News from the
Mission Field

It was truly wonderful for us to spend the mid-winter recess with the brethren in T&T.  First stop was Mt. Grace, Tobago where bro. Angelo delivered the words of exhortation. Tobago has a Radio program for 15 minutes on 2 Sundays per Month and a TV Prime Time half-hour program 4 times per month. continue reading

There are times when an airline will surprise us. In our outward journey to St. Lucia on 11 January 2025 we left Toronto a little late but arrived 30 minutes early! The disadvantage of arriving early was that we had to wait for our taxi ride down to the CBMC apartment in San Souci a suburb of Castries, the nation’s capital. We quickly settled into the routine of daily life in St. Lucia, contacting members of the Ecclesia and friends within a day or two of our arrival. One of the advantages of having visiting missionaries is that the Memorial Service can be conducted in person rather than the members attending Kitchener-Waterloo Ecclesia via Zoom. continue reading

I arrived in Costa Rica after an overnight “red-eye“ flight to participate in the 2024 Costa Rica Bible School. Brother Alex Alfaro picked me up and took me straight to the ecclesial hall where everyone had gathered to organize before leaving for the campground. It was nice to meet up with some of the Costa Ricans, as well as meeting some of the Panamanians for the first time. continue reading

This past July 2024, Brother John and I, along with our three children (Boaz, Phinehas, and Hezekiah), traveled to Guyana for a few weeks to help support some of the preaching efforts in Guyana. Brother Rafeek, Sister Rose Soolaman, and our nephew Zarath also traveled with us. One of the main projects for this trip was to run a Vacation Bible School and outreach in the village of Kilcoy. continue reading

We recently embarked on a mission trip to visit two Congolese families in Green Bay, WI, and one isolated brother in Wausau, WI. Our primary goal was to assess their physical and spiritual well-being and encourage them to consider relocating to Des Moines, IA, where a Swahili-speaking ecclesia is present. continue reading

There are two Bible Schools in Central America, at the end of each year, one in Costa Rica and one in El Salvador. Each year, on an alternating basis, one of the two countries hosts a larger, international school, inviting brothers and sisters from neighboring countries to participate, while the other does a smaller school, mainly for the members of that country. This year it was El Salvador’s turn to host the smaller Bible School. continue reading

Can you imagine spending thirty-two years in prison? Or any time in prison? For most of us, this is not a typical life experience. In early August I visited Trinidad and Tobago (TT) to attend the Ecclesial Bible School. One of my wishes was to finally visit Bro. George Constantine in the Maximum-Security Prison. My dad and mom met him in prison several times and I was moved by the depth of the letters he would regularly send them. So, I was thankful on this trip that my mom and I had been granted the opportunity to spend forty-five precious minutes with him in the prison. continue reading

Sisters Beryl and Eunice live just down the road from the Broughton ecclesial hall in Jamaica, in a small, concrete house with a yard kept trimmed by the resident goats and bordered by a wrought-iron fence. My brother, Dave, and I had just come from a sweltering memorial service in the hall and we stopped by to see how the sisters were doing as it had been a while since we’d last visited Broughton. continue reading