2010
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Giving Grief A Chance
I recently finished reading the book, “Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds” by David C. Pollack and Ruth E. Van Reken. Our three boys are officially Third Culture Kids, TCKs. “TCKs are raised in a neither/nor world. It is neither fully the world of their parents’ culture nor fully the world [...]
Winter Camp July 2010
This winter we took four boys to camp (for ages 12-17) July 29-Aug 1st. Grace Brethren churches from the Buenos Aires area organize this yearly winter camp and we were invited to participate. We had invited six youth from the bario to go, only four were able to go. This being our first camp experience [...]
Nate and Deb talk about La Plata
We’ve had a great time with our church family here at Community of Hope this week. If you want to hear what we shared with the body, just click here.
About the Book
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 may be aware [...]
Where Did Summer Go?
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. [...]
Fishing in a Dirty River
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 [...]
Glad Suffering Shines Brighter Than Gratitude
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 [...]
Day at the River
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 [...]
Failing Well
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 [...]
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