” 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 “
Field Meetings
Earlier this month, we had our annual WorldVenture field meetings, which consisted of a day of prayer, a day of business, a day of team building and a day of play. Our immediate team recently tripled in size when our family of five and the Casurella family of four,...
POTW
Madagascar, probably like most other developing counties, is home to the “knock off” as seen here in this classic case... is this pair of shoes made by Reebok... or Nike... apparently the manufacturer couldn’t decide either.
“For how long shall we let our women continue to die?”
Last weekend our family traveled to Antananarivo, the capital city, so that I could attend a conference about “Ideas For Women’s Cancer Control in Africa”. This conference, organized by TEDx, brought in specialists from several countries, including Italy, France,...
HOUSE!
OK, so this is NOT our house... in fact, it’s NOTHING like our house... this house is in the remote village of Mahabana that we’ve been going to for the last 12 years... HOWEVER.. we DID GET THE HOUSE we were hoping and praying for! If you don’t get our newsletters,...
Field Trip to the School for the Visually Impaired
Yesterday our Malagasy class took a field trip to a school for visually impaired children. The purpose of such field trips is to not only to be able to listen and speak in Malagasy but also to raise our cultural awareness. I love these field trips and find them...
OUCH!
Last week I finally had a chance to pull out my mother-in-law’s old Singer sewing machine. Sewing was a wonderful hobby that Bonnie and I enjoyed doing when we lived together 9 years ago. She passed away in January 2010 and I consider this sewing machine to be a bit...





