by Joe Barnosky | Oct 13, 2026 | Life, Missions
We closed our monthly support (for the first time) on August 27, 2026. Since then, we’ve been asked some version of the same thing, in a hallway after a presentation and once on a phone call: if you’re already fully funded, what would our gift even be for?...
by Joe Barnosky | Sep 1, 2026 | Life, Missions
The Call That Set The Date We had been praying about when to leave Joe’s interim full-time job at Horizons, our sending church. Not whether to leave. When. That’s a harder prayer than it sounds, because the answer has a number attached to it, and ours...
by Joe Barnosky | Jun 1, 2026 | Life, Missions
Update (October 2026): The visas didn’t come back from the consulate in time for September 29, so the date moved. I now leave the States Monday, October 26, and Abbey and the girls follow as soon as their flights are set. Below is the story as we told it in...
by Abbey Barnosky | Apr 14, 2026 | Life, Missions
Last year one of our teammates in South Africa lost a parent. We had the honor and privilege to travel to be with them and their family as they celebrated their parent’s heavenly homecoming. We only got to briefly meet him before he passed, but after the service we...
by Joe Barnosky | Apr 10, 2026 | Missions
As we began our journey into missions, one thing that caught us off guard is how many missions agencies (including ABWE) made a big deal about your “sending church” involvement. In truth, we weren’t knowledgeable about why that would matter so much....
by Joe Barnosky | Apr 10, 2026 | Life, Missions, Tech
I have quit my dream job twice now. I am not sure whether that makes me unusually blessed or unusually bad at keeping a good thing going. Probably both. This is the story of how God solved a problem I didn’t know how to solve — and why solving it means we are...
