” Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it. –Erwin Lutzer “
New Wheels
Our new wheels in Olongapo, Philippines
Philippines
Last week we arrived in Olongapo, Philippines where we’ll call home for the next 6+ weeks. We were blessed beyond measure as our teammates here had already found and furnished a small house for us... no easy feat in a developing country! As though this isn’t gift...
To Miss and Not To Miss….
It’s been a week since we left the great Red Island of Madagascar. There are several aspects of our life that we already miss... and there are some aspects for which we’re happy to have a break from. Here’s our top few.... TO MISS... 1. Friends... We’ll all miss our...
12 Years Of Transformation
Flashback to October 9, 1999-- I stepped off a Malagasy sailboat and into life within the village of Mahabana. A village barely touched by the outside world and so entrapped by the vices of poverty on every level. A village where 30% of the population controlled the...
Choosing Poverty
These two words don’t seem to make a lot of sense when put together... why would someone choose poverty? Why when someone has lived their entire life in poverty, married into poverty, birthed their babies into poverty and currently are raising their kids in poverty,...
Third Culture Kids
My husband is a Third Culture Kid (TCK).... I am not... I’m a Santa Barbara kid! Yet we are raising TCK’s. And what exactly is a TCK? Well, I’m glad you asked... By definition the Third Culture Kid “is a person who has spent a significant part of their developmental...




