Tag Archives: raising children

Approaching the empty nest

Things are moving quickly right now. Three weeks from today, I’ll be walking our youngest daughter down the aisle of an evangelical church in Cardiff. She met a young Welshman three years ago at a Christian conference in Aberystwyth and they’ve been engaged for eighteen months. After the wedding, they will be setting up house [...]

Taking the bitter with the sweet

It’s great to be back in Wales! The older I get, the more that I discover that I am “set in my ways” and yearn for the routine of our relatively quiet, simple life—even though we serve as missionaries in a foreign land. I mean no disrespect to my fellow Americans, but I quickly grew [...]