the book of Acts, encounter God at ...
June 18, 2009 - —
Like each and every time before, we didn't have enough time to pack, didn't get done all that we had hoped to in Houston, didn't say good-byes to all those we dearly love, didn't feel like we were ready upon arrival, but God continues to care for us wonderfully each and every day.
Sorry for the long delay in writing. Mimi and I have returned to our hearts' home and are more than well. Our schedule in Nairobi has been crazy busy. Yep ... you can take the American out of America, but you can't take....
Thank you for your prayers ...
May 14, 2009 - —
Dear Ones, Mimi and I thank you for a beautiful, worshipful time at our HaMoreh Benefit 2009. Wow! Over 350 of us joined together as family, praising God, enjoying one another and giving to help our brothers and sisters in Africa - heaven on earth! We thank God for you. Your participation encourages us greatly. Thank you for caring and for sharing so lovingly. HaMoreh received enough in contributions to fund our annual budget for 5 months. That allows us to head home to East Africa early next month with our mission projects funded ...
April 01, 2009 - —
As we prepare to spring back into action in Africa, Mimi and I thank you for your prayers and for your support of our mission to the beautiful and needy people of Africa. Our 2009 summer will be jammed full of Bible teaching in African churches and classrooms. With heartfelt thanks for your help, here are a few mentions of God’s work planned for the remainder of 2009:
Mentoring our 6 resident African faculty members teaching Old and New Testament classes and assisting them as they train younger teachers to follow
Mentoring 5 North ...
January 13, 2009 - —
Mimi and I wish you a hugely blessed 2009. May you and yours be happy.
Mimi and I returned to Houston last week and I am back teaching at HBU for our spring semester. My days are full of Hebrew grammar, the grammar and syntax of the Hebrew text of Amos and the Greek text of Philippians. Last Sunday, I returned to teaching our weekly Bible study, Oikos, at our home church – Houston’s First Baptist Church. The students have made our return to Houston meaningful, in spite of jet lag and the lingering desire to be back in Africa! You ...
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