India: Day Three – Saturday

Pastor’s and Ministry Workers Conference:Some traveled from as far as three hours by bus! This morning we ate breakfast with a widow and her daughter. Two years ago she lost her husband and was suddenly unable to take care of herself and her daughter.  Through the ministry Pastor Samuel has she receives monthly support, enough [...]

India: Day Two

Shopping Trip Earlier Jay wrote about our shopping trip so I will spare you the details of it with the exception of telling about a couple of the young kids we saw working atthe fabric store. I noticed one of the kids was standing very close to me for a long time but when he [...]

India: Our First Day on the Ground

Our first full day on the ground has been eventful and in some ways exhausting. Thirty-six hours in airports and airplanes with 5 flights tends to take it out of a person. And watch out for the fruit in the yogurt. Actually it wasn’t a piece of fruit, it was a pepper that looked like a cherry [...]

Our India Flights Are Booked!

Four years ago a group of men from the Big Timber Evangelical Church went to Bridge City, Texas with the purpose of helping another church recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Rita. In the process they met Pastor Samuel Karunanithi, a native of India and the Pastor of Living Word Church. In 2006 and [...]

We can do better!

Medical Ward room at Provincial Hospital, Tagbilaran.   We can do better.  Near the end of my Philippine trip I had the opportunity to visit and photograph 2 hospitals and 1 clinic in Bohol.  One hospital was privately owned, the other a government hospital and a government clinic.  It was quite an experience!  The hallways [...]

Musings from Deb

Our January, 2010 trip to the Philippines is only a memory now….but what an experience it was! Thanks to our great God. Denny & Ellen, Roy & Cheryl, Jay, Jane, Jeane, Justin, Josh & Mery, John, Marv, Randell, and Tom—I appreciate each one of you very much. Only the good Lord can create such a [...]

Aquaculture Project Update

 Montana on a Mission = Aquaculture Project Report February 5th, 2010   Since 2004, Montana on a Mission has come along side of the people of Calunasan Sur and helped them with some of life’s basic needs: like drilling a well for fresh water or fixing a leaky roof or pouring a concrete floor instead [...]

Home Blessed Home

  Woman from barrio "Concepcion" collecting fresh water to haul back to her home.   After two amazing weeks in Thailand and The Philippines we are back home in Montana. We all know in our heads how lucky we are to live here in the U.S. We have a standard of living that is unmatched, [...]

Medley

We just returned home last night and we’re struggling to readjust to our home timezone.  I seems we were just becoming compatible with Philippine time and it was time to leave.  In fact, the trip was entirely to short.  Ok, enough complaining already One of the qualities that I’ve noticed on every trip is the [...]

Books!

  Monday we delivered the teacher resource books and textbooks to the school. It looked like it might rain so we unloaded the books on the covered ampitheater area. Immediately the kids came running from the playground to see what we were doing. They helped unload the boxes full of books and proceeded to choose [...]

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