When I left my church in Canada (before coming here to Bolivia) it was a bit of an abrupt and difficult parting of the ways. I didn’t see it coming and it kind of left me reeling. When I think about my years in ministry, there are probably three different times that were my “I’m not sure I still want to do this.” moments. That was one of them. I’m just on the tail end of another.
One night back then, when I was smack in the middle of the worst of my frustrations and hurt, I was driving down to Caronport to visit some friends. Being me, I didn’t...
Monday, February 27, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Bolivia has a "Day" for everything. "Day of the Mother", "Day of the Father", "Day of the Student", "Day of the Worker", "Day of Friendship", "Day of the Woman", "Day of the Navy", "Day of the Child"....there are many more that I forget.
So...why not "The Day of Ken"?
It seems my friends Jorge and Tonchy feel bad that I've had a few lame weeks/months here so they've declared tomorrow my "Day". It feels...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Carnival 2012 is nearly over. Just as well...I was getting tired of trying to keep the guys occupied. Tomorrow life goes back to normal. Well...normal for us anyhow...
This is a little video of the three day, ongoing waterfight that took place between us and our neighbours. It was pretty entertaining. It escaladed every day. I also have video of us waterballooning people from the back of my truck. I'll put that video up sometime this week too.
Anyhow...this is life in Bolivia this week. En...
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Mario is the little kid who lives across the street from us. When we first moved in, he somehow figured out what my name was and everytime I drove up in my truck, he would start yelling, "Ken! Ken! Ken!" etc. until I acknowleged him. If I didn't say "Hola Mario!" or wave at him, he would just keep yelling my name. At the time he could barely even walk.
Now he's bigger. And he's decided we're friends and he should be able to come visit whenever he wants. =) Which is fine. He's a cute...
Friday, February 17, 2012
To balance all the seriousness here lately, I offer you this. Yimy, Jose Manuel and Americo's first view of snow. Well...sort of snow. Hail really. But close enough. They'd never seen either before...
It was lots of fun! Ignore me cutting off the guy in the van. He didn't honk so it wasn't even close....
So that makes it an earthquake, a tornado and an epic hail storm in the past few months for Cochabamba. I think "End of Days" is starting in Coch...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The intensity of what’s happening here seems to me to be unique. That the emotions I’m feeling are more raw and overwhelming than they’ve been in the past. That this moment in my ministry is somehow going to define me and the fact that I feel finished actually means that I am.
But yea…reality is…not so much.
It’s true that I’ve never had a run of such difficult situations like I’ve had recently. And it’s also true that I feel emotionally raw and overwhelmed. And it’s absolutely true that if someone offered me a ministry on a beach where no one...
Friday, February 10, 2012
I feel like I post a lot of rather vague messages here sometimes, asking for prayer. I imagine in my head that people get tired of that...or think I’m being overly dramatic or something. I’m sure that lots of you will say that that’s not true, but that’s how it feels in my head. My head’s a funny place some days.
So then I don’t always ask for prayer when we actually do need it. Especially when it’s a run of tough stuff and every post would be virtually the same.
“It’s a rough day. Can you pray for us?”
“It’s a rough day. Can you pray for us?”
“No,...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Random story for the day. When my parents were here my mom was folding my laundry (miss you Mom) and she held up a t-shirt and asked me if it was mine. I looked at it and it looked like a knock-off Abercrombie and Fitch shirt. So I said, yea, I guess so. I've got a couple of those kicking around. They're cheap here.
Then she said "Really?" in that tone that mothers get sometimes. So I read it again. ...
Friday, February 3, 2012
Here we are in Febuary and I still haven't posted Christmas pictures. Well...this is me attempting to catch up a bit. Here are some pictures from Christmas Eve with the kids from the children's home we cooked supper for. The quality of the pics aren't great...they're from my phone...but you get the general idea. =)
Jose Carlos "decorating"...
Waiting for the food!
The ladies preparing the plates...
The guys serving supper...
Three...
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