“Lord? What is all this for?” Our house, positions, materialistic possessions? Will this not all be nothing but waste in 10, 50, 100 years?” My head spun the ideas of comfort, predictability, security on a record over and over again. I had gone to Japan February to visit my dear friend Johnson and his wife Cierra in Ibiraki-shi. While there, I found myself at a common event, a DTS graduation. During that ceremony, a phrase challenged me to my core. A phrase that would echo in

S ix months have come and gone and with it, so many of our completed goals for 2025. This past year has been filled with incredible opportunities both foreign and domestic and following the course the Lord has laid out has been nothing short of exciting, constructive, and eye-opening. S ince the first trip to Japan years ago, we’d anxiously prepared for our family’s first journey abroad. The time came and we headed eastward from LAX (Los Angeles INT Airport) to Osaka, o

Sunset in Takatsuki, Osaka Almost 2 years have gone by since the day Johnson and I first landed in Japan, and in just 24 hours, this...

Expectations vs reality is a hard pill to swallow. Going into this new adventure of family missions has forced me/us to realize a hard...