One of the greatest prayer warriors I know is my mom. She is constantly praying for someone new. She is not just someone who says yeah I will pray for you and just stores the prayer request into a full jar of other prayer request she promised to pray for but never did. She diligently […]
This past week in Brazil taught me so much about myself and my relationship with Christ. I walked away after this week wondering why I am willing to take off to another country and walk in a strange neighborhood to meet people in hopes of being able to share the gospel with them. I came […]
Well I got home from Brazil yesterday morning. What an incredible trip! I will try to write tomorrow and give you a recap of the whole trip. I wanted to blog today of how lucky I am. The one thing I missed the most is my amazing wife. We are coming up on our two […]
Hello everyone! What a great day we have had here. This morning we loaded up and went back to the favelas. On our way into the favelas, we always stop some place to use the restroom. This time we stopped at a place that was very interesting. […]
Hey everyone. Here is a very quick update from Yesterday and today.
Yesterday we spent a long time in the favelas. It is so great to see our team being so personable with the people in the favelas. We spent most of our time doing different hut visits. We then got our butts […]
Oi! (Hello in Portuguese) Wow what an incredible week we are having so far. I cannot tell you how proud I am of our team! Here is a quick picture of what Sunday and Monday looked liked for us.
We got up early Sunday morning to prepare for church. Pete and […]
Hello everyone! We have arrived safely here in Brazil! We arrived here this morning around 7:45 local time (5:45 Central time). Our travel went great! Once we arrived here we went through security etc with no problems and hit the ground running. Today was a very tiring day with […]
I am leaving in an hour for the airport for Brazil with a very heavy heart. Rachel Olerud one of our sixth grade students at church was diagnosed with cancer a while back. Things seemed to be looking up. Last night they found her entire chest cavity was filled with tumors and that the situation […]
I am so not a planner. I have never been a planner. I am sitting here at 11 pm the night before I leave for Brazil finishing up laundry and packing. I am very excited about this trip. I haven’t really found myself stressed with this trip because things in the office have been busy. […]
What comes to mind when you think of middle school students? Maybe you picture lazy guys goofing off or sitting around playing video games and self-absorbed girls hanging out at the mall talking on their cell phones. Well, forget your ideas about idle teens and their misspent youth. Instead, imagine dozens of eager middle school […]