March 7, 2017 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
People often ask, “So what do missionaries do?” Since there are many missionaries – really, not enough – I can only answer for us. What we do also includes what we don’t do, and we don’t get in the way of the next generation. But not only this, we encourage and equip...
January 24, 2017 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
January 2017 Update Don’t worry, this isn’t the title of a poem, and I am not becoming the wind. If you have ever seen a movie from WW2 about aircraft carriers, then you will understand this expression. After steaming thousands of miles across the ocean when the...
November 21, 2016 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
Don’t worry, this is not a U.S. post-election blog, but yes, the dust is settling there as well. Christians will have to reassess “how” we continue the mission of God, making disciples, but not “if” we should do so. The ground in which we sow can go from rich soil to...
October 18, 2016 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
In our last update, I said that my goal in one month was to be writing this October update in Krakow surrounded by the boxes we shipped. Well, we are in Krakow, the boxes arrive in about ten days, and we have already signed a lease for our flat. God has blessed us...
September 7, 2016 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
I am currently surrounded by familiar foes – boxes and boxes of books and belongings – and our ministry goal for this month is that our next update in October will find me writing again, surrounded by boxes and boxes of books and belongings, but in Krakow, Poland! We...
August 12, 2016 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
There are some things that, once you know them, you can’t “un-know” them. Like when Isaiah stood before an open heaven acknowledging he was an unclean man among unclean people. Once God removed his sin, he was compelled to preach to his fellow man. Several millennia...