Perspective.

The Brock Report - June '24 edition

Spectacular flower arrangement by a dear friend.

It is amazing to see the vision that God gave us so long ago turn into 3D reality around us. Though sometimes we have a hard time seeing it clearly through the daily grind. We tend to live with a bit of tunnel vision, focused on doing the next thing among all the things it takes to build and run a mission base in the jungle. When visitors come and point out all of the growth and advancement since their last visit, their fresh perspective allows us a broader view of the progress and is a real encouragement!

The siding is finished on the little house, and the interior insulation is being installed. It is looking more and more like a house!

Vann is running electrical in the Round Robin house getting ready for the next step, drywall hanging and finishing. But guess what? Help is on the way! We are really excited about some dear friends of ours coming soon to help with the drywall project. God’s timely provision just shouldn’t surprise us anymore!

A couple of our bulls have been giving us awful trouble by breaking through our fences and leading the rest of the herd away a mile down the road and even onto the airstrip of our neighboring aviation base! That quickly went from an annoyance to an unacceptable danger. They have since been sold to market, but through these recent struggles it came to our attention that most of you do not know why we have cows on a mission base. Our reasons are twofold - they massively help keep the grass down which saves Vann days on the tractor every month, and they help protect our property from invasion. We actually have more legal right to defend our ownership with livestock than simply with a title. It’s wild, but definitely worth dealing with dumb bovine. The realities of living, building, and protecting anything in this jungle take an eternal perspective to make sense.

We were super thankful for a short getaway to celebrate our anniversary! It was a much needed time of rest in a beautiful, remote spot on Peru’s northern coast. One of the blessings of spending some quiet time away is a fresh perspective and readiness to jump back into the work that can seem at times so big and unending, but so very worth it all! Jesus is worth everything. He is more than anything we could ever accomplish, be, do, or have in this life.

A HUGE thank you for this new website and email format to my dearest brother-in-law who has all the talent and patience to help me, and no time to do it but chose to help anyway. SO thankful!

Thank you all for your love, care, prayers, and support for us, our children, and for all of the tribal working missionaries that we support from this mission base. We pray for each of you too. We ask God’s hand of blessing and protection over you, and we thank Him for blessing and enriching our lives with family and friends. For the sake of Jesus’ great name and making it known among the nations - he is worth it all.

“Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.”

―David Platt