Once upon a time there was a mommy lamp and a baby lamp.  (I’m sure he meant ‘lamb’ but said ‘lamp’.)  The mommy lamp made the baby lamp a milkshake and then they went for a walk.  

“Arise, O Lord! Punish the wicked, O God! Do not ignore the helpless! Why do the wicked get away with despising God? They think, ‘God will never call us to account.’ But you see the trouble and grief they cause. You take note of it and punish them. The helpless put their trust in you. You defend the orphans *.

Last night I went to a parents meeting at Luke’s school.  Today and tomorrow the kindergarten classes had (will have) talks presented by folks from CAP.  I am glad his school is doing these presentations to help Luke and other kids be safe, and learn to steps to empower themselves against bullies and predators.  But I am disturbed that he needs this because our world is such as it is.

After almost 2000 years since Christ’s mandate to make disciples of all nations (ethnos, peoples), more than 40% of the world lives among people groups that are unreached or least reached.  

Did you catch that?   We have been at this for 2 millennia and 2/5 of the world is still beyond easy access to the gospel in their culture or language.  Almost 3 billion souls are considered unreached because there is no known indigenous community of believers with enough numbers or resources to take Jesus in word and deed to them.

And yet there is a great promise in Rev 7:9-11 that there will be a great multitude that no one will be able to count, from every nation, tribe, people and language.  this mosaic of people and ethnic groups will stand before the Lamb worshipping the One on the throne who with His own blood has purchased people from every ethnos on earth. (Rev. 5:9). 

This month, Robin and I share about two efforts to reach unreached peoples.  One is in Russia and the other is in a closed country in Southeast Asia.   In Russia we are sending a team to travel from city to city reaching students from various unreached people groups.  We also share some stories of changed lives among unreached peoples in Southeast Asia.

You can either download PDF copy or read on-line by going on-line to our box.net account.

On March 6th, Luke is participating in the 30th anniversary of Jump Rope for the Heart.  If you would like to sponsor him as he raises money for the American Heart Association, you can go to his AHA Jump Rope for Heart page.

We only have one computer at home – my laptop.  (Well we do have my mother’s old mac desktop that she gave us too but the software is so old it doesn’t work.) So when I left last Saturday for a week-long conference, I decided to leave my laptop behind with Robin.   Hence the lack of blog posts.  Also no responses to email and no facebook updates.   I figured I was with those who most needed me and others could call if they didn’t get an answer.   (I also don’t have a gadget like a Blackberry to check email constantly.)

If Dad is putting the kids to bed and there are no clean PJs or pajama sleepers, then church clothes are an adequate alternative…

We have been in our house less than 2 years and we are experiencing yet another plumbing issue.  Luke pointed it out to Robin right before they left for a school party.  Since I had handyman coming over to give us a quote of another plumbing-related issue, we waited at let him look at it.  

Luke – Ben and Ellie said they were stronger than me because they are home schooled.