Mission: Urban

With the news that my book, Blue Blood, is coming out next week, I want to take this opportunity to answer a few questions that some people might have about the project:
What is it and how did it happen?
Blue Blood is a history of the Indianapolis Colts.  Some of you [...]

Summer vacation is officially over.  School starts tomorrow.  Malachi will be going into 1st grade, Elijah and Ellie will be in Kindergarten and Emerson will be in pre-school.  They are all going to the same school and the three younger one’s school day will be from 1pm to 5:30pm each day, Malachi’s goes to 6pm.  [...]

This week Brian and I went to round up some kids for our weekly English class.  We went down to the Villa, but several of the boys were missing.  Just few steps away from where we usually meet there is a small river/creek that runs through the neighborhood.
The water is filthy.  The world has polluted [...]

Here’s the newest member of the team. She was born Friday afternoon, weighing 8 lbs. 11 oz.

I’ve been reading the book”Let the Nations Be Glad” by John Piper. I read this today and it was the perfect challenge and encouragement.
Pages 100-101: “It is true that we should bear testimony to the supremacy of God’s goodness by receiving his good gifts with thanksgiving(1 Tim. 4:3).  But for many Christians this has become [...]

This last Saturday Pablo, a friend of ours here in La Plata, invited us to go with his family to the River on Sunday.  Of course, we accepted the invitation.  We left at 7:30 in the morning and got back at 8:30 at night.  We went to a town called “Punta Lara” a small ‘river [...]

We were getting ready to start a ‘movie night’ in the villa, but there were a lot of logistical details that had to come together just right in order to pull it off.
The night of the event, they all went haywire all at once.
We had forgotten the screws for the movie screen.  I went [...]

“Wow!!!” That’s a rather nice thing to hear as someone comes into your house for the first time, right?  Jil and I have always made something of a conscience effort to try and make our house warm and inviting to our guests. We love having people over, and want everyone to feel as [...]

Every Saturday(well, except when it rains and the dirt streets are completely muddy) we’ve been visiting the villa on Saturday mornings to share a story about Jesus, some songs and some snacks.  The kids LOVE the clowns(Brian and Nate) and love that we come to hang out and spend time with them.  Rich, Brian, Nate, [...]