Mission: Urban

Blog Posts from The Gorniks

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.  [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Here are a few pictures from our vacaction in November.  Some pics include the Elledges, we were fortunate to share a week with them at the beach.

Here is a video clip of a speech that I think is worth showing:

We got back from vacation last night.  It was the longest vacation we’d ever been on, 2 whole consecutive weeks.  After this I don’t think we’ll ever be able to do a vacation for less time.  When we took 1 week vacations back in the States I never real rested: Day 1 would be the [...]

We’ve been praying for our upstairs neighbors for many months and praying for opportunities to talk with them(we just finished our winter and didn’t see them much at all).  It’s nice and warm today and the boys were playing outside.  The last two weeks the little four year old girl upstairs will come out on [...]

I never realized how impatient I was firstly, until I had kids…..and secondly, until I moved to another country.  God has used this journey to grow me in ways I didn’t know I needed to be grown.  He’s teaching me patience in waiting for things like hot water, heat, running water, electricity, our internet to [...]

Our home church wil be sending a 7 member prayer team down here from Sept.  29-Oct. 7.  We are sooo excited to have them here.  This will be a special team, the vast majority of all that they will be doing is praying.  They will be the first team to visit us and will have [...]