Reaching the EAST

Since the beginning of our marriage we have always seen ourselves living abroad and serving God in the Eastern World.  During our travels to Asia and the Middle East in the past year,  God has put it on our hearts again to pursue moving in this direction.  While in places like Indonesia, China, and India [...]

Reaching the World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glcfeAyBk1c

Pictures of Germany

72 hours of Hell

When traveling like we have there are many wonderful things that we get to experience and see but every once in a while we face some very lonely and hard moments. After ministering in Norway we made arrangements to meet a friend of ours in Germany. Traveling day for us are usually hard [...]

Beautiful Norway

While in Norway we were able to be apart of a University ministry lead by a team of wonderful people Courtney, Brett, and Kelly.  It was amazing to see a healthy and growing ministry started just a little over 2 years ago!  One of the team leaders we served, encouraged, and prayed with was Kelly [...]

Stockholm, Sweden

After a wonderful ministry time in Italy working with Nigerian/Italian Kids and speaking at the International Church in Padova.  We went to the cold great north to work with University students and ministries in Sweden and Norway.  In Sweden we served with the Zarns Family and in Norway with Kelly Larson.  We were there for [...]

Head Shoulders Knees and Toes

Here is Jessica teaching the Kids one of my favorite songs during our time teaching the after school program in Padova, Italy
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes…Knees and Toes

One of the ministry here in Padova is teaching Nigerian/Italian kids English.  You might be asking, Why are they doing that? Well, here is why:
There are many refugees [...]

Our Day trips to the Venice, Florence, and Rome

From where we are in Italy…it is fairly inexpensive to pack your lunch and do day trips to the great sites like Venice (20 min by train from Padova), Florence (2 hours) and Rome (4 hours).  On our days off or free time we had we would wake up early in the morning and just [...]

We arrived in Italy and have been working hard

For the last two weeks we have been serving and ministering in Italy with Steve and Patti Gray.  They have a church in Padova, Italy (about 20 mins, by train, from Venice).  It has been really cool to hear theirs stories from their 10 plus years of experience with international churches in Italy.  They have [...]

The Night we stayed in the Frankfurt Airport (Germany)

We flew into Germany on a late thursday evening and our next flight to Italy wasn’t until 6 am….so we “slept” in the airport…kind of….
10:57 PM
Just arrived at the airport

1:37 AM
Here is Jessica sleeping in a chair at the airport

2:15 AM
the cleaning crew arrives

2:45 AM

3:15 AM
Catch the shuttle to Ryanair – airport an hour away [...]