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I know Liz and I have been back from out trip now for over 4 months…  but I’d still love to use this blog to continue to share updates with you guys.  So….I thought a good thing might be to post some exciting things going on with the organizations and people we met during our [...]

Many thanks to all of you who came out to our photo exhibit this past Saturday! I was so excited to see so many people come by, and to be able to share a little more about our trip with all of you. I was so excited to see people participating in the silent auction [...]

Just wanted to give a quick update with more info about our photo exhibit tomorrow. 1) You definitely don’t have to stay the whole three hours! (But you’re more than welcome to… ) Feel free to just stop by whenever you can for however long you can. Also, we’ll have some snacks/refreshments as well. [...]

Liz and I are very excited to announce that our church is hosting a photo exhibit for us next weekend! Details- Date: June 20, 2009 Location: Liveoak Bible Church, 7500 WOODROW AVE., AUSTIN TX Time: 11am-2pm The exhibit will feature photos from our time in the Sudan. And we will also have a slideshow of [...]

Beth and I sat in her kitchen where we’ve had many a deep conversation over tea, coffee or hot chocolate in vain attempts at solving the problems of our world or at least our individual lives.  That afternoon was no different except that a new Longhorn mug sat warmly between my hands and a picture [...]

So, the story goes something like this… Blanca met a guy in Italy years ago.  Years before that two guys met in North Carolina.  Somehow through facebook we all got connected which led to all of you helping the orphans we visited in Zimbabwe.  I love how God connects dots that aren’t even on the [...]

Update from PLC: Ahmed is smiling big! He gets to see his mom again on Wednesday…back home in Iraq! I so badly wish I could be there to see his smiling face and give him a BIG HUG!!!!  He will still need additional surgeries over the next few years in order to live a fully functional adult [...]

As I’ve spent time with friends over the last couple days, they have all asked how we are adjusting to life back in the plenty and comfort of America after all we’ve seen and experienced.  So far I have told everyone that this has actually been the easiest adjustment back for me ever.  The usual [...]

Blanca and I are speaking at our church in Austin this Sunday.  In preparation for what we will share about Sudan, I decided to look up information on the LRA led Christmas massacres we heard about while we were in Yei.  Here’s some of what I found in a report compiled by Human Rights Watch.  [...]

from yesterday: Ahmad is out of surgery!  O2 levels already up 25%.  His future is hopefully less blue and more healthy pink.  His dad is crying tears of joy! and 8 hours ago: is awake in ICU and doing well.  He is pink pink pink (yea oxygen!) and alert.  Such a wonderful change is this little guy. Thanks again [...]

Incredible…  we got an update from PLC that Ahmad will have his first surgery in just two days!  I was touched by some of the Twitter updates that have been posted by PLC… From a couple of weeks ago: “ahmad’s dad committed today to do anything to save his son’s life.  He is in the [...]

We’re in New Zealand!!  Crazy!!  The above photo is of me and my awesome friend, Hannah! Ever since we left back in December, I’ve always looked at this New Zealand portion of our trip as “hanging out with Hannah and Richard time.”  So even though I knew we’d be in this beautiful country, I was [...]

I’m sitting on the Venable’s wrap around porch in New Zealand right now, not far from the ocean, trying to process all we’ve seen and heard over the last six weeks and asking the Lord how He wants my life to be different as a result.  Please do pray with us that we would hear [...]

As we have moved from one country to the next previously unknown city, there’s inevitably the clash with the culture, the visa scam or overpriced taxi ride, and the ache as we hold one more abandoned baby or watch one more elderly woman carry her heavy load.  But then there’s the beauty… The beauty of [...]

We arrived at the Handicap Center in Vietnam, with Jill and Tabitha, and I wasn’t sure what to expect…  We followed the girls to one of the rooms, and before I had a chance to say or do anything, a little boy quickly came over to me since I was in front, grabbed my arm, and [...]

As I held newborn Sang this afternoon, little tomato-red crying Emily Kobes popped into my head. Emily rarely freed herself of the airtight Kobes swaddle, but Sang had escaped hers and was crying in the last steel crib on the first row.  The women working there were folding cloth diapers and onesies nearby seemingly immune [...]

Blanca and I decided to take today off and I have spent much of the afternoon catching up on my favorite blogs, emailing, and praying, reading and journaling.   A recurring theme for me from the Lord on this trip (and in life!) has been to just be faithful in the little things rather than getting [...]

I thought of our friend, Rudy, as we walked passed the houses with a hammock or two hanging beneath them.  Is there any better way to spend an afternoon than relaxing in a hammock?  Just ask this little guy: On to more CHO photos… CHO offers training in sewing and bike repair, then gives small loans [...]

Blanca checked the World blog today and found the following comment that made both of us smile.  Kristin Hagen sent us an email a week ago that helped prepare us to rejoice instead of doubt — thanks Kristin! Women should not be traveling alone to foreign countries. I hate the fact that churches promote women missionaries [...]

Our time with CHO was so short!  And since it fell on a weekend, that made it a little more difficult to plan a lot for us to see with them…  But the little time we spent with Ratana and Chomno was enough to leave me amazed at all they are doing…  It is truly incredible..  [...]