David and Joyce Reed

U.S. Assignment EndingWe are concluding our year of U.S. assignment, wrapping up our 2nd term as American Baptist Missionaries, and about to embark on the beginning of our 3rd term.  It hardly seems possible that we have been serving as your missionaries for 11 years!  During that time w » read more

Picking Up the PaceLast month I went to our son Aaron’s High School track meets.  He runs the mile and the 800 meter.  On this day he won the mile and set a new personal best which was pretty cool.  When the 800 came, he said he was tired and was not going to push hard and just us » read more

Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”  (Matthew 26:6, Mark 32:1, Luke 22:39, John 18:1)PRESSEDEVOO.  Extra virgin olive oil.  Good for your heart.  Recommended for cooking.  Oliv » read more

THE POWERThe Chile earthquake was a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter scale.   It moved an entire city ten feet. I started to think about what an earthquake like that means in terms of energy.  The Richter magnitude scale uses some big math to assign a single number to quantify the am » read more

Oprah Winfrey got the surprise of her life on September 8, 2009 when her staff choreographed a street dance with 20,000 people on the streets of Chicago to the song “I’ve Got a Feeling” performed live by The Black Eyed Peas.  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aSbKvm_mKA) The surprise kic » read more