So, as I spelled out the title of this post, I was 100% positive that it was what our team needed to ask for. In so many ways, our team has been praised, complimented, and looked at as “top-notch”, and while it can feel really good and encouraging to hear these things from people [...]
One of us has celebrated 31 of these. Others of us have celebrated a few less. Put that in perspective for a moment…
Through these ‘new years’ we’ve seen:
A cold war
Economic highs and lows
A presidential assassination attempt
3 Middle Eastern wars
A dividing-wall come down
We’ve been shaped by a few social revolutions (fads if you will):
Tight-rolled [...]
When Tara and I were back in the States for Thanksgiving, we noticed a Christian radio station advertising itself as “safe for the whole family.” I thought it was interesting that of all the good things Christian music can provide to its listeners, this company decided to market safety. Could comfort, ease, and [...]
In the midst of learning about irregular verb tenses, increasing our Spanish vocabulary, growing together as a team, and living day-to-day life here in Costa Rica, it is sometimes easy to take for granted the fact that in the near future we will be in Lima, Peru answering God’s call to share the Gospel. [...]
So, we called up all of our friends, pulled out the best Halloween costumes we had with us, and partied on this past Friday in celebration of Halloween. First, I have to say (because there has been much discussion here in Costa Rica about this topic) that Halloween to our team is basically just [...]
We recently heard about a very humbling experience here in language school. One of those experiences that will be told for years as veteran missionaries share their language woes, and their “joys” of learning a new language, with those just entering ministry on a foreign field. In simpler terms, the brief story I’m [...]
As most of you know, our team is attending language school in Costa Rica before heading to Lima, Peru. We are really blessed to attend the Instituto de Lengua Española (Spanish Language Institute) in Costa Rica’s capital city, San Jose. Our team is doing amazingly well, and we are impressed with everyone’s gift [...]
Well I have been hounded about my lack of posting/blogging so I took the afternoon to learn how to post on blogs and I admit, it’s not as bad as I thought! Costa Rica has been a whirlwind! We’ve been here barely a week and it seems like we have all jumped right [...]
Well, the entire team has finally arrived to the beautiful country of Costa Rica, but not without some adventure. While the Davidsons, Yoakums, and Mark were supposed to fly to San José together, it ended up that Mark went first (at 11:30 am), with the two families following close behind (at 6 pm). It is [...]
The other night, Justin and I were having dinner here in Tennessee at a wonderful restaurant called Bell Buckle Cafe. We took our teammates there when they came to visit. Yes, we think that much of it! It is actually located in Bell Buckle, TN. Can’t get any better than that. [...]