Sitting out on the lawn at 6am the morning of our yard sale, Diana held her coffee pensively and mused, “Life is just a bunch of junk.” We could not believe how much stuff we had accumulated over the last 11 years in this house. It covered all the way from one end of the…

To some, this question may seem odd, but many consider mission agencies and all other nonprofit ministries to be a second best option for the Body of Christ. The real work of the Church should be done by local congregations – the only legitimate expression of the Church. Ralph Winter wrote a powerful article in…

The Broken Dreams of Russia “He hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted”With our longstanding dream of returning to Russia coming onto focus, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and theologizing about the concept of dreams. I’m not talking about those dreams we have in the night, but the dreams we have…

I have been working on a special project for a couple of years now, but more intensely over the last several months – the completion of a 30 day “engagement” as I call it for husbands (kind of a cross between a devotional and a mini-course) with the passage in Ephesians 5:25-33 about how to…

Two obvious questions that many will have: what will become of my ministry here through CMU, and what will become of Diana’s ministry through The Potter’s School? As to CMU specifically, I don’t have all the answers. I have been praying for God to provide a means of continuing what I began her back in…

Ever since we were engaged, Diana and I have had Russia on our hearts. We knew somehow, sometime, God would call us back. We even have had for the last several years a large map of Russia and its satellite countries on our den wall. Three years ago Diana was invited to speak at some…