Our Stories...

I have a couple of friends. They’re not my only friends...but they’re good friends. Very good friends. We were rebellious youth pastor’s together back in the day. We have many stories that are best not shared here. Each year when I come home to Canada we get together and do something fun. I think they’re trying to relive the wild days of our early years in ministry. It’s understandable really...they’re both senior pastors now. I live in South America...

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Hanging out at the river...

If you're feeling a little bored and you want a smile...this is a short video of some of the guys showing off for the camera when we went to the river a couple of weeks ago.  They're entertaining....  =...

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Roadtrip!

No new news on Jose Manuel...so I'm guessing that's good.  Tim (one of our interns from Canada) is sick though.  Stomach stuff...  The doc has him on meds and a special diet.  It sounds like he'll be fine, but pray for him.  Being sick in a foriegn country is lame. Things are going well so far in Canada.  The weather's been nice and it's been great seeing people.  But since that's about all I've got to say, I thought...

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Prayer Request

I've been gone for less than a week and one of the guys in the house decided to go into the hospital for emergency surgery to get his appendix out.  Jose Manuel was feeling sick before I left, but we thought it was Dengue.  He seemed a bit better, but then over the weekend he got worse.  Sunday after church he went to see a doctor and the the doctor told him he had to get his appendix out.  So he did. He's still in the hospital so feel free to pray for him.  He's got a fever, but Maribel told me he's doing better. ...

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To the least of these...

You'd think that with so much poverty and suffering around, it'd be easy to maintain a heart of compassion and concern for the people I see every day. But no. Being a missionary doesn't automatically make you Super Christian Guy or anything. I get lazy and indifferent just like most people do. And like most people, I need the occasional slap upside the head from God. Last night I was hanging out with a buddy of mine. On the way home we stopped to grab something to eat. My friend asked me if I was going to eat anything (there’s not a lot I can...

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La Jornada - "The Journey"

This is our story.... dream   In 2006, while working at a home for guys coming off the streets, God gave me an idea. It was the dream of something better for the young men I was working with, the dream of a life free from the bondages and addictions of the past. Due to abuse or abandonment, these boys had ended up on the streets, often as young as six or seven years old. Some had been born onto the streets by parents who lived there. The...

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