Today is our travel day. We have a group that left at around 7am and another group that flew out at around 9am. My group had a pretty smooth trip home, but the other group had some challenges as some important items didn’t arrive when expected in Peoria when the...

This was our final day ministering in NYC. We went to Central Park. While we were in Central park we took a little time to visit Trump tower and the Plaza hotel where Kevin McCallister spent so much of his Christmas vacation back in 1992 (movie reference!). Sully and I...

A story wall is an invitation to those who are passing by to come and write out a short story from their lives and literally nail it to a wall. It can be a story of struggles and obstacles. It could be a story from childhood. It could even be...

Today we went to a food and gospel distribution center called 9 Million Reasons. It was a powerful experience. This ministry is lead by a church that meets in Queens. We spent the day running a prayer station, sorting out good and bad fruit, and organizing clothes. I sat with...

Today we went to Washington park. We used world view surveys to start conversations with people. One joy for me was talking to three college students girls from Paris. I was able to show them the Story App on my phone and it really helped because it was in French....

We spent the first couple of hours in the morning worshipping and training for evangelism. The phrase of the morning from Jerry was “You never know what’s on the other side of obedience.” Our first day was spent doing evangelistic prayer. It was a little different than prayer stations, but...

This morning Sully and I found a little NY shop where we could buy coffee and bagels. Later in the day quite a few of us from the team picked up groceries at Trader Joe’s which is walking distance from the hotel. We all went to church together at Times...

An excited group of travelers left for NYC this morning from the Peoria airport. One unexpected treat was meeting a sweet saint from New Castle Bible Church who was traveling on her own to NYC. She was so encouraged to be adopted by our team while we traveled. On arriving...

Today we began by visiting a local village church. The pastor didn’t seem to know how to expound upon the text. Therefore, what we heard came close to the gospel at times, but never really communicated boldly and clearly that there was grace available for sinners. Instead, we heard moralistic...

The highlight of today was getting to travel out to the village home of one of the translators who work with Rachel. His name is Gimba. We were treated so well. He introduced us to his family and many of his friends. We met the village king. I had never...

I had a rough night and spent most of the day at Rachel’s sleeping off some sickness. Rachel’s team was working through some Greek lessons. How exciting is it that these brothers in Jos are learning how to read and understand the original languages so that they can make an...

Today we slept in due to our long day yesterday, and returned to SIL Nigeria to observe Rachel and her team. They were studying 11 different stories in the Waci language to look for similar words/phrases in them that mark certain points in a narrative (I.e in English we use...

Today was a Nigerian holiday- National Workers Day. So, instead of heading to the SIL office, we visited an orphanage called Seeds of Hope. A Nigerian man named Bomshock met us and took us out to East Jos for the visit. Bomshock had an incredible testimony. He barely survived a muslim...

It was another full day in Jos! We broke bread with Rachel for breakfast and headed over once again to SIL to observe and learn about Rachel’s work. We enjoyed a devotional time that the staff holds daily in the morning before any work begins that is focused on prayer,...

Today we got to go into the SIL Nigeria office with Rachel. They currently have over 100 workers there. It was an honor to meet so many servants of God. Many of the workers are native Nigerians. I was blown away by the sophistication of their work. It was like...