His Grace..... To South Texas. Oct 15, 2024 Posted about 1mo ago

In God's grace we've been at the southern tip of Texas every two months for the last year and a half. I have trip #12 set for November 4th. In God's grace we have set January 12th 4:00 p.m., Lord willing, for our official move in Shalyn's pickup truck to the Mex Tex border. We will still travel internationally [as calender & finances permit - - ie Africa, India, South America] to train oth...

Safely Home from the Texas Border (again) June 2024 Posted about 5mos ago

We have taken nine ministry trips to the Texas / Mexico border over the last 14 months.  And we feel that  -- as the Lord permits -- we want to re-locate there in 2025.We would still serve internationally now and again (based on resources and invitations) yet we feel that the huge swath of land (viz. the border area) could allow for important outreach for some time.Please pray with us, as there...

Safely Home from Perú & South Texas (Feb 1, 2024) Posted about 10mos ago

Dear friends and supporters:Ministry Part 1 - - - My NE Perú ministry trip was safe and sound with an emphasis on time with in-country church planter (Michael Muñoz), with whom I had MANY hours with in boats, river towns and churches. A highlight was to see him acquire a much needed new Moto-Taxi, which he uses to help sustain his family.        **Take a look (29 second mini video) Nauta Town. ...

Safely Home From Honduras (dated to July 2023) Posted about over 1 year ago

My time recently in Honduras was on the back end of a very good south Texas border ministry trip with Shalyn. From Texas, I utilized the proximity to Honduras to have 5.5 days in the western mountains (where my family and lived many years) to do a circuit trip with persons in Honduras. The time proved to be a very good investment as I saw that God continues to work in Western mountains. My ...

Safely Home From South India + NE India (May 14 2023) Posted about over 1 year ago

I am now safely home from a fortnight ministry trip to India. Ministry time was with Issac Hanna of Monroe, WA. who is great ministry + traveling partner.Isaac + I have had breadth + depth of training others in south India, but also in NE India. The leaders in India (with whom I have ministered regularly since 2007) are thriving in their ministries. Take a look - - - - >https://youtube.com/w...

Safely Home From Texas / Mexico Border (April 8, 2023) Posted about over 1 year ago

Friends, Patrick and I had a very good and wonderful ministry trip, and we are now safely home. We met various local leaders and missionaries in McAllen, Texas, encouraging them and being encouraged by the work God is doing there at the Texas-Mexican border. We spent time at "Senda One" immigrant camp in Reynosa Mexico praying with people, and a part of our hearts now remain there. Thank you fo...

Safely Home from Belize (January) + a Honeymoon (February)! Posted about almost 2 years ago

#1 - - - Home from Belize (January 2023). In January I had a short five day ministry time in Belize which allowed me to connect and collaborate with in-country leaders to pray about plans for future training in the area of church strengthening and outreach.  Shalyn and I are making ourselves available for training within Belize for this purpose, with the Conservative Baptist churches.  We hav...

Safely Home From Burundi, Africa (November 14, 022) Posted about about 2 years ago

I'm safely home this week from a very good 19 day trip.The principal part of this trip was in Burundi where I was asked to train 20 leaders on themes for healthy church life, healthy marriage and healthy discipleship. It went extremely well and I was so glad that I went. It was very invigorating for me on a personal level and I can't wait to get back there again this was my second time that co...

Safely Home From Honduras (Supposed to be dated Sept 7 2022) Posted about about 2 years ago

Yes, I'm safely home from Honduras and that was back on  September 7th! But this is typed to you from Burundi, Africa - - - where I'm now safely traveling (in November). https://youtube.com/watch?v=B-FJbi6-jmQ&feature=share ----> O'Connor - - - in Marcala Town, Western Honduras August 31 2022 (29 sec video)I forgot to send out this HONDURAS update r/ safe return home from Honduras, so I...

Safely Home From Perú. July 3rd, 2022 Posted about over 2 years ago

This trip is the culmination of seven months of back-to-back monthly travel since December. It was all by design to spend lots of time in Latin America so as to pray through my ongoing next steps through life. Highlights within Peru were eyeball to eyeball time with regional leaders, but also certain short opportunities to provide training. July, August and September are allocated for USA trave...

Safely home from the Mosquito Coast of Honduras (2022 May 31) Posted about over 2 years ago

Greetings!A special verse recently has been "His God instructs him and teaches him the right way" (Is 28:26), which reminds me of the Fathers loving guidance and care.My recent two week ministry trip was in Puerto Lempira of eastern Honduras. This trip was by the request of e3 Partners for me to  help out a team of others to scout out new areas for ministry. https://youtube.com/watch?v=RzQ-GxSR...

