About

Jeanne and I are Nebraska farm kids that met at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.  We went to the Philippines in January 1979 as lay missionaries.  We officially retired in 2014 in northern Illinois to be near our children and grandchildren.  We started RN Idea Shop a year later as a basis for selling crafts.  Then I got a part time job at McHenry County College and our business was put on hold, only to be used as an accounting and tax structure when people hired us for various services from house cleaning to tutoring. 

The “Mission work archive” page of this website was created as a repository for some of the literature from our years in Cebu City and Davao City in case anyone wants to use it or reference it.