“Honey, a dumb kickball game is not one of my priorities right now! I have too much to do around here!” I huffed and puffed about this time commitment, and this wife’s heart was anything but submissive. I hung up the phone with my knuckle, since our conversation was had while I franticly tried to […]

The curtain rod fell down on my head as I balanced on a stool for the tenth time that day, all with hyperactive children running all around me a few feet below. I half caught it and then slammed it down on the stack of boxes below. “I can’t get anything done around here! I […]

We’ve sat in seminars. Visited hotel conference rooms and small group brainstorming sessions. We have been “trained” to be church planters. Don’t get me wrong, these things are good and necessary things, but nothing is quite like the training that trials bring. Since moving to Atlanta, with a vision to plant churches that keep planting […]

**My apologies for the extreme delay in this update…I’ve been very busy…busy cleaning up potty accidents, and putting out sibling rivalry fires, and cleaning more dishes and doing more laundry than one can keep track of. I wish I had something “more significant” as an excuse, but every load of laundry is a Kingdom investment […]

I had dragged little people down there at 8pm, with sleeping bags, a paintbrush, and a large cup of coffee in hand. We made makeshift beds for them on the carpet padding, and then got to work.   Always fighting back panic with song. But the panic gained ground. and gave way to panicked pleading. […]

It had been another frantic Sunday morning. If I had lain the children’s clothes out the night before, we wouldn’t have had battles over mismatching clothes. Help me, Lord.  If I had trained my kids better about putting shoes away in their shoe bins, we wouldn’t have spent 20 minutes franticly looking under couches and […]

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… […]