Time travel, New beginnings, and Oleh-Oleh!

June 3, 2019

Early this May we had a great trip visiting Cherie’s parents in Paraguay for a couple of weeks and also were able to attend Cherie’s brother’s wedding. Traveling 13 time zones is pretty surreal, our longest flight left Sydney, Australia at noon on the 7th, we flew across the pacific ocean and landed in Santiago, […]

Final Results

June 1, 2019

May 31, 2019 by Stephen and Ginger Jordan Sports Bible Camp 2019 For those who prefer just knowing the final score and not every play-by-play detail, please allow us to give you the “final results” of SBC (Sports Bible Camp 2019): Collectively, the players of SBC said their memory verses over 8,000 times throughout the […]

Don’t Be A Cow

June 1, 2019

As a general rule, I think we tend to take things for granted. We go through each day, utilizing incredibly advanced technologies, interacting with amazingly unique people, and experiencing wondrously special events, and we do it in a ho-hum sort of way, like a cow flicking a fly off its buttocks with its tail. The […]

Ragnarok: The Final Semester Of PQQ!

May 31, 2019

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Preparation for the Philippines

May 31, 2019

Thank you for your prayers for us. We have put on many miles on our car. In April we traveled to Wisconsin to speak at one of our supporting churches and saw many friends and family along the way. Plus, we were able to spend some time with our son, Ben, and his family before […]

Final Results

May 31, 2019

For those who prefer just knowing the final score and not every play-by-play detail, please allow us to give you the “final results” of SBC (Sports Bible Camp 2019): Collectively, the players of SBC said their memory verses over 8,000 times throughout the village, often taking up to three hours per day per player, many […]

Remember Who Does the Measuring

May 30, 2019

As a task oriented person, I have a running to do list. Things I would like to be able to cross off (or in my case erase off my whiteboard.) But every week it seems like I cross 2 off and add 4 new ones. It was that way at home, but here it seems […]

Countdown

May 29, 2019

Greetings Friends, As summer is upon us, we are feeling our countdown clock beginning. “Countdown to what?” you ask. Every three years or so, we schedule a trip to our home country (America). This scheduled trip is called “furlough” or “home assignment”. Looking back at a picture of our family from three years ago helps […]

15 Beds and Counting

May 28, 2019

I’ve slept in 15 beds since Easter, not to mention the two nights I spent in airplanes. It’s been a whirlwind of a trip, from a big Senegalese city, to the pristine beaches of Guinea, to the tropical forest of Guinea-Bissau, to the fashionable streets of Paris. Since I can’t share everything in this post, […]

Snips and Snails and Puppy-dog Tails…

May 28, 2019

Often, I write about specific incidents that I’ve experienced in our overseas “adventure.” Sometimes, I write about broader, more topical subjects. But, mostly, I just whine about petty personal inconveniences as though they are on equal standing with the Kennedy assassination. As this is a family blog though, I thought I’d take a moment to take the focus off ME, […]