Gornik
Blog Posts from The Gorniks
Preparing for Home
What will it be like to be back in the States…the feel of a smooth ride on the road, huge expansive highways, fast food that you can eat in your car, good ketchup, PICKLES!!!! AND, the ability to communicate yourself without any difficulty! We are in the process of planning our time back home and preparing [...]
Visitors!
Last weekend Meche and Tati, friends of ours and leaders in the Wilde GBC in Buenos Aires, brought a group of young adults out to La Plata for the day. We had a great time hanging out and talking, and they led the Hora Feliz in the villa. (Do I still need to define those [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Amazing Things are Happening
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, [...]
Pictures from the Gornik vacation
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.
Where is God, who is He with?
Here is a video clip of a speech that I think is worth showing:

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