January 2020: Taking Our Light & Saltiness to a New Level
The new year is generally accompanied with hope and great expectations. I try to be optimistic and look at a new year (and new decade) as a fresh start. 2020 is going to be a great year…or is it? As optimistic as I’d like to be, I’m also a total realist. Things just keep getting […]
December 2019: Ministry Update
I am so thankful for what God is doing through TREC in Cuba and Nepal. We have said since the inception of TREC that what God has called us to do is way bigger than Trudy, and myself, and our faithful Board of Directors. God is doing amazing things through the TREC Staff and you, […]
November 2019: Thank You from the Bottom of our Hearts
We tell you over and over how vitally important your work is in helping us reach the unreached, but we can’t thank you enough! There is not one part of the body that is greater than the other, and we all work together to accomplish our purpose which is to share the Good News with […]
November 2019: Ministry Update
I remember the first time Trudy and I went to India in 2002. Man, seems like a long time ago. On that mission, I remember talking to Roscoe Brewer of EPIC International about unreached people groups. He explained that you can classify the unreached in several different ways: by geography, by language, and by occupation. […]
October 2019: Ministry Update
It has been pretty crazy around here…which isn’t unusual right before Jeff leaves on a mission, but a kidney stone wasn’t how we wanted to start the week. None the less, it’s how it started and not even a kidney stone can stop Jeff from his assignment. We’ve learned that if you just keep pressing […]
September 2019: The Church in Action
A few weeks ago, Sanjeep, our partner and friend in Nepal, called with a request. He told us that he was traveling to a remote village in Nepal that was unreached with the Gospel. He wanted to start working there and, noticing that the village people were very poor, he wanted to buy rice, lentils, […]
September 2019: Ministry Update
Developing small businesses for pastors in Nepal and Cuba is one of the key elements of what we do at TREC. It is very easy to develop relationships with international pastors and provide them financial support on an ongoing basis, but in doing this we create what you’d describe as “Christian Welfare.” These pastors and […]
August 2019: What’s Your Why?
I love the word purpose. Websters defines it as “something set up as an object or end to be attained.” To me, nothing defines our purpose more than Matthew 28:18-20: “And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of […]
July 2019: Fishers of Men
There is so much that I love about the picture above that Jeff took of these guys fishing on the Malecón in Havana, Cuba. I love the silhouette of the fishermen; the dark against the light. I love the lighthouse in the background, and El Malecón itself, a bulwark, which is five miles of seawall […]
June 2019: Cuba in the News
If you’re following along in the news, and believe me I totally understand if you’re not, you know that President Trump has placed tighter travel restrictions on Cuba. This is in an effort to stop Cuba’s communist government from helping Venezuela’s communist government. As soon as the news broke about these restrictions, we began getting […]