Safely home from Honduras, Guatemala + México (April 21 2022) Posted about over 2 years ago

Update and prayer request:I am safely home from Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico. It was a very good trip.The prayer request is a prayer of Thanksgiving for this ministry trip and for God's grace to be a part of His purposes.Guatemala Highlands ~ 4/9/2022. [19 second video] https://youtube.com/watch?v=CIJaSBn2rFY&feature=shareI am scheduled to be in the Mosquito Coast of Honduras for the l...

Safely home now from Mexico (2022, Feb 6) Posted about almost 3 years ago

Hello from the Seattle area:Like an athletic swimmer who has been out of the pool due to certain home-life necessities, he or she has to get “back into the water”, after his or her trauma.  Thus, my recent 21 day ministry trip was – for me – a chance to “get back into the water” of ministry south of the border –– my call (and Debbie’s call) since the early 1980’s.   While in Mexico these past t...

Safely home from Honduras (2021 July 3) Posted about over 3 years ago

Hello from our home base in Washington State:I cautiously have the maximum amount of time with Debbie these days, given that our journey with Debbie’s cancer remains our primary focus during this chapter of our lives. Having said that, I was able to have a short ministry slot of time in Honduras this past week (five days in-country) so as to facilitate & take part in a two day church planti...

Safely home from Honduras (2021 April 24) Posted about over 3 years ago

Dear friends, I am safely home from a ministry trip to western Honduras.  This has been the first international ministry trip in approximately 14 months (the last one was also to Honduras) and thus I have had very few few travel related updates. While in Honduras, I rented a car in San Pedro Sula and made it to seven different locations. I was able to connect with many leaders to spur them on ...

Safely home from the Oncologist (May 22, 2020) Posted about over 4 years ago

We had a good oncology meeting yesterday. But "good" is loosely defined. Our chief oncologist told us again - with great clarity - that  Debbie's situation is very serious.  But he pointedly encouraged me (Patrick) not to live with Debbie's situation as an albatross or burden around my neck, as I have been.  His framework is to live as 'normally' as possible -- in spite of her many lesions. ...

Safely Home now from Honduras (February, 2020) Posted about almost 5 years ago

The highlight of this 11 day trip within Honduras was to be in the western mountain town Copan Ruinas. You may recall that when Debbie and I and the girls lived in Honduras we had spent four years in this specific town. At the time there were zero churches in the Chortí Indian mountain communities. Our hearts longed for success for new churches in the Chortí communities. But that was not real...

Safely Home now from Africa (January 2020) Posted about almost 5 years ago

From time in Uganda (December, 2019), I returned home safely from a 2.5 week trip. I ministered with a co-laborer from the jungle of NE Peru, and we ministered with three agencies, training for new churches.It was good to train others, yet it was also a good chance for me to process many thoughts from a tumultous fall — many griefs!  Yet, our Lord is the Lord of grief to whom we entrust our hgh...

Safely Home now from Copan Ruinas of Western Honduras (July 2019) Posted about over 5 years ago

Hello from the north side of Seattle:Many highlights from this previous and somewhat fast 10-day ministry trip to Honduras. One of the many highlights was to be in the town of Copan Ruinas. While there I was with the church which the Lord started back when we lived in that town. They have only been starting daughter churches through the years and most recently have started additional outreaches...

Safely home from Ministry in Honduras (2019 April 12) Posted about over 5 years ago

During this ministry trip, Patrick had time in the Moskito Coast with a new missionary couple. This eastern seaboard sector of Honduras was a thrill as the sub-culutre was that of the ‘Miskito People’ and there seems to be a request for follow-up.While Patrick was in eastern Honduras, Debbie had an extended seven day time frame with her annual ladies conference. A GREAT QUANTITY of women came f...

Safely home from Peru (February, 2019) — A very good ministry trip! Posted about almost 6 years ago

Hello:Well, a highlight of our seven city 17 day trip was to be in very river communities with in-area leaders. Layer upon layer relationships allowed us to ‘go deep’ and deeper with a number of key pastors and in-country leaders. https://youtu.be/kVR82NqIPp8      Watch "Río Huallaga Community Feb 2019. 25 second video. Patrick and Debbie" on YouTube But it was hot!  We both kept ourselves hydr...

Safely home from Africa (December, 2018) Posted about almost 6 years ago

A hightlight from this 17 day end-of-the-year ministry trip to Africa was to see my colleague from Peru (Jhon Linares) in action as the primary trainer.  For three major 2-3 day workshops, I served as his “Barnabas" with him as my “Paul”.  Jhon and I had been working out the details for this ministry trip since the first part of the year so that he would accompany me to Africa to train others f...

