Dear Pastors, Friends and Family,
April 1, 2026 (Feb. – Mar. ’26)

Greetings in Jesus’ Name & Happy Spring! We’ve continued traveling on furlough these last two months, visiting some churches and seeing family. All has gone well though we have experienced a few losses that we will explain below. Mary celebrated her birthday in February, and a church we were attending for their mission conference made her a cake. The last two months we have traveled for meetings in Colorado, Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio and West Virginia. For the churches we can’t visit that have expressed interest in us coming, we will be sure to put them at the top of the list for our next furlough. We have tried to spend time every month visiting family. Mary’s mom is stable but still bedridden on hospice. Mary’s oldest brother passed away a month ago. Praise the Lord that he made a profession of faith in Christ for salvation shortly before dying. We are excited to return to the mission field of Mexico City soon. We have had several churches and individuals who want to come to visit us there. We love having visitors, yet we are also praying for more (permanent) laborers … Read More »

Dear Pastors, Friends and Family,
February 1, 2026 (Dec. ’25 – Jan. ‘26)

Greetings in  Jesus’ Name & Happy New Year!  We trust you all had a Merry Christmas.  Thank you for your prayers & support, as well as for the extra that some gave to us for Christmas.  Mary & I celebrated our 37th wedding anniversary in December.

One blessing of being on furlough is visiting family, especially for special holidays like Christmas.  In the last couple months we have been in Ohio, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Colorado. We have enjoyed seeing family and being in some supporting churches & a couple new churches.  What an encouragement to see God at work in so many good churches.  We miss Mexico very much, but it was great recently to be in one of our supporting churches and then the same day to be in their Spanish church.  As we travel during this furlough, we have seen so many more hispanics that have arrived in the U.S. in the last several years.  We love witnessing to them though many hispanics here have becomed “Americanized” and less receptive to the gospel, due to the money & benefits received in the U.S.  It is … Read More »