I bought whole wheat flour from the market here in Bolivia a week ago. I try to buy enough that I only need to go into the city every 2’nd week, since we have our own little vegetable garden, it makes it even more possible.

I started to measure off the flour to bake some bread, […]

Tuesday morning even smelled like Independence Day. I stashed several watermelons to cool in the creek, and split some firewood for the kitchen, while the kids went to march in Yata to fulfill our legal obligation as an accredited school to participate in a minimum of one civic event annually.´

This was the first time that […]

I couldn’t stop my thoughts the night before last, and a host of family and friends passed through my mind and I lifted them (you) up to God. I began to feel sad as I realized how many opportunities I have squandered throughout my life, opportunities to take more of an interest in the welfare […]

The government of Cameroon made a strange move to close schools, especially private schools. So our school in Lassin was closed. This normally takes place under a lot of pressure, people coming out with force to close it. At one of these forceful movements to close our school the authorities said that they would make […]

When we got to the bus station, it was just in time to start boarding. Just then the bus driver, the loader and the ticket collector told us we have too many bags. The rule is two bags per person but we had six in all. We tried our best to find ways around the […]

While in Congo I did a fair amount of dental work. This was the first time I did any significant amount of pulling teeth independently. What I mean is that before, I worked at the hospital in Chad with other people that also knew some or a lot about pulling teeth. Last summer I had

the […]

We are having a very blessed Sabbath as we reflect on how this trip has effected and changed each of our lives. All of us have been changed. We have seen firsthand the great need that is in our world to know Jesus. The places we have been and the people we have met are […]

I just want to share the story about how Helen and I got our residency in Bolivia.

On the 18th of February we turned our passports in with our paperwork. Helen was applying for 2 year residency and I was applying for permanent residency.

On the 28th of February Ximena turned in the request to borrow our […]

We have been back in Chad (from our trip to Congo) for two and a half weeks now. We just finished our first 8-day training session at Kelo, a town about 45km west of here.

We traveled by motorbike and arrived there Friday afternoon. The last time we traveled that road was on our way out […]

Kromeriz is a city in the Czech Republic, and it has a strong catholic influence. There are statues everywhere in the city to remind the people of their catholic background. There is a beautiful garden with wild animals. Tropical parrots and monkeys were there in the snow along with beautiful deer, rabbits, goats, doves and […]