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Vision Oriented and Budget Limited
A budget minded person would tell my wife to suck it up – new appliances are expensive!
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Our Long Term Plans
I find that when I talk to people about what we’re doing, some confusion still exits. I don’t like confusion and I’m sure you don’t either so let’s pick up…
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June 2020 Newsletter
Sometimes I just shrug my shoulders and decide that I really don’t have to understand my children, just love them.
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Gutter Gardens
Not that I’m opposed to gardening. Why just the other Saturday I was weeding my gutters. It’s hard to argue with your wife about the need to clean the gutters…
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Tools of the Trade
I never owned a proper tool box before two years ago. I would just go out in the shop and forage for tools like a gazelle grazing on the savannah.
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We Own A Toddler Sized Swimming Pool with A Self Cleaning Feature
Elliot gets annoyed because we won’t let him enjoy his swimming pool in peace.
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April 2020 Newsletter
MMS Aviation has also been closed until May 1 since it’s considered a non-essential business under the Ohio governor’s stay-at-home-order. This means that, because I’m married to an industrious woman,…
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Finding Peace Despite Quarantines and Peppa Pig
With any luck, our children will seem way more sophisticated than their parents. I guess that’s what every parent hopes for, really.
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Everything is Canceled
If you read the last blog post, you would know that our whole family was planning to go to Zambia. The tickets were bought, the passports were received, and God…
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God, the Travel Agent
I didn’t expect this to happen. In April I’m headed to Zambia on a Rapid Response trip (you would’ve known this if you had read our newsletter… here). What’s a…
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February 2020 Newsletter
When you allow God to use you in whatever way He wishes, suddenly you’re a gear in a much larger machine and you find that the torque you apply to…
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Zambia, Elliot’s Melon, Family Priorities, Etc
I know people of faith pray more because living by faith requires God’s constant intercession. So does living stupidly.
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You Can’t Outrun A Game Camera
Halfway through my shower I was lathered head to toe in cheap body wash when the shower abruptly stopped. The water supply had run out! Matt must have forgotten to…
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Over the River and Through the Woods…
It’s funny but when you move away from home it feels like everything should stay the same until you come back. It doesn’t.
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December 2019 Newsletter
I have never felt more stupid than I did in the first six months of my apprenticeship.
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Thanksgiving in the Most Redneck County in America
In fact, Coshocton County has been voted the most redneck county in America! Local rumor has it that Dale Earnhardt Jr. owns hunting land in the county and this helped…
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New Apprentices, Dirty Toothbrushes, Nice Dentists
Janice shrieked, ran across the ceiling, and yanked the toothbrush out of Adi’s astonished hands.
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Hiking and Reminiscing
We found ourselves in a little apartment in a border town in Thailand with stacks of bread in the garage.
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October 2019 Newsletter
Right now I’m helping to rebuild a 4 seat Bearhawk that’s owned by an Indiana farmer. He keeps the plane in Haiti where it’s used to support an orphanage.
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Video: Did You Know…
Did you know Americans spend more on Halloween costumes for their pets than Christians spend on reaching unreached people groups?
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New House, New Friends, Good Advice
The cows are friendly and seem willing to talk (they even yell rudely across the street sometimes) but they don’t drink coffee and so there isn’t a great excuse to…
