I managed a 2-day medical clinic in Purulha on Monday and Tuesday. We brought in a Guatemalan doctor from the capital at the last minute so that a visiting student doing a missions practicum could experience a medical clinic. We served about 80 people in all over the two days. Usually we serve many more, … [Read more…]
This was our Christmas Eve moon. We saw it rise over the mountains as we got home from a Christmas program at church (we left early as it started 1 hour late). We ate some traditional Christmas food (lentil-chicken wraps), opened some gifts from my old school in Spruce Grove, and then watched 2 Wonder … [Read more…]
alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta eta theta iota kappa lamda mu nu xi omicron pi rho sigma tau upsilon phi chi psi omega I’m trying to learn Greek. Not modern Greek. Greek of antiquity. I’m trying to gain an understanding of it so that I can ultimately read the New Testament in its original … [Read more…]
My recent days are dominated with identifying needy families to receive the gift of a stove, the training of how to use, care for, and install the stove, the order and delivery of the stoves, and ultimately the door-to-door delivery of the stoves and the installation. Once the stoves are installed I still need to … [Read more…]
Extend your hand to help the millions of children orphaned by AIDS and those afflicted with the disease itself. World AIDS Day site offers an opportunity to giveWorld Vision has many excellent programs reaching AIDS orphans around the worldSeed of Hope where my buddy Carl works in South Africa is right in the middle of … [Read more…]
Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees,who write oppressive statutes,to turn aside the needy from justiceand to rob the poor of my people of their right,that widows may be your spoil,and that you may make the orphans your prey!– Isaiah 10 Thursday night I visited with a couple widows in the small village of Chicoy. This … [Read more…]
Aside from the occasional seminar when teaching or youth pastoring, I haven’t been a student since April 2000 when I graduated from university. At that time I was so sick of school, after 5 long years, that I had no interest in furthering my formal education any time soon. Well, it’s been 7 1/2 years … [Read more…]
“You gotta be pretty bold to think that mankind is going to destroy what God has created. The earth is way above us. The only way the earth is going to be destroyed is when God says in His word when He turns it loose, when He makes a new heaven and a new earth. … [Read more…]
I’m not feeling well today – aches, a bit of nausea, zero energy. So what a better activity than measuring poor kids’ feet? Last week most of the kids were measured, but there were about 80 that still needed measuring so I did those today. Some of the kids were embarrassed to take their feet … [Read more…]
So, I was thinking tonight, again, how we can rarely have people over to our home in the evenings. We usually spend evenings alone as a family with the exception of Tuesday night when we have our church cell group. We watch movies or play games (Mariah does come over about once a week to … [Read more…]