Family
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Reporting MK abuse
I met with the IHART team yesterday to give a report/interview with them. IHART is an independent team investigating past abuse at New Tribes Mission boarding schools. They’re focusing on one school at a time, and currently they are looking into Tambo’s past – the school in Bolivia I attended. I have to say, the…
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Missionary kids speaking out about abuse
CBN is the latest to report on the growing voices of missionary kids speaking out about the abuse that happened on the mission field to them by missionaries over the the last half a century. You can read their article here. A great blog/website for getting more information or finding ways to report mk abuse…
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My Kindle lasted 48 hours
I got a Kindle for Christmas (technically, I got gift cards for Christmas that I then used on a Kindle). This was, of course, very exciting for several reasons. One, I’m a nerd. Two, I like to read. And three, I’ve been wanting to get one for a while now for ministry related books –…
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Christmas highlights
http://www.facebook.com/v/591708370205 This is the younger children at our church singing on the morning of December 18th. Zach is in the front row on the right, Noah in the back row a few kids from the right. I left out the part where one of them was picking their nose. In front of the whole church.…
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The Great Christmas Giveaway
Micah and Caleb were in our church’s annual children’s Christmas musical, the feature of our Christmas eve family service. In a glorious display of nerdery, I filmed it last night on my Flip camera, uploaded it to Vimeo, and Merry Christmas, there it is online in time for Christmas day! Micah is in the back…
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Life Tattoos
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=19079446&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00adef&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 The other weekend, when Heather and I were at the National Youth Worker Conference in Atlanta, there was a rapper who opened some of the main sessions named Propaganda. He really stood out to Heather and I, for a variety of reasons. We loved his style, his message, his presence – hopefully one of…
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Noah’s new challenge
I’ve blogged in the past about our son Noah’s challenges. He has to have surgery every few years on his right eyelid because of a condition called Ptosis, for a while he had heart arrhythmia that required a lot of monitoring, and for the last few years he has been battling Scleroderma, a condition that affects his…
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Not what we hoped
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about our son, Noah, our five year old son. He’s had a few extra challenges that our other kids don’t have; Ptosis, Scleroderma, and for a while a heart arrhythmia. We had actually thought we were having a pretty good year. Over the summer of 2010 he had surgery…
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Are you kidding me?
So, Zach is potty trained. Which is awesome – the $50-$80 a month spent on diapers for the last decade is now going towards feeding our four sons ever increasing appetites. But back to my original point, the potty trained Zach. So yesterday, I passed by the bathroom to see Noah and Zach having some…
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Pebbles
This is Pebbles, our baby Bearded Dragon. Technically, he belongs to Heather, but everyone is fascinated with him. We’ve had him for about a month now, which has been an experience. Exotic pets are more delicate than I anticipated! He did great the first couple weeks we had him, which was fun. The boys loved…