Mission: Downrange | Our Journey Ministering to Service Men and Women in the Military

Power problems (Adventures)

About 10am on Tuesday all the power went out in the apartment and we heard the main breaker pop. It has popped a few days earlier two time in succession but had not had a problem since. I had shown Sarah how to reset the breaker and so she jumped …

What a week

This last week has been a challenge. Monday started off with Nate in considerable pain in his ear. Jonna was supposed to leave at 9am to investigate a possible retreat center about 2 hours away (I investigated one the previous week). We decided that we needed to take Nate to …

Apparently we live in the country

Much to my surprise our home here in South Korea is “the country”. I was driving back from the bank with my trusted interpreter, Stone Kim, and we were in the left turn lane at a stop light when I commented to him about the driver in front of me …

E.T. phones home!

When I was twelve years old the movie E.T. came out and I really wanted my own little alien buddy. He was cute, in the ugly pug is cute way, his heart glowed in the dark and he could make your bike fly. Uber cool. However I never thought I’d …

Lilly is content in Korea

I could not resist this pic. She was so content to be on a soft bed in a patch of sunlight coming through the window. What a life of contentment.

Can 7-Eleven really be 7-Eleven without Slurpee’s?

It seems like there are more 7-Eleven’s here in South Korea than in the US. I don’t really know if that is true but it sure seems like it. When you go into the store you won’t recognize anything except the 7-Eleven signs. All the stuff in there is Korean. …

February 2012 Newsletter

The Payne Family Sharing the gospel and our lives with military people According to my calendar we have been here in South Korea for a month. That cannot be right. They say time flies when you’re having fun. It also files when you’re very busy and this has been a …

Getting our stuff

Before we left the states we put what stuff we were taking to Korea on a pallet (3.5 x 4 x 4) shrink wrapped it and consigned it to a carrier for air freight to Korea. The freight forwarder scheduled the shipment to go by China Air. It just so …