Author: Chuck and Shannon Talbot

Kyle spent the first week of February with a group of homeschool kids at Taal Volcano and surrounding area.  His homeschool group joined close to 200 middle school kids from Faith Academy in Manila.  They had a great time snorkeling, scuba diving, feeding local school kids, killing chickens and cooking them.  They hiked to the […]

  Last Monday we celebrated the birth of our baby girl, Beatrice!  It is hard to believe that we saw her with our eyes for the first time a year ago.  Time sure goes by too fast.  I am not ready to have my baby grow up. Bea certainly keeps us busy.  She is a busy little […]

When we began moving into the village we live in nearly 5 years ago, we had talked candidly about the idea of electricity coming our way…way in the future.  When we returned to the village this past summer Chuck was out in the bush with a man from here and noticed some concrete markers.  He […]

Ever since we had our first emergency medical flight in 2011 we have had it on our mind that we need to set money aside to help fund emergencies in the future. We looked for donors who wanted to contribute regularly to this fund while we were home but no one came along. Then shortly […]

  A year ago we were in the early communication process with a young lady from North Carolina who was seeking the Lord about coming to the Philippines to teach our kids. We were very excited at the prospect of having a teacher but I didn’t want to get my hopes up as there had been […]