Last month marked a year since my arrival in Lutsk, Ukraine as a full-time missionary, so I spent some time trying to reflect and analyze the year from a variety of aspects. I looked back at previous blog posts, scanned through pictures, and read letters. I spent some time in thought about the events of the year and the lessons I have learned. Instead…
God is faithful and can be trusted in the deep blessings of life and God is faithful and good and can be trusted in the darkest of valleys. Below is the audio link to the testimony of Rachel Vann (daughter of Charles Leiter) of God’s faithfulness in the midst of a really dark challenge. God…
Integrity in all you do has a foundation of trust in the Lord. The passage below is C.H. Spurgeon commenting on Psalm 62:8. It is rich and practical truth. “Trust in Him at all times.” – Psalm 62:8 Let me commend to you a life of trust in God in temporal things. Trusting in God,…
Dear Springs of Grace Church Family, Hope you can join us tomorrow as we worship together in singing praises to our Lord like “Indescribable”, “At Your Name”, “Cannons”, “Stronger”, “Great I Am”; worship through prayer as we bear one another’s burdens and cheer on the Lord in His purposes, worship through the preached Word in…
Dear Springs of Grace Church Family, I am asking, as many of us as can, to prayerfully consider attending a walk at Planned Parenthood this Saturday morning. I know it is a late notice but John Piper has called the Christian church collectively in our nation to this and I believe it is right. The…
I hope you won’t miss Secret Church this Friday Night – 6:30-midnight. We will be blessed to be taught by Charles Leiter. Charles has richly blessed my life for the past 20 plus years and has been a great treasure to the ministry at Springs for the past 10 years or so. You will be…
We have been away from our study of Hebrews for 2 weeks with a special “camp message” and last Sunday being blessed to have Jared Tabor teach us out of Matthew 4. (If you missed Jared’s message you really will be blessed to listen to it. Our family was taking a few days of vacation…
“Decision” was the theme at our camp for adults with disabilities this year. Forty-seven people with disabilities and 20 of their family members joined our team of volunteers for 6 days of rest, fellowship, small and large group Bible studies, and various activities. We used road signs and rules to name our teams and open the theme of each day’s…
We had a flurry of activity in our rehab center over the last few months and have now officially closed the center until the end of the summer. This week our team is devoted to making final preparations for the camps for adults and children with disabilities that begin next Tuesday. After camps, all of our staff has vacation time before we resume rehab at the end…
It’s been way too long since my last post and so much has happened that it will be difficult not to overwhelm this post with information and pictures! In mid-May, my mom came for a month-long visit. It was a wonderful time of getting to introduce her to our lives, our friends, our work, our church, and our…
