Archive for the 'Day2Day' Category

Fear Invades Mérida

“Mérida is a tranquil place.” the residents enjoy saying, but this headline from today’s edition of the Diario de Yucatán seems to suggest that things may be changing.

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Meeting the Need?

The poor, we’ll always have them with us the Bible says, but have we desensitized ourselves to their need? Follow along with one missionary’s journey to make a difference in one’s couple’s life.

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Oh the Humanity, Continued

A lot has happened medical-wise since the first humanity post. This post updates the situation surrounding Dave’s nose.

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Life from the other perspective

Although not one to devote space for plugs, sometimes special circumstances warrant a change in policy!

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Like riding a bicycle

We got a chance to take the kids out to help them learn to ride their bikes this Saturday. One of the drawbacks of being a missionary kid is the lack of a constant environment and routine in which one can learn basic kid things like riding a bicycle. Well, Rebekah is now […]

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Dealing with the Heat

To the left you’ll find a picture of our speedometer in our Ford Expedition. The thermometer (numbers on the bottom) read 102. That reading was taken in late August as we crossed the border between Texas and Mexico. Imagine my surprise when this Thursday I looked down to see a reading of […]

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Opportunity Knocks

Dividing up duties in my hermeneutics (Bible interpretation) class with Paul, I got a chance to lead the group in making observations about the texts that they had been given for homework.
What they were assigned to do was to determine the component parts of the passage, verbs, pronouns, conjunctions and the like, as […]

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What God is teaching me these days…

Guy Muse who writes the M Blog, has started a series on what God is teaching him these days. In part from his inspiration, and in part from the events of this past week, I’d like to chime in and share what God has been sharing with us these days.
Sometimes it takes more […]

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Taking time

When I wrote down my thoughts at the beginning of the year, I intended to form a base from which to work, a foundation on which I could build the rest of my missionary life. But, as many of realize, our intentions are not always what get carried out. My conversation teacher, Giselle […]

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Sickness, missionary ingenuity and why tubs are scarce in Costa Rica

Well you can’t tell from the picture, but this week found Jonathan sick for the third time in 2 weeks. This time with a fever. We are now in the start of the rainy season here, and like what happens in the States during the onset of winter, it seems like people come […]

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