Author: Eric and Cherie Daum

Merry Christmas! We are so thankful for you all and miss everyone a lot especially during this holiday season. But even as we feel homesick, I am reminded of Christ and how we are celebrating the choice he made to leave his home in heaven and come to this world to be a sacrifice for […]

Dear friends and coworkers, I sat down to write this update and I didn’t know where to start. So much of this past month and a half has not gone according to plan. We left the country the beginning of September in order to process our more long term visas to work here. We expected […]

Hello everyone, We have finally moved to our region of service where we will begin our second half of national language and culture study. We will also begin to build relationships with the local church that we will work alongside while we are here. There was a family living here with a different organization who […]

Hello everyone, we have officially been here for a year. It has been a crazy year with lots of ups and downs. We wanted to thank you so much for supporting us and encouraging us as we continue to work and represent the Lord in our lives here on the other side of the world. […]

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, […]

As I was trying to think of how to communicate how life has been for us, I came across this picture and thought it described it quite accurately. Both Eric and I have felt exhausted and drained from the steady week after week putting in the hours of language study. Sometimes it seems to be […]

I(Eric) have heard about the deep freeze happening in the States, and although we have only been here for about six months, I really feel adjusted to the temperatures here, when it drops below seventy-five it is almost noticeably chilly, and I am not sure how long I would survive anymore in such a frigid […]