We received this note from a woman in Hong Kong:I wanted to let you know that I have given your book, Anchor for the Soul, to several inmates in prison here in Hong Kong. I have been visiting prisoners since moving back to Hong Kong last year and have been blessed by it. I visit those with no family—-a Vietnamese (in for m …
We are still in California. After leaving Merced on Monday afternoon, Marlene and I plus Josh and Leah and Nick traveled east, passing through Yosemite National Park for a three-day stay at Mammoth Lakes, a renowned ski area in the winter and a biking, hiking, mountain climbing, skateboarding vacation spot during the summer …
Robin Brooks, a missionary serving in New Zealand, sent me the following story:Tracey is a university student in New Zealand. She claimed to be an atheist, but had some very unusual life goals. One of them was to attend a church sometime in her life. In February, a week before university started, Tracey advertised for a &ld …
Things are winding down in California. Most of the people who flew in for the wedding have left already. We’re hitting the road ourselves in another hour or two. Late last night as I crawled into bed, dead tired, I thought about how impossibly crammed the last four days have been. Our wedding trip has been an unqualif …
The Men at Rooster Ranch This Morning This morning most of the men in the wedding party took a trip to Rooster Ranch, which is located somewhere north of Atwater. We drove past miles of almond groves and fields of sweet potatoes to get there. The website calls it a “licensed upland game bird club located in the confluences …
I am writing this note from the Courtyard by Marriott in Merced, California. We arrived here late yesterday afternoon after a seventeen-hour trip from Tupelo that started at 2:30 AM with a two-hour drive to Birmingham, a flight to Chicago, a lengthy delay at Midway Airport where we met Josh and Leah who had flown in from Ve …
In late April Moody Publishers released Stealth Attack, my new book on spiritual warfare in an age of terror. Soon after the book came out, we decided to add a study guide to make the book more useful for personal study, small groups and for Sunday School classes. Brian Bill wrote most of the questions. Steve Pederson added …
Today is John Sergey’s 90th birthday. Just a few minutes ago I called to wish him happy birthday. I first met John and Helen in 1989 when we moved to Oak Park. Back then he was 72 years old, and he and Helen were still traveling to Russia at least once and sometimes twice a year. In the 1930s God called him to ministe …
A few days ago I posted some pictures from the Anchor Book Depot in Chicago. That day we were shipping books to Dr. Bob Cosby in Logansport, Indiana. Here is an email we received from him this morning:Got the Anchor books the other day and have already had an inmate relate his testimony of having been saved as a result of h …
This is Monday of wedding week. By this Saturday our entire family will be in Atwater, California (in central California, in the San Joaquin Valley, between Modesto and Fresno, more or less due east and over the mountains from San Jose) for the wedding of our son Mark and Vanessa Friesen. Already the westward migration has …