Sad news- Melagros

April 10, 2011

We just received word this afternoon, that after a couple days of being sick, Melagros has passed away. We had been told that with her having cerebral palsy that someday she would likely get sick and that it would be bad and then she would likely die quickly. We are very sad for this loss […]

Colouring

April 9, 2011

Many days I have little girls coming up to me saying, “Ate…colour???” Although the word colour doesn’t quite sound like we are used to hearing it, I have learned what they want to do. The kids in the village love to come and colour on our porch! It is one fun thing that our girls […]

2011 Community Projects

April 9, 2011

#1 WELLS One of the community projects that has been sitting on the back burner of our minds, so to speak, is to improve the availability and quality of water in our village. This was one of the original requests of the people when we asked them if we could live with them 3 years […]

Typhoon Megi (aka Juan)

October 25, 2010

As many of you have seen and heard from the news over the past week, our tribal area was directly hit by very powerful typhoon. Typhoon Megi, also known as Juan here in the Philippines was a category 5 when it made landfall last Monday. Even after passing over a mountain range and crossing approximately […]

Babies, babies, everywhere!

July 4, 2010

Over the last several months there have been quite a lot of babies born in the village. Here are just a few of Jenna’s future playmates: From left to right: Charon with baby boy Ray- 2 months; me, Shannon with Jenna- 2 1/2 months; Helia with baby girl Love Joy- 3 months; Amelia with baby […]