Padens in the Philippines

  "Should-haves" I  should  be landing in Tucson in a few hours. I  should  be getting to see my daughter after a long 6 months apart. I  should  be getting to watch her graduate from High School and celebrate turning 18 years old. I  should .... There are so many of  "should-haves"  recently. I'm sure all of you have the same feelings we do about things we wanted to do, things we needed to do, and what we are missing right now.  I've actually been waiting to send an update because there were just so many unknowns. I was sure if we waited a bit, we would have something to say.  Well, now it's been 2 months in quarantine and we still don't have any answers. So I guess it's time to just tell you what we  DO  know.  Wait... Not much really!  We  don't  know when we will be allowed back to normal life. We  don't  know if Nhaya will be able to come home this summer. We  don't  know i...

TEAM 4:5 II Corinthians 4:5 “For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.” Exciting things are happening!!! In the last few months we have been quite busy.  SEND INTERNATIONAL'S vision is to  Mobilize  Gods people to  Engage  the Unreached and  Plant  Reproducing churches.  In line with this goal we have been busy trying to set up a new program that will happen this summer.  We believe that in order to have a massive missionary heart in the future we need to have a strong missionary movement among our children and youth.  So we are launching a summer short- term missions program called  TEAM 4:5 . We are looking at sending two teams. These teams will be filled with youth ages 15-18. The disciple group leaders will be ages 19-26.They will go through  one week  of  intensive training, living in tents and learning skil...