Here are some of the crazy, wonderful & intense things we’ve experienced in the last month: – 5 inches of rain in one hour on my birthday. The storm meant I could be home with family and our visiting friends instead of teaching six hours of English! – a new baby on my birthday. A [...]
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October-November adventures
Posted in Posts on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Nathan
Posted in Posts on October 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Big Storm We lived through a HUGE storm. It hailed so hard and was so windy our big flowery Bougainvillea fell down! It also rained. It rained so hard that the high school yard – all the grass – was water! Our front yard was also flooded and so was the side (the space [...]
By Samuel
Posted in Posts on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
29/09 The Big Hailstorm This was the biggest storm I have ever been through. Two of the Floyds came over. They were named Luke and David. They have an older brother, whose name was Daniel, but he stayed behind in San Francisco with his dad. Well, in the middle of the night, I heard a [...]
Winter Youth Camp July, 2009
Posted in Posts on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
from Dan… The morning of the winter youth camp broke cloudy but without rain. It had rained for the three days before and no buses were running out of Yuty. Would camp be canceled? Should we go? My hope was for cancellation so we would not be the party poopers, and since things in rural [...]
Christmas Kids’ Club
Posted in Posts on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our goal in Yuty is to plant an independent, mature church. Sometimes it seems like it won’t happen for a long time, as we have only a handful of believers so far, but there are encouragements along the way. The biggest of those encouragements was this month’s Christmas Kids’ Club, dreamed up and organized [...]
Living Far Away
Posted in Posts on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Living Far Away There’s a verse in the Psalms that says, “Those living far away fear your wonders.” (65:8) I’ve often thought of that as applying to people in whatever country I’m not in, but after a trip to a remote family of believers last week, I now have a different idea of who [...]
Grace Reflections
Posted in Posts, tagged Add new tag, Grace, poem, reflections on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dan here. When we were in Charlotte this February ’08 I sat beside a rather slow, rather dirty little stream one afternoon to read. Looking at the little stream I was mesmerized by the amazingly perfect reflection there of what was above and around. As I sat I wrote this poem as an attempt to freeze that moment in time [...]
Welcome
Posted in Posts, tagged Posts on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to you from us, Dan and Christie. This is our new web presence, a place where we will post occasional thoughts, personal news and news about our church and our friends in Yuty, and other items. Sometimes we will include posts with stuff our boys teach us, to help us laugh and cry. Reflections [...]