Safely Home! (November, 2018) Posted about about 6 years ago

I titled this mini-post ‘Safely Home’, in that that is where we are!   I have now been home for roughly two months… rare!I was to be in Honduras last month (October, ’18) and Africa this month (late Nov., ’18), yet —> as many now know I badly fractured my right ankle in September.Please do not remind me of my error for trying lug a heavy mattress upstairs and backwards!  Yes, the mattress wo...

Safely home from Greece (July 13 to 26, 2018) Posted about over 6 years ago

Hello from Lake Stevens, WA:   We thank the Lord for YOU. And we pray for many of you.   Please thank the Lord with us:   (   ) For Patrick’s safe trip (to and from) Greece this past month (July 12 to 26), where he came alongside others (roughly 35) from around the globe to strategize for on-going church planting training themes. Please pray that Patrick can apply what ...

Safely home from western Honduras (May 21, 2018) Posted about over 6 years ago

                    — Safely home from western Honduras (May 21, 2018) —  My 14 day Honduras ministry trip this month has been a re-charge for me!  ---- >   https://youtu.be/JViWWFRwbEA  Watch "Patrick O'C -- Copan Ruinas town // Western Honduras. 43 second video. (2018 May 14)." on YouTube When I departed for Honduras on May 9th, I had been a bit ‘pooped’ from back to back trips to ...

Safely home from the Amazon of Peru Posted about over 6 years ago

We JUST arrived back home from south America. This trip was harder than many others!  It could be age or it could be that I (Patrick) am exhausted!None-the-less, God is good and these are some highlights from three weeks in Peru:Patrick had many many miles along the Amazon Rver in Peru (but also Brazil and Colombia) to visit many pastors in a large number of river villages. Training and mentori...

Safely home from Peru trip (May 11 to 26, 2018) Posted about over 6 years ago

Highlights from Peru this month included shifting into my new (very good) role as e3 Partners Global Mentor Coach, with time in Tacna, Arequipa, Puno, Sicuani and Cuzco. In each location we had training opportunities, but also eyeball to eyeball time with area church planters.   Sicuani was an area where Debbie had participated with jump-starting a new church plant two years ago. That ch...

Safely home from Honduras trip (Nov 30 to Dec 12, 2017) Posted about almost 7 years ago

                                 -- Safely home from Honduras trip (Nov 30 to Dec 12, 2017) --   This was my first visit to Honduras since our move from Honduras to Seattle in 2009. It was sweet, but on the very day of arrival many Honduran cities were terrorized with civil unrest for political reasons.   * On this trip I had an extended time in San Pedro Sula, with ARNOLD LINAR...

Safely home from Colombia, Peru + Paraquay (Oct 22 to Nov 18, 2017) Posted about about 7 years ago

First: How can we pray for YOU!  So many of you pray for us --- thank you! We got home safely on Saturday......16+ legs to the 28 day trip for Colombia, Peru and Paraguay.  I, Patrick, had a bad chest cold for the last nine days in Paraquay, but the Lord opened doors for that new entry location.🌡 Watch O'Connors.... "NE Peru. Oct 26 2017.... Buying Selling Fish. (21 sec video)" https://y...

Safely home from Peru and Colombia (July 21 2017) Posted about over 7 years ago

Thank you for being with us in prayer and support!I am asked to train and mentor others for church planting movements and thus I was in South America this past fortnight. This ten day trip was short and fast, yet with a number of highlights:        ~ I had time with in-country USA missionaries in Bogota where I was asked to facilitate a deeper level of accountability and friendship with the hus...

Safely home from India and Ireland (a 27 days trip)! Posted about over 7 years ago

While our time in Ireland was PLAY (our 30th wedding anniversary), our time in India was WORK.   It is the kind of work that remains a thrill: to train and mobilize others for His best purposes.   While in India participants were in-country Indian missionary couples who arrived from Kerala, Orissa, Kashmir, Manipur and West Bengal. Each participant is an in-country workers sent fr...

Safely home from Peru, Bolivia, Honduras and Costa Rica (Feb 26 to April 12, 2017). APRIL 18, ’17. Posted about over 7 years ago

Safely home a few days ago from Latin America!A highlight from 30 days in Peru was being asked to climb down into a very deep water cistern to baptize seven believers in the Lord!  I had just taught on obedience to the Lord. Seven stepped forward to say that they want to express their obedience, through immediate baptism. Deb had time in Honduras (8 days) and Bolivia (5 days), and so as an on-g...

