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

Commissioning

On Sunday, January the 8th of the year 2012 the Payne family was commissioned by Grace Community Church in Gresham Oregon to go to do the work of the ministry of Cadence International in South Korea. Sounds rather formal doesn’t it? In preparing to write this post I looked up …

Nate gets a “Black Belt”

This week was Nate’s last week in Taekwondo at the Gresham/Sandy West Coast Taekwondo Studios that he has been a part of the last year. It has been a great year for Nate and he has done very well. Tonight they had a going away celebration for Nate and he …

December 2011 e-Update Newsletter

Click Here for the downloadable color PDF version For the last several years our tradition has been to have a large Christmas breakfast and invite over family and friends to share it with us. Some of you participated in that annual event. This year we will not be doing our …

Transition–Not real easy.

As we begin to make the transition from our life here to our new adventure in South Korea a flood of emotions have been running through me. I have no doubt and am not wavering in our calling to serve Christ in South Korea with Cadence, but what is left …

Nate’s Taekwondo Tournament

On October 6th – 9th I went to Las Vegas, Nevada to compete in the Pan Am Open International Taekwondo tournament. My parents were at a missions conference so they weren’t able to come with me. My mom dropped me off at the airport. Once we got to security I …

Sticker Shock

I was pretty excited when we got “released to the field” and immediately began preparing for the transition. I created my mental checklist of all the things that had to be done set right in on those that I was able to work on right away. One of the first …

Marriage: A shadow and a promise

Last month I had the great privilege of officiating the marriage of my oldest daughter Nicole to her new husband James. It was my first time officiating a marriage along with the pressure of it being the first of my children to marry. I have to admit that I was …