International stories
Photo: With my wife, Tamie, in British Columbia, Canada.
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While I focus on national writing, I make periodic international reporting trips.
I’ve covered a number of stories in Mexico and Canada and reported from eight countries outside North America: Belgium, Brazil, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, the Netherlands and South Africa.
Some of my international stories:
• A rocky road for Mexico missions, from Aquiles, Mexico, published May 2012.
• More precious than gold, from Vancouver, British Columbia, published February 2010.
• For South African churches, post-apartheid era brings blessings, from Benoni, South Africa, published November 2009.
• Lead me to Calgary, from Calgary, Alberta, published November 2009.
• Little church on the prairie, from Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, published August 2009.
• He takes notes, shoots photos — and preaches, from Amsterdam, published August 2009.
• Born at ACU, dream comes to pass, from Accra, Ghana, published July 2009.
• Border violence curtails mission trips to Mexico, from Tijuana, Mexico, published April 2009.
• Fertile field for faith? Struggle in a secular culture, from Toronto, published April 2009.
• Ministry of mortar, from San Antonio de las Alazanas, Mexico, published April 2008.
• Not-so-material world: Blessings in remote village, from Aquiles, Mexico, published May 2007.
• A vision for Central America, from Las Tres Marias, Guatemala, published September 2005.
• American boy and his church share faith, friendship with Mexican orphans, from Juarez, Mexico, published September 2004.
• They took a taste of Oklahoma to Brazil, from Vitoria, Brazil, published June 1999.
– Bobby
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Photo: At a wildlife park in South Africa.






