Backpacking Believers

Greetings to All of our Friends, Family and Fellow Hikers,       Well the title of this blog post says it all. We are taking on a new adventure for the Summer and Fall of this year. We as a family are moving to the high mountains of Colorado. We will be living at 8500 feet  on the border of Colorado and New Mexico. We will be living in the Sangre De Cristo mountains.       We will be working on a private ranch that ranges from 8000' to above 14,000'. We will be taking out guided hikes through the alpine forests, taking out trail rides on horseback, cooking wild game, jeep tours, elk hunts, fishing trips, farming and putting up hay and lots of hospitality, good food and making memories. We are excited about the new challenges and the new adventures before us.       On Katlyn's Lyme's disease, we already have Katlyn lined up with Lyme's doctors. She will be starting a natural treatment of herbs and vitamins and immune boosters. Please...

    It has been hard watching our daughter who has always been active and smiling go through the harsh struggles of Lyme’s Disease. When she was 8 years old and we were in the mission field working at SIFAT in Alabama, she was bitten by a tick then and was very sick. Then doctors in Alabama said there was no such thing as Lyme’s Disease in our area and that she had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, which is another form of tick disease. We now have learned that she may have contracted Lyme’s then and was misdiagnosed. We have been to many doctors since Katlyn was bitten in Ohio on our walk across America, in July of 2014 during another mission trip. It seems as though when people are trying to step out on faith and spread the words of the Lord to others, satan is there ready and waiting to attack, to destroy and even to try to break you and stop you. Our family and our daughter have overcome his attacks and it has only strengthened our faith in God. We will not be stopped or...

    It has been some time since we have written an update on where we are and what we have been up to since completing our walk in Love. We are sorry that we have been so busy that we have not kept everyone up to date. So here is why we have been so busy.     A couple of weeks before we completed our Walk in Love across America we spoke with a dear friend of ours on the phone and was informed they had stage 4 cancer and would be going to Houston, Texas for treatments. This was a hard thing to receive, as it would be for anyone hearing this news about someone they know or care about. We continued our walk in love and continued to pray for the Lord’s guidance. When we completed our walk in Denver, Colorado, we drove to Nebraska to spend time with our family and to regroup with reality and life off the trail. What a large adjustment our lives were getting ready to go through.  Wow, How quickly life changes!             ...