Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Does Prayer Matter?

Well Dear Friends, We´ve now been in the city of Puerto Maldonado for about 3 months, and possibly to your great surprise, we don´t have a megachurch, our own radio station, a new seminary, or even a bright shiny building. What we do have is a lot of contacts, many of whom have heard the [...]

Living Room Surgery, etc

How beautiful are the feet…

This picture was taken mid-journey during an evangelistic trip by motorcycle.

A Quick Visit to Hell

It’s true… I actually visited Hell for a short time today. I had actually been there once before, but this time we got to hand out a number of tracts, and got to talk to a number of people. Many of them were really quite interested. Every single one of them believed in Hell. You [...]

Dec. 08 Prayer Letter

The young man nervously stood in front of the small congregation, explaining that He had come to Bible college to train for the ministry, and that he believed that the Lord was sending them out into the harvest-fields. His pregnant wife looked on with affirmation, for the Lord had put on their hearts the growing [...]

Baby Bernard Joseph Fitzgerald V

Where is your treasure?

Just Monday, I was preparing to come into town in order to do some emails and phone calls. As Loren and I were preparing to pull out of the gate, we realized that no one was there to open the gate for us. I quickly got out of the truck in order to open the [...]

Location, Location, Location

We have spent countless hours and numerous days looking all around the city of Puerto Maldonado. The goal was to find a place that would be suitable as a “base station” for the tribal ministry. Ideally, we wanted someplace which would also be large enough for a church, and perhaps even a small area for [...]

bug bites and cow heart

Well, the bugs got me, but I got the cow, so who really won? I’m not sure.I had the privilege of taking Keith Brock, missionary in Tacna, down to the jungle city of Puerto Maldonado for a few days. We saw a number of interesting things while there. This is the very first four-wheel-drive motorcycle [...]

27 weeks & 5days

These are some of my new outfits. Most of the outfits were given to me by Mom (fitzgerald). She sent them down, along with some really cute clothes for little Joseph. The turtle necks and pants were given to me by a friend in California. If you have a opinion of which I should use [...]