We are home and safe!!! What an unbelievable journey we have had! We have reassembled as teams who have spent our summers all over the world. God reigns, and is present with us as we worship Him, and spend time in debriefing preparing hearts for their return to this culture, which is much harder than you might think.

While away, we have not been able to read this site or e-mail, so we have much catching up to do. For security reasons, we could not open messages or visit web-sites that could compromise our trip or our the missionaries we worked with. The government there reads all of our messages once opened, and monitors our web visits, and all of our activity. We had "national police" (their version of the FBI) following us and sleeping in the same quarters we slept in. It was a bit unsettling to say the least.

We will share much more as we have time. For now, thank you so much for the prayer support. We would not have survived without it. The spiritual darkness and oppression was so severe that just waking some days and feeling like you could face the world was an enormous effort, and had to be prayed through. Your support has been a huge blessing. I cannot wait to share more.

I love you,

dad