Safely home from Kashmir, India. December 20 2016. Posted about almost 8 years ago

                                              Lake Stevens,  WADear friends, It was a harder trip than most trips,  yet the Lord endured me (and my coworker,  Mike Burr)  through the upper Kashmir of north India,  then through three locations of Manipur, NE India,  then through three cities in south India. It was also a cold trip (42 degrees inside hotel rooms) as most locations were at high a...

Safely home from the high Andes + the hot Jungle. Offf to India mañana. Nov. 26 2016. Posted about almost 8 years ago

Safely home from the high Andes + the hot Jungle. Offf to India mañana. Nov. 26 2016.From Debbie's pen:Thanks so much for your faithful prayers for us. God is good and we are so thankful for His provision of safety, good health, and some good interactions on this past Peru trip.Our time in the high Andes went well as we worked with our team of Peruvian Andes leaders and together followed up on...

Safely home from 28 days in Peru. July 25, 2016.  Posted about over 8 years ago

Hello!It is either my age, or I am pushing myself too hard from this last 28 days trip:--> Time in the Andes for Debbie and me (Patrick) was strategic as Debbie led this portion of the trip for assisting several churches near Sicuani of the high Andes in starting new daughter churches. This was done through day-by-day 'person of peace' searches by all participlants in four villages.  Deb did...

Safely home from Africa. June 13, 2016. Uganda. Posted about over 8 years ago

This 20 day Africa trip was nearly perfect. We traveled a lot within Uganda,  for several venues. Most days were 13 hour days on very bumpy roads. On many boat River rides, too,  to islands off the coast from Uganda.  It was phenomenal. It was a great 20 day trip in that we got a chance to train but we all also got a chance to look at some of the churches which had previously been planted. Than...

2016 March 30 -- from Arequipa, Peru Posted about over 8 years ago

2016 March 30 -- from Arequipa, Peru A two month trip is really not too long from the perspective of once having lived for many years in Honduras, and from the perspective of the Lord's 33 year 'trip' to planet earth.  Yet, mañana we take off for our last of four countries (in the Caribbean) for ministry during this 54 day trip. We get back to the north side of Seattle April 9th.A highlight: In...

Trujillo, NW Coast Peru (March 7, 2016) Posted about over 8 years ago

Hello from Trujillo, NW Coast of Peru!Deb and I board a bus in two hours, this time for the Andes city of CAJAMARCA, with seven days in that region, but in three towns (Chota, Bambamarca and Cajamarca)  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajamarca )Prayer  is such a priority. Thus we ask you to 'shoot up a prayer' with us for our time now in Peru. Fast update for our 54 day trips (Feb 16 to April ...

Hello from a town called "Mala'" Peru :-) Posted about almost 9 years ago

The Lord is good! For this, we want to use our energies for His purposes. Please pray with us as this fortnight as Patrick is in the town of ‘Mala', Peru with roughly ten E3 Partners in-country and USA leaders. Next week Patrick darts off to LIMA and then to jungle area called Iquitos, along the Amazon River in NE Peru.Thank you for ‘shooting up a prayer'.We work in His harvest yet we also try ...

Almost Christmas eve (December 2015) Posted about almost 9 years ago

Debbie and I really hope that you have a special Christmas season this year.This year has been full and very full for all of us, yet all of us entrust our lives and our days to the Lord.We throw our lives and hearts to the feet of Jesus, as Apostle John did: "When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and th...

Hello from Kathmandu, Nepal (December 6 2015) Posted about almost 9 years ago

                                                                                                             December 6th, 2015 Hello from Kathmandu, Nepal: This is ministry trip #3 to Nepal and #11 to India (and roughly #15 to Asia), during this past decade.   Highlights from this 20 day south Asia ministry trip: November 18 to 26 = A one week training retreat for in-country missiona...

Safely home from Ecuador and Mexico (Nov 9 2015) Posted about about 9 years ago

Hello!Today is Monday November 9, and we rejoice to say that Deb and I are back home...back to her "home and native land", Canada.  Deb's parents reside near Vancouver and we are cooling our jets a bit with them.Our 48 day ministry trip to Mexico and Ecuador (Sept 20 to Nov 7) was full and very full, as e3 Partners arranged for us to be in roughly 20+ locations for a lot of training and mentori...

Esmeralda, northern Ecuador (Oct 15 2015) Posted about about 9 years ago

Hello!Safe training and safe travels, so far.  We finished up 21 days in Mexico in roughly ten locations, and now we are in roughly 8 locations in Ecuador for 20 days (Oct 11 to 31).  Thank you for 'shooting up' a prayer or two as Debbie and I travel and train.  E3 Partners has asked us to train and mentor in Latin America. Thus we do it the old fashioned way: eyeball to eyeball.New churches ar...

