Our years in Pemba have been tumultuous, intense, filled with demonic attacks, violence, threats, opposition from the government, discouragement, theft, loss, disappointments, failures, staff turnover, and the constant, unrelenting demands of extreme poverty and disease all around us. It almost always seemed that …
First, here’s a Facebook quote written by one of our staff members. Dawn Wilk: Feeling very thought provoked after our staff meeting today… There I was, sitting in a room full of people who were just resurfacing from massive flooding; people who have lost their homes, friends, husbands, wives, chi…
We love video newsletters, but we also want to communicate more verbally and thoughtfully as well. For this reason we will start again to send out written newsletters along with more still/video galleries. Recently I completed a Doctor of Ministry project titled, “TOWARD A BIBLICAL ‘STRATEGY’ OF MISSION: THE EFFE…
Dear friends of Iris around the world, We in Iris continue to face more need, challenge, opposition, helplessness and perplexity than we can bear, yet daily God shows up and we soldier on. We are jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us (2 Cor. 4:7). We often feel under grea…
During this Thanksgiving holiday season God’s glorious love is being poured out on the poorest of the poor, and we want to thank you for your part in remembering the least of these! Here are two more Iris Media videos. In the first, Iris Missionary Lyle Phillips shares a few of the stories of rescuing over …
One picture is worth 1,000 words, and we want to invite you to come and experience the beauty of God’s goodness in our lives in Mozambique. We have created an Iris Media team to produce video updates that will be posted on our website so we can celebrate the goodness of God together. God is on the move, as H…
Travel by Iris Air! Thursday, July 22. It’s been a peaceful flight so far, flying at 10,500 feet westward toward Malawi from Pemba on our first long trip in our new Kodiak. The air is smooth, the sky cloudless. Our passengers are reading or dozing in relatively spacious comfort. We are covering a three-da…
Outreach!
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, February 16! Time for outreach again! We do this every week! And we take all our visitors, ready or not, on the Iris version of an African bush safari, hunting for souls and the glory of God.
Packing starts early in the day. Tents, sleeping bags, headlamps, bug spray, water …
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 »