I’m hot and miserable. It’s dark and my feet are aching. I can hardly see where I’m going, slogging through sticky mud and slipping off narrow trails. I can’t recognize anything around me. I’m soaking with perspiration. My eyes are getting blurry from fatigue and jetlag. My head aches. I’m so hungry and thirsty. I…
Dear family, Heidi and I want to communicate with our friends again this Christmas season about what is happening with Iris Global, and what we are learning and experiencing in the Lord these days. We feel extraordinarily blessed by our worldwide ministry family, which has grown faster and larger than we ever ima…
“The human heart is the very throne and citadel of God. When he moves in, heaven begins.” —Sadhu Sundar Singh I want to write about the heart. That’s what determines who we are, what we’re worth to God, what we mean to God—and what we mean to each other. It’s not about who’s the smartest, or the most educated o…
[Every few years I have been re-posting this newsletter I wrote in 2001, and again I would like to remind those interested in the work Iris Global about one of the great catalysts of our ministry—my heritage from my grandfather. During this Christmas season may we delight continuously in the coming of our Savior, …
Hi everybody! A lot of people want to know more about our Iris values and “DNA.” I know I’ve written about these before, but I think in the Lord that it would really help if I sent you this. It’s a very fresh and to-the-point description that is a transcript of an interview I gave awhile ago. May Jesu…
“Though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory” (1 Pet. 1:9). Faith and joy are rare commodities among us, but valuable and precious beyond words. How extraordinary that we chase after other things in…
Twenty years ago Heidi and I landed in Mozambique with a vision: to see what only God could do in the worst circumstances we could find in the world. We wanted to prove that the Sermon on the Mount was as valid there as anywhere. The blessings of the Beatitudes apply not just to the wealthy and sheltered, and thos…
To our worldwide Iris family! This week, like every other week, on Thursday afternoon we piled into my Land Cruiser with four bright-eyed children, joyful Mozambican leaders and friends from around the world uncertain of what they were getting themselves into. We bounced along dusty dirt roads, and even our guide…
I’m hot and miserable. It’s dark and my feet are aching. I can hardly see where I’m going, slogging through sticky mud and slipping off narrow trails. I can’t recognize anything around me. I’m soaking with perspiration. My eyes are getting blurry from fatigue…view »
7 April 2019—Cyclone Idai in Mozambique I’m hot and miserable. It’s dark and my feet are aching. I… More »
4 December 2018—Extraordinarily Blessed Dear family, Heidi and I want to communicate with our fri… More »
25 January 2016—A Pure Heart “The human heart is the very throne and citadel of God. Wh… More »
16 December 2015—A Missionary Legacy [Every few years I have been re-posting this newsletter I … More »
2 November 2015—Five Essential Core Values Hi everybody! A lot of people want to know more about our… More »
12 February 2015—Confidence in Him “Though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though yo… More »
1 February 2015—Onward and upward in Jesus! Twenty years ago Heidi and I landed in Mozambique with a v… More »
27 November 2014—Thanksgiving in the bush To our worldwide Iris family! This week, like every other… More »