an eve of departure
Your prayers are much appreciated as Team Yeshua Big Sky departs early tomorrow morning for South Asia. Lord willing, we shall rendezvous with Carter & Bethany in Qatar. We’ll be traveling many miles by land and over big mountains for the next 6 weeks. It has been a good time of training and preparation here under a big sky in Montana. It’s now time for the next chapter, under a big sky in South Asia.
downtown missoula
Today, Team Yeshua enjoyed a great time of outreach in downtown Missoula. I sent them out to put into practice some of the things we have been teaching them concerning our Lord’s Great Commission. They walked several city blocks with the cross and had not a few conversations about the things of the Lord. Many Gospel tracts went out, as well as a few pairs of fresh socks for some homeless souls.
liberty
This Independence Day, contemplate for a moment the above question? Here in Montana with our Team Yeshua volunteers, I have recently been asking this question of folks we meet in the highways and byways. While pounding some pavement in Madison County with the cross, I stopped to ask this question of a lady sitting outside a bar in the dead-end community of Pony. She replied, “I really don’t care.”
montana spurs
Since arriving in Montana this summer, we have walked about 65 miles of spur off #TheLongWalkUSA main route (including 28 miles of previously “un-walked” pavement in Madison County) and have enjoyed around 73 witnessing encounters. 2 Bibles have gone out, and there has been one encounter with a lost sheep from the House of Israel, a father down by the riverside with his children. We are truly whipping our Team Yeshua volunteers into shape for the high-altitude of Ladakh, and Montana has proven a great place to do it.
cross-walking
The team is headed out to do some cross-walking, along a spur route from Missoula to Seeley where we aim to connect with #TheLongWalkUSA main route as it turned north toward Seeley Lake back during the summer of 2023.
riverfront park
t’s a joy to finally have my wife officially alongside Team Yeshua here in Montana. Saturday, we made an airport run to Spokane, Washington and enjoyed a good time of street ministry. After several days of training concerning the Christian’s responsibility to evangelize the lost, I turned the volunteers loose in Riverfront Park (a great place to preach) while I went to snag Jamie form the airport.
here and back again
It seems like I just got back home to North Carolina, and now, it’s time to go back out again. It’s been said of great adventures “there and back again,” but for us, it seems more like HERE AND BACK AGAIN. I rejoice to announce: God has raised up this year’s Team Yeshua, and we are already seeing doors open in both Montana and South Asia. It’s going to be an incredible summer of ministry. What a blessing to train up young people and to give them a taste of real missions at a literal end of the earth!
nine thousand miles
It’s been NINE THOUSAND MILES of driving over 5 weeks, and I have finally returned home. Much was accomplished for the Word of God and the Testimony of Jesus Christ, and there is much yet to do in preparation for a summer of Great Commission ministry in both Montana and Ladakh. Thank you for your prayers and support.
the israeli backpacker phenomenon
In the 1970’s came the drifter-tourists. Having completed very tense Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conscriptions in very tense times, these individual nonconformists began reacting to the predictable status quo of Jewish life in a land surrounded by enemies who wanted to push them into the sea. They took a break and went trekking!
go through the land and describe it
Much has already happened in 2025, our 23rd straight year of Great Commission ministry and consistent Gospel testimony. The same message we preached in 2003 as I rode a bicycle across America is the same message we preached in 2023 on a long walk across America. It’s the same message we have preached in forty-six foreign countries and it will be the same message next month in #47 …
the breadth of it
Last Friday, I walked the first “breadth” or SPUR off #TheLongWalkUSA main route, carrying the cross and a U.S. flag in distress. While several from our local church joined up with other brethren to lift up voices outside the Planned Parenthood in Asheville, North Carolina, we walked from that death mill to the junction with the Blue Ridge Parkway off US 25, a 6-mile spur.
small things, simple preaching
Greetings, beloved brethren, in the name of the Promised Messiah. His name is JESUS, “for he shall save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). I trust you all enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving with much cause for thanksgiving, and I pray this Advent Season brings you much joy and reflection upon what is most important: JESUS CHRIST IS COMING. That inescapable inevitability has been true since the Garden of Eden, was true that quiet night in Bethlehem, and remains true today. Regardless of when, where, and how America falls, THE FUTURE IS CHRIST. Joy to the world!
victory in Jesus!
Greetings, dear friends! I have a question. It’s the same question the famous Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson asked after the LORD turned his captivity from harsh persecution in Burma in 1826. It’s also the same question the Psalmist asked under inspiration of the Holy Ghost: “What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me (Psalm 116:12)?” Your prayers I requested back in July for wisdom and discernment were all answered with EXCLAMATION. We have much for which to be thankful.
arise and walk
Back on June 25th, we resumed #TheLongWalkUSA from the abandoned barn on Heine Road in Stevens County, Washington. Since, we have logged nearly 300 walking miles with almost 100 Gospel encounters! The walking route has crossed the Columbia River, climbed up and over two mountain ranges (the Kettle Rivers and the Okanogans), slogged into a third mountain chain (the Northern Cascades) and to the summit of Mt. Baker, a big Cascade volcano near the Canadian border …
the last leg resumes
It was a gorgeous day here in the Pacific Northwest, barely a cloud in the sky, but the sun was blazing hot. By evening, we had resumed what we hope to be the last leg of #TheLongWalkUSA, logging 8 miles from the broken barn on Heine Rd. to Main Street in a little “West Virginia Hollow”—esque Washington community called Addy. Still, we remain unclear about the direction, but it felt good to put one foot in front of another …
it shall be reconciled
If Christians took seriously Jesus’ very simple instructions in Matthew 18:15-20 and actually followed them, perhaps 99% of problems in the local church, including those PARADED as doctrinal, would be resolved. Sadly, we don’t follow these instructions, and once strong relationships in ministry sometimes crumble to dust. It’s a sad reality of the Christian life and of Christian ministry and will be so until our Lord returns …
mashiach yisrael chai
MASHIACH YISRAEL CHAI is a Hebrew phrase that translates: THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL LIVES. Indeed, He does. AM YISRAEL CHAI translates: THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL LIVE. Indeed, they do. In our many conversations over the years with Hebrew-speaking lost sheep from the House of Israel, we customarily use these Hebrew phrases to communicate biblical truth
a time of war, a time of peace
We recently returned from nearly five weeks on the ground in Israel during a time of war; and yet for us, it was a time of great peace in which God’s grace and provision abounded. Thanks for all your prayers. I have been to Israel five times over the years and have traveled nearly every corner between Dan and Beersheba and from Metula to Eilat. All over, we have declared the true hope of Israel, the Gospel of the Kingdom and the person and work of the Messiah. This last journey, however, proved to be the best
a long london layover
En route to Israel, Eric and I had a long 11-hour layover in London … ON PURPOSE. I want to share about some of the encounters from that cold and rainy day. Simply put, we took the train from Heathrow into downtown, walked about an 8-mile circuit that started near the site of the Smithfield burnings during the time of Bloody Mary. Many saints were burned at the stake for their allegiance to the Word of God at this spot.
hiatus no more
HIATUS NO MORE … please pray for us.. In less than a week, Eric and I will be leaving for ISRAEL. By God’s grace, we shall be in the Land for a month and hosting at least two teams of volunteers from our local church. Word on the ground is that the present conflict has opened many doors of opportunity for the Word of God