Author: jim

Dear Special Partner, As I write this note to you we are sitting here in the living room of our house here in Budapest. We are just talking about how blessed we are to have people like you that stand with us in all we do. We are thinking back 21 years ago when we…

Dear Special Friends,   Right now we are loving our time in the USA.  We are getting to see family, friends, spend time with our kids and grandkids, also speaking at some wonderful churches, enjoying some wonderful Mexican food plus even taking a little vacation with just the two of us.     This is…

Hello Special Friends, Blessings from Budapest once again. Sometimes i wish you could be with me here as we minister and talk to some of the amazing leaders we work with. If you were with me you would hear story after story of how people’s lives are being transformed through some of these local churches…

Dear Special Friends,   Brenda is very involved in the local church here in Budapest. She goes to both Hungarian and English “Life Groups” where she connects with people in the church.   So even though we are missionaries and work with churches throughout Eastern Europe, we attend local churches here in Budapest.   Even…

Dear Special Friends, Wow…Welcome to year 2018! It was 36 years ago today that we started our lives as missionaries.   We remember so well that day when we got on an airplane in Miami to fly to San Jose, Costa Rica. Wow, January 1982. We could never have imagined all the amazing things that have…

Dear Special Friends, Merry Christmas once again from Budapest, Hungary. We love the Christmas Season. This will be our 21st Christmas here. We will have our two daughters with us here for Christmas. When we look back on this year its been so amazing to see all that has happened in this part of the…

Wow, its Fall already.  People used to tell us as that as we grow older the years will seem to pass faster. I guess in someways that’s been true. We look at our children lives and see both of our boys now in their 30’s we find ourselves thinking back where we were living at their…

Dear Special Friends, This year once again we will celebrate the 4th of July, Independence Day here in the US. It’s been wonderful for us to spend a few weeks in the USA with our children and getting to see our families and also minister at some churches. FAMILY . . .While you are reading…

Dear  Special Friends, One of the things we never get tired of is sitting down with the pastors of the churches we have helped to start and hearing some of the great stories of how God has moved inthese churches that we have helped start in the past fifteen years. This happened just this morning. …