Sept 28 2015 (Tehuacan, Mexico) Posted about about 9 years ago

With this as a six week trip, Deb and I have just wrapped up week #1 in and near the Sierra Madre mountain range of SE Mexico.We trained in three locations, but the happy thing is that our hosts are like 'sponges' who:  a) apply concepts for new churches; b) make plans for even more new churches and c) have told us that we came in perfect timing for their ministry needs. I am asking the Lord ab...

Safely back Ftom Costa Rica (Sept 6 2015) Posted about about 9 years ago

Thank you for praying with us for this short 7 day ministry trip to Costa Rica. Though I am still on the plane,  the report to you is that the main time there was for member care for an on-the-field couple.   I went with a colleague from Seattle, Bruce.  We train others,  but we also try to come alongside them to weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice. Love to you, Patrick 

This month begins with ministry in Costa Rica for Patrick (August 30 to September 5) Posted about about 9 years ago

This is a short update to request prayers as I depart in a few hours for a short seven day trip to Heredia, Costa Rica. The trip has roughly twelve points on the in-country 'to do list' for training and mobilizing others, but the bottom line is that I will be going with an ACTION INTERNATIONAL colleague Bruce Ingram so as to visit with and have time with a brand new ACTION Int'l missionary ther...

Debbie is in Costa Rica for an 11 day trip (June 27, 2015) Posted about over 9 years ago

Normally I am the one flying off exotic places!  (I stay home this week still recuperating from 8 months of back to back travel ! :-)  ).This week Debbie is in Costa Rica for an 11 day trip.   She is near  Liberia, NW Costa Rica.E3 is training her to train and mobilize others. Of course, she comes with roughly 32 years of cross-cultural experience, but we do thank the Lord as E3 grooms her to g...

Off to the home office in Plano, Texas Posted about over 9 years ago

One of the reasons we like e3 Partners is that the team of roughly 500+   e3 staff & missionaries 'lean forward' in to the wind of life for Kingdom expansion. Though expansion depends on the King, the Lord allows you and I to position our 'talents' for His purposes.It is heartening that though Debbie and I are trainers with and for e3 Partners (focus Latin America and beyond) their home off...

Home from Los Mochis Mexico... off to Long Beach, CA Posted about over 9 years ago

The Lord remains good, yet this old guy (at 54!) is a bit pooped right now.Time in Mexico was essentially perfect, as roughly 50 in-country leaders were prepared, trained, inspired for their harvest in Mexico. Debbie (not Patrick :- ) has been asked to provided training in Long Beach CA for these next few days so, happily, I accompany Debbie to carry her luggage, drive the rental, eat her food ...

9 day fast trip....West Palm Beach and then Arkansas Posted about over 9 years ago

No beaches for me in West Palm Beach this weekend, but in His grace I have been asked to train 140 area leaders with 4 other trainer  (thank goodness) this weekend. 1))  See: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/generational-discipleship-training-4-fields-midlevel-april-10-11-in-west...I would really covet your prayers for me: for a) calmness of heart.  My forte is training in foreign / very foreign set...

OK..we admit it! Posted about over 9 years ago

We are lining up training for the rest of the year and into 2016.  Minutes ago I have purchase tickets for India / Nepal training (Nov 18 to Dec 8).  This will follow training in Mexico (Sept 26 to Oct 11) and Ecuador (Oct 11 to Nov 3).  Yes!  We 'push the envelope'...yet we do so so extend ourselves and to train others.  Additional training venues this year closer to home!  Bless you!  

We depart in a few hours for Costa Rica and Peru (via 4 days in Houston) Posted about almost 10 years ago

Yes, i am a bit nervous for the daunting invitation to train in Costa Rica this next week, with roughly 20 leaders coming from neighboring nations.  I want to go in the Spirit, and of course what as blessing it is to go with Debbie.  Our Costa Rica dates are Jan 26 to Feb 2, then we are off to Lima, Peru.  The Lord is good! Please uphold us to the Lord.Patrick

Starting with e3... Focus Latin America! Posted about almost 10 years ago

The Lord is good!  Though with sadness we say this month 'so long for now' to our previous agency of 26 years, we say 'thank you Lord ' for his invitation by e3 to join them for focus within Latin America so as to train and mentor in country leaders for discipleship and multiplication of new churches.   Thank you, Lord!  In a few days we depart for our fourth ministry trip to South America with...