Earlier this month, a tragedy struck our community in Managua, when a missionary family lost their nineteen-year-old daughter in a freak accident. She was laying in a hammock strung between two palm trees when one of the trees broke. She fell out of the hammock and hit her head on a concrete block nearby. She […]
Archives for June 2014
What’s next for us in Nica?
Somehow I’ve known this day would come, even though I really hoped it wouldn’t. When we first felt God asking us to spend more than a week in Nicaragua, we wondered how we would make it happen financially. “We absolutely can not ask people to give us money,” was my answer. My husband didn’t want […]
Homemade-fake Maple Syrup
I’m running a guesthouse (for adopting families) and I like to cook. This translates into pancakes and bacon a lot of mornings, which means I bring out the big guns: my jar of homemade syrup. It doesn’t take too many bites of syrup-laden pancake before someone finally asks, “so you really make your own maple […]
Site goals
My husband loves to say that you have to be a little bit crazy to sell your stuff and move to another country, and if you’re doing it because God told you to, then you’re definitely a bit off your rocker. We don’t mind being placed in that category. And we absolutely love the other […]
The Great Unanswerable
The following was originally posted in 2013, two weeks before a young friend died of cancer. Heaven gained another young woman this past weekend, when a missionary family here in Nicaragua lost their daughter in a freak accident. God used the situation to remind me of His challenge last fall and that it is still […]