Monthly Archives: May 2014

Do you live in the Houston area and want to learn more about our family’s call to move to Germany to work with Wycliffe Bible Translators?  We would love to tell you all about what God is doing and has done in our lives so far.

Please join us at our home this Sunday, May 18 from 4:00-5:30 to learn more.  If you need directions, please email or call us.

“The Bible in another language is like a leaf floating in a river; it takes a very long time before it absorbs enough water to sink to the bottom…Conversely, the Bible in my own language is like a stone that is thrown into the river—it plunges in and sinks straight to the bottom, it falls right into my heart!” –A mother tongue translator in Asia

[Warning, this post is a bit on the long side—about 50% longer than our normal target length…read accordingly.]

I’ve sat down many times over the last week or so to write the post we last promised you guys—the story of the “when” of our departure coming later this year. However, every time I did so, I couldn’t seem to write that part of the story without first telling you about how I, myself got here, as Miranda did late last year. But my (back)story is sufficiently long that it seemed best to tell it in its own post, so here goes…

There are two streams which have defined my passions—my avocation, if you will—over the last two decades in varying ways: photography and missions. Each has had a profound impact regarding how God has formed my paths during this time.

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