What a wonderful week of fellowship, learning, and encouragement we shared together at Baraka Bible School! With over 100 children, teens, and adults in attendance, we were blessed to welcome brothers, sisters, and friends from Newfoundland, Rochester, Baltimore, Kansas City, Windsor, London, Montreal, Quebec City, Paris, and Cambridge. continue reading

While chatting with me a few months ago about our yearly pastoral visit, Sister Cynthia Paiva de Lopez suggested that Brother Dennis Paggi and I fly to Oaxaca this year to meet them there rather than go to our usual destination in the Guadalajara area. Oaxaca is almost as far south as you can go in Mexico, and quite near to Central America. In the last few years, there have been several baptisms of brothers and sisters from the Oaxaca area, two of whom I saw baptized during my visit in 2024: Brothers Emilio and Antonio, father and son. That same year, two sisters from Oaxaca also flew up to participate in the study weekend– Sisters Yolanda and Rocio. Cynthia felt it would be nice to support them all and see if we could generate more interest in the area by holding a study weekend, so we could advertise and by doing some advertising in the area beforehand and to invite interested friends. continue reading

Working on the plans for this summer’s Truth Corps program truly brought to mind the words of Proverbs 19:21 “Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." We had a number of unanticipated complications in scheduling, and travel paperwork that led to a pool of ten applicants being reduced to three team members! continue reading