LLL: On Life Long Learning

One of my key words is Gratitude. I want to live the Gratitude-filled life. Today, I’m especially thankful for all of you who’ve prayed for DeDe and I during our transition back to the U.S. Our hearts are still divided between Africa and Louisiana, but we have a deepening peace that we’re right where we should be and God’s work …

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End of the Day: Was I true to my 6+ Words?

The Importance of a Daily Review I’m learning. Always learning. I’m committed to being a LLL. A Life Long Learner. About a decade ago, I began the habit of listing keywords for my life. It developed into what I now call my 6+ Words. I adjust or change them from time to time but most remain the same. At the …

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Holding the Rope

  A quick note: Thank you for holding the rope in prayer and encouragement for DeDe and me. Here are three ways to pray: 1.  Pray for two members of our Chadan team that will go to Chad in August. 2.  Pray for continued healing for Curt.  I’m slowly getting better. 3.  Pray for DeDe.  She has been a stalwart …

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Irony, Solitude, Vocation, and Bob White Quails

The Week that Was It was more than ironic. I spent two days in the culinary capital of the United States: New Orleans. And I have no appetite for their wonderful seafood, soul food, po-boys, and beignets. We saw our doctor(s) at Tulane Medical.  They had “good news and bad news.” Good news: none of the tests show any conclusive …

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Ax Head Soup

  Scroll down for an update on today’s trip to Tulane Medical Clinic.  I was told this story by a South Sudanese. It’s a tale of optimism. The right story to share on the fourth birthday of the world’s newest country, South Sudan. During the worst years of the previous civil war, famine accompanied the violence and displacement. A mother, …

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Happy and Sad

The voice spoke from the desert darkness, “Pick up stones and you will be happy and glad.”   There’s a mythical story concerning a trading caravan traveling through the Sahara Desert. After a long day, they camped in a wadi, a dry river bed. About midnight, the travelers were startled by a loud voice, “Pick up stones and you will …

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Update: From Louisiana

  Sojourn:   a temporary stay.   Friday,  3 July    You’ve held the rope by praying! DeDe and I have been traveling since Tuesday night. Here’s a quick update: -We left Uganda at midnight on June 30. (Our time zone there is 8 + hours over CDT).  On the flights, my system held up pretty well.  I firmly believe …

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Walking with the Spirit of Esther

A word from Curt This week is a time of adjustment.  Instead of trekking into South Sudan, we’re packing to go to the U.S.  It’s time to get rid of Smaug (that’s what I’m calling this dysenteric bug in my gut). I’m processing how I feel about all of this. With your permission, I’ll be sharing transparently this week about …

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Holding the Rope: Sunday, 28 June 2015

So many of you promised to pray when we left for Africa in January 2013. You’ve been so faithful and we thank God for each of you. (Phil. 1:3). Here is a short list of our prayer needs. It’s a short list full of big needs.  Thankfully, we serve a God who is big enough. Due to my ongoing dysentery, …

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Holding the Rope: the knot is tight

  Thanks to all of you holding the rope in prayer for DeDe and I. I especially thank you for the notes and prayers of the last few days. My African Bug (I don’t know what else to call it) is still with me. However, we’ve seen God work today through laying all of the foundation in place for this …

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A Timely Prayer Need from Curt and Dee

A serious prayer need. You can call me Lazarus. For the past six weeks, I’ve been up and down with a recurring intestinal bug. The doctors haven’t yet been able to diagnose what I have and it keeps coming back. I’m really struggling with this illness again. King Jehoshaphat, in a time of great trial, prayed,  “Lord, we do not …

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“Keep ‘er Between the Ditches.”

  A word from Curt Many of you are praying and holding the rope for us. Thank you. My dysentery bug has left me.  I hope for good. Pray for our trip this weekend to South Sudan.   “Keep ‘er between the ditches.” -Parting words of my friend, Mr. Frank Miller.           We spend lots of …

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The Tribe: Holding the Rope. You can do it!

When you pray, you’re holding the rope. When you pray for our work in Chadan region, you’re not only holding the rope but become part of what God is doing here. Put another way, when you pray you become part of our tribe of reaching the least reached. Thanks for being part of the Creekbank/Chadan tribe. Thanks for holding the …

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The Week That Was: Words and Photos

A week in the life I’ll let these photos of the past week speak for themselves.   2                                   Ugandan school children.       We live astride the main road connecting the Indian Ocean at Mombasa, Kenya and the vast interior of Africa. …

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