In many Latin cultures, there is a big emphasis put on the family and specially on children. On Saturdays and Sundays the parks are full of families with their children, sometimes just laying out on a blanket or having a picnic. Once year they even have a day which is called Children's Day, where as you can imagine, the focus is celebrating children. Every school will have a … [Read more...]

One of the activities that we have had several times now, in our churches here, is to offer English classes to the community. The first time we had classes it was to start our first church and the majority of those that came, at the beginning were from the classes. Well our new church is almost a year old and we decided to have classes again to reach new people in the … [Read more...]

This past week, here in Cochabamba, we had one of the largest religious celebrations that takes place in all of Bolivia. Over three hundred thousand people come to the city and many of them walk almost ten miles from the center of Cochabamba to the city of Quillacollo and a chapel where a small statue of the virgen Mary stays called the Virgen of Urkupiña. It is amazing to see … [Read more...]

When I was younger, I always liked to play outside in the fields and woods on the farm where I grew up. There was something about being out side with he plants and trees. Now, I hated having to mow our yard, but loved to play out in it. When I got a little older, I liked landscaping, and even took it upon myself to do the landscaping around our house and pool. After I dug the … [Read more...]

When you speak of missions or ministry, many people automatically tune you out because they think that they are not equipped or that it isn’t for them. Often the idea is that if you are not a “missionary”, or “preacher” per se, that you can’t really do much for missions except give and pray. Now, don’t get me wrong. While I believe that those two things are vital to missions … [Read more...]