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Activities for Travel–What’s in Our Travel Bag of Tricks?
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Traveling with a Toddler: Packing Tips and The Airport
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The Fiddler
What’s the one thing English majors love more than books? FREE books! As a former English major, when I heard that Bethany House Publishing was looking for people to review their books, I rushed to sign up. I recently received my (free) copy of The Fiddler. Surprisingly, I don’t believe I’ve ever read anything by […]
Pacaya Ate My Tennis Shoes (by Rachael)
What did we do for our fourth anniversary? Oh, you know, the usual–climbed an active volcano, stuck our head in the crater, barely avoided a deadly avalanche.. Climbing Pacaya Volcano–July 2009 If you happen to be in Guatemala during your fourth anniversary (and you think like Nate) then you might as well celebrate your years […]
A Promise Kept
Our visit with Daniel and his family was too short (like all of our visits with him are!), but we end today feeling like we did what we came here to do. Daniel’s uniform is ordered. and he’s enrolled in a seemingly great school (run by compassionate nuns) that will send us emails and updates. […]
The Dump and a Field Trip–Final Day in Guate
This morning we had a new and interesting experience: we went to the dump. The big dump in the middle of the city is a pseudo-city that supports 11,000 people and is the size of twenty seven football fields. Our wonderful friend, Berta, now works for a ministry that serves the dump scavengers. Her ministry, […]
Baby A in Guatemala
Today was our day to relax and let my parents be tourists. We took a break from Casa Bernabe and spent some time in Antigua. Later, we stopped by to see the other child we sponsor, a girl named Alejandra who lives in a place called New Life Children’s Home. Because we were able to […]
Can you find the Philippines? (by Rachael)
We can’t remember the exact date, but a few years before we got married (so, let’s say, six or seven years ago?) we decided to sponsor a little boy named Kerwin Dave through World Vision. We choose Kerwin in part because we wanted our sponsor child to live in a country we might be able […]
Why every Christian is called to rescue orphans
Roxy Bertsch, a good friend from church and InterVarsity, sent us this article from the latest issue of Christianity Today. I loved the paragraph where the author addressed his fear of not being able to love an adopted child: “I was at first reluctant to adopt, because I assumed an adopted child would always be […]