Friends, family and readers here. I am continually blessed when I think about how many have supported Kim and I through the years, and more importantly how many people care about what we do… it’s all kinds of awesome, and for that I want to say a huge THANK YOU in advance.
This year the trip to Venezuela will be sans Kim as she will be leading her own trip down to Florida to the Lighthouse Family Retreat with some of the middle schoolers and their parents in Transit. Continue Reading…
Venezuela, Otra Vez!
When asked during our first meeting this past Sunday why I wanted to go on a short-term mission trip to Venezuela again, this time I sort of stumbled a little on my answer.
Out of the 14 people who are going this year, I felt like I really couldn’t give an exact or “clear” answer as to why I wanted to go. My answer was that I wanted to go because I feel like I have something more to give, not just to the people we will be serving, but this time to and for our team. I’m not exactly great at communicating my thoughts, but I do know there’s a tension there that I should pay attention to. It sounds weird in my head, but the rest of the team all nodded as though what I said made complete sense… so I’ll leave it at that. Continue Reading…
…and I’ve finally gone through all of the photographs and picked the ones that:
Check ‘em out! Continue Reading…
If you’ve talked to Kim and I prior to visiting Venezuela, you would know that without a shadow of a doubt we were going to submit our formal application to adopt a little boy from outside of the US, and that the trip would help us understand more that what we are trying to do is the right thing, and God’s will.
However, if you talk to us now you would hear the voices of uncertainty. Continue Reading…
On the 3rd day of our trip, I was inspired to get some of the readers here to write a letter or 2 to these boys, to give them some encouragement as they go through the program over at Project Jonas. You can read about it a little more here, and here.
To say you met our expectations with your response, would be a complete and utter lie. Although this project may have seemed a bit ambitious at first, that should not have given me the excuse to think that 1, not 40 people would write letters. You see I was once told to never underestimate your audience no matter the medium
This was definitely an example of that. Continue Reading…
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