We were cleared for travel, and fly out Friday morning, tomorrow, to assist and serve a YWAM (Youth with a Mission) Discipleship training...

As Jenny writes her memories of our last 20 years as missionaries in Sarajevo, Bosnia and relives much of the stress and heartache of a n...

As I continue to write my account of what God has done in our lives over the last 20 years, I am astounded at His responses, and sometime...

Life is so easy in the States! Having a washer, and especially a dryer, makes life so much easier! In about an hour, your clothes are f...

You have a new brother in Christ! Morgan, Merle's nephew, came to stay with us for 10 days, and Merle had the privilege to teach and bap...

Things changed for Luke two days before the Crucible. He did something that was unacceptable though rather common, but the timing was ba...

Devla's testimony to honor the Lord Devla's Testimony - While in Kamenari, Montenegro, last summer, Devla (standing in front of the chur...

COVID-19 is a disruption that is affecting everyone. Our calling is to serve internationally and we have been directly affected by the t...

We need you and your prayers for us! Thank you in advance! First of all - THANKS BE TO GOD! Luke is transforming under the pressure of M...

In his book "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten," Robert Fulghum said "Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first wo...

We are so proud of Luke as a defender of our nation - adopted from Russia, raised in Bosnia, and especially since he spent most of his li...

A Devotional I think everyone has heard of the shortest verse in scripture, "Jesus wept." There are many comments, even in scripture, li...

We are witnessing so much anger and frustration in our country; perhaps it is exacerbated from being quarantined at home for so long. We...

"Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world." Isaiah 12:5 As COVID-19 affected the world, we w...

What am I trying to accomplish with my life and eventually with my book: To Glorify God with the things he has done in our lives to insp...

Decimation - that is the only way to describe the condition of the Abacos in the Bahamas. Merle returned from spreading the love (disaste...

Merle went with Samaritan's Purse to Man-o-War Cay and Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands, Bahamas, to help with clean-up and repair to some ...

A Devotional Reading the Lord Jesus' words this morning in Matthew 6 & 7, reminded me again of some action points: * Hypocrites - don't b...

Last Christmas, we were in St. Lucia and we REALLY missed our kids when they all got together, while Merle and I were so far away. So we...

A Devotional Merle telling the Christmas story to children and adults in our home in Sarajevo. December 2011 At the beginning of Psalm 78...