The Praise! We wanted to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all of our family, friends, and partners for helping us walk through these past six months with Ron's serious health issues. We are so grateful to report as of this Friday morning (September 1st) that he is cancer free - no chemo/radiation treatments - and he is on his way to a full recovery…. at 80!!! We know all of this was a gift from God and an answer to the many prayers that people have prayed. What a Faithful and Great God we are all privileged to serve and know! Thank you all! Blessings, Ron & Kathy The Trial Ron recently ..read more

Panoramic view of the mountains out our back door ..read more

Dr. Tom and his daughter Cheri (GA), along with friends from Texas, stopped by for a visit on their way through Montana. They are longtime friends and supporters who always bring us joy, and our moments together always turn into treasured memories ..read more

For the past five years, Four Winds Ministry Center has been privileged to host an AA Sponsorship Retreat. Approximately twenty ladies attend, several of whom are Native American. They arrive on Friday evening from Montana and surrounding states and they stay until noon Sunday. We are so grateful to provide our facilities to this wonderful group of ladies ..read more

​During a December food/supplies delivery to Pryor, Montana (on the Crow reservation), we (Ron & Kathy) received a great and unexpected blessing! We were wrapped in a new Pendleton blanket! This is quite an honor, and we are humbled by this act from the people of the Crow Nation! This is the third such honor we have been privileged to experience in our years of ministering to Native American people in our great state! To God be the glory and the thanks for giving us favor among them ..read more

To My Heroes…                             I have been a foster parent for over seven years, and had dozens of children come through my home. I am amazed at the people I meet that say, “I could never do that” or “it would be too hard” or “how can you give them back” or “I can’t have my heart broken over and over.” All of those statements are true. But I also want to let you into a world you may not have ever had a key to before. I know words aren’t much, and some of what you will read will repulse you ..read more

As usual with any blog that I write, it has been born out of restlessness and reflection.  The title above might sound horrible, but let me explain: I have been reading a lot about what it means to stand justified before God the Father because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. I have always looked at it one-sided, from my point of view, from the point of view of what Jesus did for me, of how my sins are washed away and I can stand justified before God the Father. However, I never looked at it from God the Father's side. He gave His only begotten Son... It pleased Him (God the ..read more

            It has been so long since I have written anything that I feel like the enemy has almost convinced me that it would be a waste of time to do so. But thank God that He chooses to believe in us above the lies of the enemy!             Jessica and I just returned from a trip to VA for her sister’s wedding. It was such a great time and really one of the only times that Jessica, Logan, Connor, and I have ever been alone together. It was awesome. The stress of a home with 8 children disappeared. The ..read more

This was a paper I had to do for school. I normally would not put something like this on here, as it is extremely long, but it was a labor of love and the Lord really worked on me in the preparation of this paper. I leave it here for others to enjoy!          When looking at discipleship and missions, there is a great danger in falling into the ever-complacent Sunday-school, child-like thinking that so easily ensnares much of modern-American Christianity. But mission and discipleship are serious business! A Christian’s very essence as a human being fits into the missi ..read more

Some people live their whole lives and never change Some people change their whole lives and never live Some people live their lives for others Some people live other people's lives Some people live and never look back Some people look back and never live Some people live a life they don't want Some people want a life they don't live Some people live their whole lives in fear Some people fear living their whole lives Some people live life in the shadows Some people shadow the lives they live Some people live the lives they love Some people live lives without love Some people choose the life th ..read more