This is Ashley, Roberto and their baby Manu.
We spent New Years with many wonderful friends from CBC Ecuador. It is always great to see and spend time with them.
Happy New Year! Can you believe it's 2008?
Thursday, January 3, 2008
New Years
After Christmas we had the chance to go to Christmas Camp at Covenant Point in the UP of Michigan. It was so nice to be able to just relax. We were only able to stay a couple days and then it was off to Minnesota for Ashley and Roberto's wedding. It was so beautiful and so fun!
This is Ashley, Roberto and their baby Manu.
We spent New Years with many wonderful friends from CBC Ecuador. It is always great to see and spend time with them.
Happy New Year! Can you believe it's 2008?
This is Ashley, Roberto and their baby Manu.
We spent New Years with many wonderful friends from CBC Ecuador. It is always great to see and spend time with them.
Happy New Year! Can you believe it's 2008?
Christmas
We had a wonderful Christmas and New Years with family and friends. We first celebrated Christmas with the Johnson's in Washington. We were able to spend two weeks out there which was awesome. It was great to see all our friends and family there and be able to soak them all up for the last time before Bolivia. We love you guys and it was sad to say good-bye for a while.
Christmas with the Wallgrens and Ericksons was also wonderful. We loved every minute of it and it was a beautiful celebration as always! We are so blessed to have such a loving, fun and amazing family. Here are a couple of pictures:
Christmas with the Wallgrens and Ericksons was also wonderful. We loved every minute of it and it was a beautiful celebration as always! We are so blessed to have such a loving, fun and amazing family. Here are a couple of pictures:
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Some Pictures...
Here are some pictures of the children at two of the orphanages where we will be working. There are also some pictures of kids at the drop-in center for children in Cochabamba, Bolivia where we will be spending some of our time. Hope they bring a smile to your face!
Thursday, October 4, 2007
So what are you doing in Bolivia???
This is a question we hear a lot these days.
We have an answer yet we don't at the same time. We are going to be living in the third largest city in Bolivia. It is also the city with the most indigenous population in Bolivia. This makes for an interesting blend of European descent and native Bolivian descent people which definitely influences the culture and language. So we will be learning Spanish with some Quechua(indigenous language)along the way.
Bolivia is the poorest country in South America and because of this many kids are left behind. Children and adolescents make up almost half of the population and so 2.5 million children live in poverty.
We will be working on a team that builds, supports, staffs and works at orphanages. We will help with administration, supporting the staff that are building the orphanages, supporting the house parents (and stepping in when they need a break), leading groups that come down to help the ministry and working on small businesses that will sustain the orphanages. Each orphanage will have around ten children and will be head by a Christian Bolivian couple that will connect the orphanage to the local church. Each orphanage is meant to be like a home where the kids can really feel like they belong. The kids come from many different circumstances but all from difficult situations.
A missionary from Cochabamba, Bolivia that we just met heard we were working at an orphanage there and responded, "Well then don't bring your heart!". I know that it will be hard to hear the stories that these children carry with them but I cannot wait to just hug them and show them that they still have a Father that loves them immensely.
We have an answer yet we don't at the same time. We are going to be living in the third largest city in Bolivia. It is also the city with the most indigenous population in Bolivia. This makes for an interesting blend of European descent and native Bolivian descent people which definitely influences the culture and language. So we will be learning Spanish with some Quechua(indigenous language)along the way.
Bolivia is the poorest country in South America and because of this many kids are left behind. Children and adolescents make up almost half of the population and so 2.5 million children live in poverty.
We will be working on a team that builds, supports, staffs and works at orphanages. We will help with administration, supporting the staff that are building the orphanages, supporting the house parents (and stepping in when they need a break), leading groups that come down to help the ministry and working on small businesses that will sustain the orphanages. Each orphanage will have around ten children and will be head by a Christian Bolivian couple that will connect the orphanage to the local church. Each orphanage is meant to be like a home where the kids can really feel like they belong. The kids come from many different circumstances but all from difficult situations.
A missionary from Cochabamba, Bolivia that we just met heard we were working at an orphanage there and responded, "Well then don't bring your heart!". I know that it will be hard to hear the stories that these children carry with them but I cannot wait to just hug them and show them that they still have a Father that loves them immensely.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
You can check out more about International Teams at
www.iteams.org
It's worth checking out. They're pretty cool.
www.iteams.org
It's worth checking out. They're pretty cool.
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