New Blog

In Spanish!!!

We're hoping and planing and praying to have Venezuelans on our team. Americans as missionaries are cool, but honestly we're a little weak. It takes us a year or years to adjust to a mission field, learn the language and build up a strong enough immune system to pass less than 50% of our time on the toilet...assuming there is a toilet. (We have toilets here, thankfully!) But someone from their own country is already adjusted, and more so than any foreigner could ever hope to be. Don't get me wrong, cross cultural missions are super necessary, biblical, and needed. Sometimes you need an outside view point and way of thinking. The American church would probably benefit from African or Indian missionaries.

Still, in house missionaries will outlast foreigners and we definitely want Venezuelans/latins on our team. We're planing a few events with some of our Venezuelan friends and we're trying to push it as much as possible. Advertise, advertise and advertise. So, I had the pleasure of putting together a new blog, in Spanish!!!

We're hoping and planing and praying... wait, I think I've done this already. In any case, check it out. It's called Luz en el Barrio. That means Light in the Barrio. (Barrio means neighborhood, but better translated as the hood.) Hopefully our whole team will be adding to this blog and improving our spanish vocab as we try our hands at writing.

In other news, I had the privilege to spend a day or two with a young man from Fresno. I was super encouraged by his journey and person. A real good guy. He is in my prayers as he goes back home and makes some big decisions. He's in the pic below, but just as a fun exercise, there are both Americans and Venezuelans in the photo below. Can you tell who is from where?

I'll post the answer in a few days, but just know Venezuela is (wonderfully) probably one of the most racially diverse countries I've ever seen aside from the states. But that's another post for later.

Press on for Joy!