Baby, It's Cold Outside!
It’s wintertime in Paraguay. Maybe you thought, like me, that winter in the sub-tropics meant exchanging my shorts for capris and adding...
Life in the Campaña
Our family recently relocated from Asuncion (population 6 million) to Escobar (population 8,815) to learn Guarani – the heart language of...
Chubby
Of the many changes and challenges we anticipated in this new life, rodents were not high on the list. In retrospect, perhaps they should...
Old School Lumber
Slowly but surely, the Lord reminds us that we cannot operate based on assumptions in Paraguay. That's a lesson learned bit by bit,...
To Market, To Market . . .
With the first steps of settling in to our new nation behind us (vehicle, housing, beginning of residency paperwork), our focus turns to...
The Road Less Traveled
Well, I may have gotten off to a late start in the blogging game, but here we go! My plan for this blog is to use it as a space to share...
Foreign to Familiar(ish)
"Chipa! Chipa! Chipa!" With that refrain blasting over the loudspeakers of a passing food truck at 7:00 a.m. last Sunday morning, we...
Bittersweet
We purchased our plane tickets this past week and arrive in Paraguay on July 8. Even though we have known for months of this impending...
On the Road
If the last several months of our life were a movie, it would surely be titled "On The Road." Now that we've confirmed our call to...
Our Journey
We have been so uplifted by the encouragement we’ve received as we chase after this crazy call from God to pursue Him in Paraguay! We...