The Vernon Journal

Having lived in Thailand for three years, we’ve become pretty accustomed to some of the odd sights that overseas living has to offer. However, some things still surprise me. Take, for instance, The Ladder Man. We occasionally see these guys around town, but this one happened to be selling his wares in our neighborhood [...]

Our director is off to Singapore tomorrow to teach on the subject “Communicating the Gospel in a Pluralist Context” for Haggai Institute. I have had the privilege to help him prepare for these 8 lectures: we have been working on the powerpoints for months, and intensively over these past two weeks. The time is upon [...]

Still waiting the arrival of our baby girl - have you made your prediction yet? - I have been spending the morning hours (before Lori is up and able to face another day of lugging around a basketball-belly) by reading my news feeds and checking my new favorite social network - facebook.This morning, while reading [...]

I have come across this article a number of times as I have been browsing through various Missionary Blogs on my Google Reader, and wanted to pass it along to any of you who might be interested.
Time has put together a photo journal from a book by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio entitled Hungry Planet. [...]

The Akha Wedding ceremony is a long process, beginning in the wife’s family village and ending in the husband’s family village. The big “wedding” event occurs in the husband’s village with the “Wife Celebration“.
There is a lot to be told about this event, and for Lori and I there is still a lot to be [...]