Missions isn't all salt and tears. There are unexpected blessings for following Christ overseas. In our specific case, one of t...

downtown Los Menucos, aka Curi Leuvú  We've only been here eight months. We are by no means experts. On anything. We only kno...

My blog friend, Annie, submitted a comment recently and asked several questions,   ".... Is it like you imagined? Do you find joy...

{written Mother's Day... finally finishing up and adding pics four days later...} I am sitting in bed blogging on my laptop. What a tr...

Marcela and Ceferino are rebuilding. This will be their new house.     I got to see on Saturday how it's coming along. The ...

Tony and I have talked a lot lately about how long we will be here. We have been going through a rough time. He always says don't worry,...

Jim Elliot, in his Journals , wrote about how nine-tenths of his daily life in the jungles of Ecuador seemed to be taken up with simply figh...

Tony is very sick. Same thing he had when we got here . Hard core antibiotics, various analgesics, cough meds, nebulizer treatments. No...

This week was massively busy. That's what life is now: Busy. And since school has officially started here in the southern hemisphere, it...

Tony with Marcela's kids and Dani, practically our adopted son at this point "If any man will do His will, he shall know of th...

Living in denial is crocheting a warm fuzzy hat even though it's 100 degrees out. We all need ways to cope. Two of the ways I cope are...

Thanks for all the recent comments and the de-lurking, it really made our day! We were laughing out loud at some of the comments, our hearts...

Another day. Another water run to the slums. Marcela, Ceferino, their children - and everyone else up on the edge of the slums we have bee...

Found this post in Drafts. lol This is a random day and peek into my Mommy life and brain, and attempt at stream of consciousness writing......

"For troubles without number surround me... and my heart fails within me." ~ Psalm 40:12  the view from our apartment turne...