News from the Field

Today, I am grateful for adoption. Not our adoption of four of our kids, although I am certainly grateful for that, too. I am grateful that I was adopted by my Heavenly Father — the God of the universe — […]

Today, I am grateful that I/we can live here in Ukraine and be the hands and feet of Jesus to a marginalized community. I won’t bother trying to convince anyone that I always like living here. But I am always […]

Today, I am grateful that God speaks through His wondrous creation. Mary left at 3:00 a.m. this morning for a week. She had a generous gift of a ticket to America, and she will spend the week with the older […]

Today, I’m grateful for rest. Not because I feel rested. In fact, I’m in a season of going to bed exhausted and waking up exhausted. As I felt like I was crawling into church this morning, I sensed the Lord […]

November 20, 2001, Seth Michael Malone was born. What a great day that was! We were really excited to be having another baby. Truly, we were happy every time we had a new baby, though. From the beginning, Seth brought […]

Continued from Day 18 — Read Part One Here Note: I removed a lot of what I wrote about the place Micah came from because it is not pertinent to what I am so grateful for. Maybe there will be […]