We have learned much about Christmas in Nepal; since we are novices at this, I will fill you in on what we have learned. We have befriended the shop owners across from the team house in Kathmandu and we invited them to have celebrate Christmas with us. They were…
One advantage about being in Nepal is that I am 11 hours and 45 minutes ahead of US Central Time. So, we ate our Thanksgiving Dinner about 5 hours ago (5:00 PM local time), which was 5:15 AM Central. As I write this, your turkey has been in the oven for a few hours and you…
We arrived in Kathmandu at around noon on October 7th, but I didn’t stay long. There were some pressing things that Mike Keator and I needed to address at our team site in Biratnagar, so we left the next morning for a short flight to visit the team. Biratnagar is southeast of…
I (Ryan) am learning so much about the structure of RUN Global and all that is involved with a church planting movement. I have been focused on helping where I can, teaching when needed, and offering suggestions/advice when I have it. It has been a wonderful, wonderful…
The camper is buttoned up for the winter and we are ready for the next leg of the journey. It takes quite a bit to move our family. With 7 of us and traveling with everything in suitcases (10 total checked bags), we take up some space. We…
The ministry in Nepal / India is rapidly growing, five months ago, we had five teams, now we have eleven teams in India and Nepal, and three more are forming (the map above shows our training center locations)! People are coming out of the woodwork to join up to reach…
We have driven 3185 miles and visited 14 states since the first of August. We have slept at 1-Menard’s, 2-Costco’s, 3-Walmarts, numerous rest stops and many host homes / churches over the last month and a half. We still have some distance to go, namely the LONG flight to…
Our church, the Urban Refuge, sent us off along with some other missionaries. Here are some photos…
We have been really busy the last month or so. We did some traveling to visit some family, then finishing all that was involved with selling our home. We closed on our home August 5th. My last day of work was on Friday August 9th. On the 10th we headed up north to share…
