Missionary Blogs

Our Education Mission Team has been apart for many months now. And we have missed each other. So, it was time for us to get up and running again, even if we met virtually ... read more

A Global Mission Prayer Cycle was published by the Global Episcopal Mission Network last week.  It’s posted in the Resources section of the GEMN website. Designed to lift up before God the global mission work ... read more

Below is my report on the 2020 activities of the Global Episcopal Mission Network that I posted a week ago to the GEMN website.  It may be of interest to those who don’t frequent that ... read more

The memorial service for the Rev. Canon Sally Suzanne Peterson, 72, missionary of the Episcopal Church and former member ... read more

Welcome to brief (17 minutes) Morning Prayer! Today’s conversational reflection is on Luke 22:54-69, Peter denies Jesus and Jesus before the Council. (Click on Morning Prayer above to go to a link where you ... read more

Welcome to brief (under 10 minutes) Morning Prayer! Today’s conversational reflection is on Isaiah 25:6-9, the great feast on God’s holy mountain, and it’s making us hungry. (Click on Morning Prayer above to go ... read more

Welcome to brief (under 12 minutes) Morning Prayer. Today’s conversational reflection is on Luke 21:1-4, the widow’s offering. Is she generous? taken advantage of? These four verses give us a lot of food for ... read more

I am sending you “all the freshest news fit to print” with this blog post. This afternoon, I attended the Lanzamiento del Ano Escolar 2020-2021, the official opening of school programs in the Diocese ... read more

My father passed on a couple of lessons that “stuck”. A person has to keep her/his promises, he insisted. So, I said at some point in these postings that I would update you about the ... read more

On Wednesday April 1st, I woke up to the news that Muttrah had been identified as the epicenter of COVID-19 in Oman and would accordingly be isolated from the rest of the country until further ... read more

Hello all! I hope you are well. I have now been officially home for 2 weeks, and since I am exhibiting no symptoms, I am out of quarantine! Quarantine at home meant I mostly stayed ... read more

Well, as I promised in my last blog post, I have come home from South Africa. If this is news to you, you can read all about why and how I came to that decision ... read more

Hello all! I’m afraid the title says it all. I’ve decided that given the state of the world that it makes the most sense for me to come home. I’m so glad the decision to ... read more

Fifty days ago, I woke up to the news that my neighborhood Muttrah had been identified as the epicenter of COVID-19 in Oman and thus would be isolated from the rest of the country until ... read more

I have been back in Oklahoma for about a month now. I have been really enjoying my time at home, but I think ... read more