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After the big announcement from a few weeks ago I feel like I’ve been remiss in sharing with you stories of our lives and the lives of our children here in Honduras. So with that in mind I’d like to tell you the story of Iris.
Iris is in Laura’s 4th grade class and lived down [...]

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For those of you who read spanish I hope you enjoyed the preview. For the rest of you I’ll do some translating. “Erika va a dar a luz” literally translated means “Erika is going to give to light.” What it really means is “Erika is going to give birth.”
Yup, we’re pregnant! Erika is about 9 [...]

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Back with more tales of life in Honduras, here’s an interesting one about bananas, international commerce, peasant farmers, a rich governor, disputed land, an election, ear nose and throat doctors, a boy named Arturo, machetes and big cement sewer pipes.
You all probably read in my last email about Arturo who was scheduled to have surgery [...]

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Friends-
I´m in town today because I had to drive a trip to bring a family of our children in to meet with their mother, who, as I sit here typing to you, is telling them that she is dying. This is my Lent.
For me Lent is about being wounded and finding strength in the promise [...]

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Friends-
The last two weeks have been amazing and packed with so much I want to share with you. Though the story doesn’t really have a beginning we’ll join the action in progress with the arrival of Erika’s family on January 8th. I took a bus 6 hours to San Pedro Sula to run some errands [...]

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Friends-
Feliz Navidad! It’s hard to believe that Christmas is almost upon us and I wanted to take this chance to write and give you a little update on Christmas here on the Caribbean.
Tonight we had the 5th night of our traditional posadas. Posadas are a Central American tradition that recalls the journey of Mary [...]

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Friends-
Greetings from our new home in Honduras! We have lots of new stories to share with you and the last few weeks have been full of excitement but, as always, first the highlights:

We?re safe and sound and fully moved into our new home. 
I became the first person from our group to get malaria and had [...]

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Greetings again from Guatemala. It’s been about six weeks since my last big update so I thought now would be a good time to fill people in before we leave for Honduras.
First the mini version:

7 and a half weeks of Spanish down and one day to go.
We now have 9 volunteers in our community. 
We leave [...]

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Greetings from Xela, Guatemala. We’ve been here just over a week now so I thought this would be a good time to update everyone, let you know we’re doing well and recount a few of our adventures thus far.
For those just interested in the highlights here they are:

We are safe, with no major bouts with [...]

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With great excitement, and a little nervousness, I’m writing to you about an exciting new opportunity for our family. After months of conversation, prayer and discernment we were offered and have accepted an opportunity to volunteer with the Farm of Child, an orphanage in Trujillo, Honduras. Erika, Michael and I will be moving to Central [...]

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