Road trip to La Paz...

... So yea, I’m working on bringing the guys with me to Canada this summer. We’re all excited about it (as it seems many of you are), although I’m discovering that it’s not an easy process for sure. There are more than a few hoops to jump through. Last week I took Andres with me and headed up to La Paz to speak to people at the Canadian Consulate. I knew they wouldn’t tell me a definitive yes or no, but I wanted them to see me and put a face to...

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WAR!!

... Civil war has finally broken out in Bolivia. There’s been quite a bit of fighting in the streets and today it spread from the centre areas of the city into the outlying neighbourhoods. People were even fighting in our neighbourhood earlier today. It’s crazy....neighbours are fighting neighbours and family members are against family members. It’s pretty brutal. We ventured out for a bit this afternoon and actually got caught in some of the...

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And the battle rages on...

... A quick disclaimer...I’m changing a few of the details about the kid involved in this post for obvious reasons. But everything else is just how it happened. So last Friday evening, a young guy I know came over to the house to visit. He’s a good kid, someone I’ve known for a lot of years. I’m going to call him Jose for simplicity’s sake. He had some things he wanted to talk about, so we sat down on my couch and started to talk. As the conversation progressed, we ended up getting into some things that I don’t think he’d originally planned to...

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A quick prayer request...

... Well...we could use some prayer down here.  Tonight here at the house, we had one of the craziest spiritual attack/battles I've ever experienced...in my life...and now I leave in four and a half hours...for three days.  I know it'll be fine, but I'm still a little...not really nervous exactly...I just wish I was going to be around.  Our pastor is going to make sure he hangs out here while I'm gone, but it would be great to know that people back home are praying specifically for this.  If you could pray for protection...

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The simplest things...

... Who knew God would use something as simple as a Coke bottle to open a door and bring a deeper understanding of a heart and the issues there that needed to be dealt with. I mean...I guess I did know that...but somehow it still comes as a surprise to me some days...how God uses the simplest things. One of the guys came into my room last week. He sat on the bed and we started making normal small talk. We chatted for a couple of minutes and then he got kind of quiet. I just sat there, since I wasn’t quite sure what was going on. Then he started...

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