Peru
A few pictures of my time serving in Peru
Come. Come, all of you.
A few days before our team left Las Moras, Andrea told me about something she had dreamed. Dreams are very important to the Nahuatl people, and they often find meaning, signs, or omens in what they see while they sleep. Andrea said that she and a handful of others were standing on an outcropping of […]
Around the World
My time away from the tribe has been an exciting mix of catching up with old friends, making new ones, and sharing about what God is doing among the Nahuatl. Between speaking at churches, visiting friends, and attending a literacy conference, I’ve managed to log over 25,000 miles. That’s enough to make a lap around […]
Playing Aunties, Conclusion
Friday 10:00 am: We discover that Dario has been “hiding” his favorite toys and the socks I’ve lent him in the basket that holds the dog treats. That way he doesn’t have to share them with the other kids who come to play. Friday 12:30 pm: The kids are hungry and lunch isn’t ready yet. […]
The Well
Those Who Will Make a Hole For months now we have been talking to the Nahuatl about “yehwanti del takoyonaski” or “those who will make a hole.” On the 18th two workers from Living Water arrived in our village with a huge well-drilling rig in the back of their truck. We praised God for their […]
June Update
We’re Hitting Dung For the past few weeks Rachel and I have been working, along with several neighborhood ladies, to get our house stuccoed before the rains come. Naturally, we tried to learn a little while we worked. I kept asking my friend Andrea, “What are we doing now?” At one point she said, “Tiwihtehtí […]
Cramming for My Test As always, time is ticking right along, and with a dental clinic in April and a work team in May, it surprised me to realize that June is just around the corner. During the beginning of that month, our consultant will be coming to town to give our team language tests. […]
Merry Christmas from Las Moras!
Merry Christmas from Mexico! Our team is currently out in the city completing the paperwork necessary to stay and minister in this country. We are enjoying the hot showers, cold drinks, and internet that go along with civilization. Besides filling out forms, we will do some canning, buy supplies, and get ready for our return […]
November Update
Mucha Chamba… Mucha chamba is a Spanish mountain phrase that means “lots of work” and is a great way of describing our team’s last month. We arrived in Las Moras in late October and jumped right into cleaning the house, moving adobe bricks, and getting ready for a work team. When they arrived, things really […]
October Update
Home Again… In the first days of October our team was excited to reunite and return to Mexico. I spent a week helping our new teammates, the Hypkis, pack and clean their house for the move. Once settled in Durango, my other co-workers and I got busy unpacking, sorting, canning meat, buying supplies, and re-packing […]