A Day in the Life of the DeSenna Family in Brazil “Okay, it should be all right now,” Aluisio assured me as I was preparing to drive our truck to the teacher training I was conducting at our kindergarten school in town. The truck had just been fixed after enduring several months of problems, and now another problem had …
A Salaam Aleikum! Senegal, West Africa Greetings from Senegal, West Africa. I have always had a strong desire to experience how people in other places lived. I came to Senegal for the first time in 1991 as a tourist. Little did I know then that 12 years later I would return to Senegal with three of my children to …
Help for Ecuador! Today you could help provide a basic necessity for a poor family in Ecuador. In the province we live in a very large percentage of the houses are made of bamboo or wood planks, and have no plumbing which means: no running water or toilets inside. They have to carry water in buckets from the nearest water …
For many years one of my favorite passages of Scripture has been the grand passage of Paul’s single-minded goal, “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling …
Working for Families in Czech Republic My good friend Vojta and his family have a wonderful home in the countryside of Moravia in Czech Republic. When I say wonderful, it is not at all because there is something luxurious about it—on the contrary. The way we live here is in many ways as they did decades ago—with an outdoor toilet …
Out of Darkness into the Light in Brazil I was suddenly awakened out of a deep sleep when something cold and clammy landed on my face. Surprising myself with an automatic overhead sliding slap to the face, I felt the unidentified creature jump off and found myself unable to sleep, wondering what it might have been. I wished I could …
We are very thankful to the Lord for His blessings and goodness to us each and every day. How true are the words of Jeremiah included among his lamentations for the destruction of Jerusalem, “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” (Lamentations …
It seems impossible to be writing it-2010. It seems as if just a short time ago, we were writing another number-2000. Now ten years have passed, and we are still here. Why are we still here? It most certainly is not because the Lord does not want to bring us home, nor is it because the world is not set …
