February 12, 2020 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
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...
January 10, 2020 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
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...
December 9, 2019 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
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...
November 13, 2019 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
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...
October 14, 2019 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
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...
March 12, 2019 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
I like “go-in-g!” If Forrest Gump were a missionary instead of a cross-country runner, you might ask him why he became a missionary: “God told me to go, so I went.” But why are you still a missionary? “Because I like go-in-g.” But Forrest, isn’t so...
