Aura and I have been in the ministry in Portugal since 2004. Since 2013, we are church planting missionaries to the country of Portugal, sent by Narragansett Bay Baptist Church, in Warwick Rhode Island. We are currently serving in the center part of Portugal, in the city of Castelo Branco. We have never been at […]
April ’17 Prayer Letter
[Click here to download the PDF version of this letter] Aura and I are now back in Portugal after 4 and a half months of furlough. We left Portugal under difficult circumstances. We have been working as a team with Aura’s parents in the city of Castelo Branco since 2014. Not knowing what the Lord […]
“Why are you off the mission field?” The difference between furlough and deputation.
As I write this post, we have been in the US for almost 4 months. We have never stopped being in the ministry, but North America is not our place of ministry. We are missionaries in Portugal. Why, then, are we here? I believe that not everyone understands how missions are funded. There are several […]
February ’17 Prayer Letter
[Click here for PDF version of this letter] During the month of February pastor Todd Stricklin, of our sending church in RI took a 10-day trip to Portugal where he was deeply involved in the ministry that is going on there. I asked him to write a report of what he saw on the field. […]
January ’17 Prayer Letter
[Click here for PDF version of this letter] Praises Thank you for praying for Aura’s mom and her surgery. The surgery went really well and we are encouraged by the doctor’s reports we have been getting. It seems they have been able to get all of the tumor out. They will now have two […]