Hello friends, I hope you are doing well and enjoying the cooler autumn temperatures. I have been back stateside for almost a month now and am almost finished with my quest to enjoy all the foods I do without most of the year. But on the flip side of that I get to experience some new and different foods in … Read More
EC in Guatemala
This week a team of six people from Birmingham Community Church are traveling down to Guatemala and the village of San Juan Moca. This is the place where we provide scholarships for children to be able to continue their schooling. They are working with our friend Pastor Rafael to promote a pastor’s conference we will help lead later this year. … Read More
Summer Update
This has been a very busy spring season for the English Connection and there will be no slowing down as we gear up for the summer camp season. We were busy with promoting camps in schools, helping make plans for the summer camps in Czech, and traveling to other countries in Europe to begin or continue partnerships. God is doing … Read More
Why I Raise Support
The first international mission trip I ever participated in was to Moscow, Russia, in March of 2001. My parents had run into an old friend of ours named Greg Smith who was taking some people to work with the Good News Baptist Church in Moscow and they told me I should talk to Greg about going. I had a valid … Read More
Thank You Cucumbers
One day this past summer I was heading out of Prague to do my last couple of projects. I was planning to meet a friend at the main train station in Prague and we were going to travel to the first camp together. Before catching our train we were going to rendezvous with this couple who had been in Prague … Read More