Ecuador – Day 4: “The Boys of Casa G.”

Brad and Sandi are serving with Youth World, an arm of International Teams.  Brad oversees the organization that has five branch ministries.  Each of these have different yet powerful emphasis on reaching people for Christ.  Day 4, we went to a place that focuses on getting boys off of the streets, leading them to Christ [...]

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Ecuador – Day 3: “Hands On”

It is early as I write this and words are not quick to dribble off my fingers.  So permit me to describe my Day 3, Quito experience using the words of Jeremy Bautista …
“Dump ministry. I didn’t know what that really meant, even though its been talked about often. First of all, its important to [...]

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Ecuador day 2 – “Sameness”

I was surprised to find the word used for the title of this blog was actually … well … a word!  Loosely, the word sameness means having qualities that are similar or the same in comparison to others.  Such was my experience — or maybe awareness — of day two in Quito.
Much of the time, [...]

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Ecuador – “Kenzie would have loved this!”

“Kenzie would have loved this!”  How many times has that phrase bounced around in my thoughts over the past few months as our family discovers it’s new normal without her.  On this occasion, that phrase is bouncing off the well worn plaster walls of the small streets of Quito, Ecuador.  (If you don’t know why [...]

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Ecuador – We Made It!

 
Just a quick update to let everyone know that we made it safe and sound.  God is already at work.  He smoothed out the details of the flight, getting the shoes (and turkey) through Ecuadorian customs and connecting with Brad and Sandi Miller.  Today is a day of acclimating to climate and culture.
 
I’ll be doing [...]

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June 3rd’s Daily Devotion

One of the daily devotional books that I occasionally read is titled “Streams in the Dessert.”  The pages are filled with wisdom and the Lord usually times the entries with what I need to hear, know or do.
I just happened to look up June 3rd in the devotional; the day of the accident that claimed [...]

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In Her Own Words

In that process of hoarding Makenzie memories, we stumbled upon a disc drive containing picture and videos of years past. Scrolling through them, we discovered Makenzie’s 8th grade graduation speech. I share this with you not to show how beautiful she is or to compare her to your children. But I [...]

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UP

I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie UP. If you have offspring still hovering around your kneecaps, my guess is, you have. A wonderful story put to film about an older man who vows to finish a dream he and his wife held before she died; to live in their house next [...]

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Tributes

Makenzie danced all over the United States. Missouri, Minnesota, Arizona, Louisiana, Texas, New York; many were impacted by this little ballerina named Makenzie. As a result of her influence and after she was killed, tributes of all sorts were created by those who love her. Youtube hosts many of these done by her [...]

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Thanks for the Memories

This past Sunday we celebrated ‘All Saints Day’ in the Church calendar. The day holds deep meaning and reverence as Christians everywhere remember those who have “gone before us” (as we gently say); those who, by God’s Grace, have been brought into His arms and whose lives while on earth, serve as examples to [...]

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