Some clarifications

I want to take this chance to better share with you all why the ‘preaching’ of Glenn Beck is so disturbing to me. If a Muslim were to stand up and say, “America needs to repent and turn to Allah.  America needs to look East, to Mecca”, we would all understand clearly what he was [...]

A Dark Day

I struggled with whether or not to write this, and it’s not my wish to offend any of you. I am deeply troubled over the events in Washington DC today.  Glenn Beck, a Mormon, is standing up trying to ‘rally America back to God’.  Many Evangelicals have been fooled by this man not realizing that [...]

Team La Plata Goals

We’ve had these done since March, but kept forgetting to post them.  These are our team goals for the year: Continuation and Progress of the plan put in place March 2009 Long Term Goal for Ministry in Argentina #1: For our team to gain experience in church planting, the Spanish language, and Argentine culture so [...]

A Growing Family

As most of you know, 6 months ago our second daughter (Greta) was born.  When you have your second kid, one of the questions that everybody seems to ask is “Is your other kid jealous?”  In fact, even before Greta was born I remember being asked if I thought Emerson (daughter #1) would end up [...]

Elijah at School

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 [...]

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 [...]