This past Friday and Saturday evenings I went to hear Leif Hetland speak. Leif heads up a missions organization called Global Missions Awareness. He has my unabashed admiration. He goes where most of us wouldn’t even consider going and does what most of us look at in absolute amazement. He is an inspiration and is […]
Funerals suck
People often query me as to why I’ll use certain vocabulary. “Don’t you know that is rather vulgar?” Actually, I do. And that is often the point of it. I want your attention. You’ll not find me using the George Carlin‘s famous seven words that can’t be used on television; in fact, the “nice” derivatives […]
Júnior
“What’s your name?” “Júnior” “So, how do you say it in English?” “Junior” And with that began our relationship with our artist-painter-teacher who would go to Ubaúna with us to help the children express themselves artistically. Júnior, who had no idea who we were before this encounter, had volunteered to go somewhere he’d never gone […]
As far as the eye can see
I love this passage: I promise you… ‘Wherever you set foot, you will be on land I have given you… No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. For I will be with you… I will not fail you or abandon you. —Joshua 1 This photo overlooks the valley […]
1, 2, 3… Go!
How do you like these names: Ubaúna, Tianguá, Araticum? Weird, huh? To me, they are some of the sweetest words to roll off my lips. They are all towns in northeastern Brazil where Gospel for Brazil has churches that are up and running. This trip added Araticum and Tianguá into the fold. Other new names […]