Just the other day I was reading in Exodus 22:23-24: “Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. My anger will be aroused and I will kill you with the sword,; your wives will become widows and your […]

My uncle, Bill Iverson, (the guy who built the water purification systems we took to Japan) just wrote this email to me and I decided to edit and  post it because I really saw this in Japan and see the need more than ever for real Gospel Community centered Church planting in the Tohoku area… […]

Here I make some confessions, very humbling ones, that expose the twistedness of my heart….the other night I spent three hours (into the wee hours of the morning) working on putting another blog post up and then perusing a bunch of other people’s blogs…that was three hours compared the the groggy 30 minutes that I […]

In this Video Rev. Mori from Global Mission Chapel in Iwaki talks about how God has protected His church even though they are only 18 miles from the nuclear reactor. When he was asked why he was not leaving his community like many of the other government and business elite who did, he responded that […]

I have a little book that I started a couple of years ago that, that records funny things my kids say. I always wondered which of my four (and probably many more to come) kids would one day actually take posession of the book, BUT if I put the funny sayings in my blog, like […]

We had ALMOST made it. We were within 28 hours of Daddy’s return when the tornado sirens went off, the thunderstorms rolled in, and I huddled all the kids in the bathroom for fear that a tornado was going to hit. After a little bit, my phone rang, I got busy getting ready for the […]