Our Cru News

To our good friends all over the world: may the Lord bless you as we tilt over into 2010 and the new decade and the “teens.”  We thank God for his goodness to us in a fun and interesting year

Here’s a quick round the family update: Steve: I’m doing lots of work with the Sending Team, dealing with issues of how we ensure development for the people as we send them.  Our team has been covering for each other

Steve visited in California with ministry partners at our home church, Richfield Community Church in Yorba Linda, Nov 4-12.  Some great visits and fruitful time making more connections came about through that time.  He enjoyed visits with Andy and other

Thank you all for your prayers for my trip!    Here are some notes I wrote to my office during the trip.  I was originally scheduled to go to Chicago (via Charlotte, NC) then Frankfurt, then Budapest.   —–A quick

Steve is currently in Dallas until Oct 8th to see present and prospective minsitry partners.  We appreciate your prayers that the Lord will lead new people to join our team.  He is connecting with many folks at our church there,

Our son Andy was in Japan this summer for 6 weeks on a mission trip and to visit friends.  His trip began with 2 weeks in an English Bible Camp in Nagano (central Japan mountain area).  The church was sponsored

We have enjoyed having Taketo and Naomi Honma from Japan CCC with us for a few days.  It was great to practice our Japanese and do some fun things with them.  They also took a train trip to Miami to see

After covering over 6000 miles this summer, 18 states plus the District of Columbia, our car is ready for a rest.  And we are too!  We had such a wonderful summer seeing people all over, some where they live and

After a wonderful time enjoying friends from Norway at our home in Orlando, FL, we took off driving cross country towards 2 staff conferences being held in Colorado.  We stayed with special friends we had not seen in a long