How my Birthday Became a Reminder of Jesus’s promise

August 18, 2013

I was just laying Isaiah down in bed on August 9th when I heard a guitar strumming in front of our house. So I picked Isaiah back up and went outside to investigate. This is what I found at my front door: It’s kind of a blurry photo, but it illustrates a special marker in […]

Grilling Fish in the Churrasqueira

August 18, 2013

A Day at the Pesque-Pague

August 18, 2013

It all started because I had told Jevon that I wanted a tambaqui for my birthday. That’s a fish we liked to eat when we lived in Manaus. And instead of being boring and going down to the meat store and buying a dead fish, he went all out and planned a fishing trip to […]

Dia dos Pais

August 18, 2013

Father’s Day in Brazil is the second Sunday of August. The Friday night before Father’s Day, Cali and Karina’s school had a presentation for all the Dads. The stage all decorated outside in front of the school. Waiting for the program to start. It started late because Brazilians are smart, and take time to feed […]

Natação

August 18, 2013

We are super thankful for the opportunity the girls have had to be in swimming lessons here in our little town. Not only has it been valuable for them to get the experience in the water with instruction and consistent practice, but it has also been good for them to get the social experience – […]

A Day at the Sítio

July 22, 2013

Karina trying to decide if she’s okay with these new sights and sounds and smells. 🙂 The farmer, Carlos, explaining to us that a sow gives birth to more piglets than she has nipples. So the piglets fight their way in and bite to hold on to mom and not get pushed off by other […]

Back home and at it again

July 13, 2013

There’s no way to express how good it was to be there for Amos and Cymbre’s wedding day. It was also very special to reconnect with family, the Meadowbrook church in Molalla, Oregon, and Salem in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. A huge thank you to our home church, Salem, for making this trip possible for us. […]

TO SALEM

July 13, 2013

Thank you, Salem, for helping with the expenses of the Danica’s and Isaiah’s trip, making it possible for them to be with you in Wisconsin as well as to be with her brother on his special day in Oregon, and thanks for taking such good care of them while they were in Wisconsin. Thank you, […]

F is for Flexible

January 20, 2013

F is for Flexible in both languages, actually – Enlish and Portuguese (“flexivel”). We are moving again. This all happened really fast and we just found out last week, during Encontro, that we were being asked by leadership to move to another city in another state of Brazil and finish our NCLA (National Culture and […]

Safety is from God

January 20, 2013

Sometimes Cali says she doesn’t want to live in Brazil because she thinks it’s dangerous. That’s when we remind her of the time we drove past a tornado on the Montana freeway and the time we slept with poisonous spiders in Kansas. Who kept us safe then? God. Who keeps us safe now? God. We […]