My sojourns in the desert of northeastern Brazil brought me in contact with some really weird people. Danilo and Fatima. Both in their mid-30’s, Danilo is an engineer and his wife Fatima is a school teacher. Danilo was making $7,000 (US) a month in his job. Both walked away from it to move to a […]
I’m not real happy about this
You might recall my displeasure at having to tell a couple of mothers that I had nothing to offer her for her hungry children the other day. It happened again. While in Paxólas, a slum area on the outskirts of Ubaúna, we were updating pictures of Seed of Hope children. A mother comes up to […]
Tough Choices
How do you choose who gets fed and who doesn’t? It’s not a theoretical question, it is very real. In Ubaúna we have 123 kids who have been sponsored through the Seed of Hope program. Through the support of $30 per month by Americans, they get a meal a day, clothing, rudimentary medical attention and […]
Faithless fear
Here we go again! I go off into the middle of the desert and God just shows up and messes me up… What so many folks say is faith is actually fear. It doesn’t matter how they dress it up and parade it around, calling it high and lofty names… it is simply a masquerade. […]
Warriors
Guess what I’ll get to do in a week? Play big brother to a band of warriors! We take so much for granted in the U.S., including the way we do church and faith. Even for a non-believer who becomes a believer, there is some form of a path to take to learn more about […]