Watkins April 2020 Update

It’s not easy to start a missionary update amidst a pandemic lockdown but suffice it to say that you are most likely reading this from home. And if you were not home, you couldn’t easily open this email on your phone with rubber gloves, our collective “new normal.”...

Watkins February 2020 Update

What would you do if tourists came into your church service and began taking photos of yourbuilding and service? Not only this, but their guide would be eloquently narrating to them thehistory of your church in hushed tones. And then they would walk out with awkward...

Watkins January 2020 Update

This newsletter doesn’t begin with a clever title like “20/20 vision for 2020,” which I hope you appreciate, but we do hope you had a blessed Christmas with loved ones and that God warmed your hearts with renewed faith, hope, and love. We enjoyed a wonderful visit...

Watkins December 2019 Update

An interesting thing happens after studying a language – in my case, Russian – for over 30 years. You can actually read it! I was surprised on our recent second trip to Tbilisi, Georgia that I was able to read a text in Old Church Slavonic which is like Gothic Middle...

Watkins November 2019 Update

This month marks the 30th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and today marks the National Independence Day of Poland, but these times of remembrance deserve some explanation. You see, the Berlin Wall didn’t actually “fall.” The wall was torn down by those...
Watkins October 2019 Update

Watkins October 2019 Update

We skipped our September update because we were in transit back to Poland, so we have much to report in our October update. As I I write this, we are on the train from Ukraine to Poland after a very significant ministry week in L’viv and Ternopil. Myra and I...