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...
December 25, 2018 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
Dear friends and family, We wish you all a very blessed Christmas and renewed faith for the coming year! ...
December 12, 2018 | Mike & Myra Watkins, Our Missionaries
Christmas Update December 2018 In this season, we not only celebrate that God sent his only Son into our broken world, but we are humbled to be a part of God’s mission to proclaim and demonstrate the Gospel of Jesus Christ through His church to all the nations. “The...