Patience - 1. The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient. Synonyms: patience, long-suffering, resignation, forbearance These nouns denote the capacity to endure hardship, difficulty, or inconvenience without complaint. Patience emphasizes calmness, self-control, and the willingness or ability to tolerate delay: Our patience will achieve more than our force (Edmund Burke). Long-suffering is long and … Continue reading Patience
Mountains
There is something special and quiet that is found when you travel to the mountains. Your cell phone stops working, there is no traffic, and everything about you seems so small. There is a quiet and a peace that is unexplainable. Even though it only lasted for a few hours, my trip to seven falls … Continue reading Mountains
59
Today makes 59 days this Summer that I have been in the wonderful nation of Haiti. It's amazing all that God has been able to do through each missions team that has come through our mission base. Each person who has come has imparted something into the lives of the Haitians as well as been … Continue reading 59
Haiti Week 7
Today makes 7 weeks that I have been in Haiti. All that has been accomplished for God in this nation is amazing. We have moved to a new missions base. Done lots of ministry at orphanages, and visited many schools. It has been so exciting to be in a new home that is very close … Continue reading Haiti Week 7
May 12th

Haiti Trip
Summer Break
It's sort of an oxymoron; at least for my life. Summer break, well it's a break from school, if you consider school just sitting in a classroom listening to a professor. Consider that learning new information and applying experience to that knowledge, then I would have to say that summer really isn't a break from … Continue reading Summer Break
Available
Available, that's all; are you available to do anything? It seems like those what if questions become a reality for my life. If you had to go to a foreign country tomorrow would you be ready? That's a question that was often asked while I was in bible school and going through a missions program … Continue reading Available
Believe it’s possible
I began reading a book this morning by Max Lucado "Out live your life," in just the first few pages I had already started taking notes about the thoughts he was provoking in the text. "Because of him" (xx). There was a story in the book about an island that was changed by one man … Continue reading Believe it’s possible
Atlanta
Sometimes it is difficult to visualize and comprehend how many people there are in the world who are hurting. I just got back to Tulsa from a trip to Atlanta, GA. I was a leader for a group of 8th graders from the high school I graduated from. While we were in Atlanta we did … Continue reading Atlanta
Talent is never enough – John c. Maxwell
All of the thoughts and quotes are from the book Talent is never enough - John c. Maxwell I encourage you to read his book to enhance the gifts and talents that are inside of you. Malcolm Gladwell - the tipping point and blink. Peter Drucker - the father of modern management. What creates effectiveness? … Continue reading Talent is never enough – John c. Maxwell