Life in The Family International

Been practicing for the Conectate Retreat. Here’s a video clip of our band practice.

The drive home was fairly relaxing, I slept in the back seat most of the time while mom and dad took turns driving. Stop for lunch at a restaurant with a funny sign! (“Please don’t do drugs”). Well this particular town where we stopped has a big Ashram, and drugs are quite related to worship [...]

Vas writes: Been doing a lot of recording lately to try and make a special CD for the retreat we are preparing for. We hold a retreat every year for the different circles of Family membership with the purpose of teaching more about how to live a productive, happy life for Jesus.
We are also practicing [...]

Can you imagine having mutton, chicken and fish for breakfast at 7:00 in the morning? I did, and it’s definitely not the usual.
Took about a four hour drive to a small village. Stopped at a small orphanage/shelter home for women. The same people are also running a school for about 600 children so we went [...]

Joni writes: We’ve been outgrowing our home and have been “house-hunting” for a while now. The Lord showed us that He has a new house for us already prepared and He wants us to focus as much prayer power on finding it as possible. We’ve been trying to do that—I know I have!
Well, today we [...]

Drove down to Pondicherry (it’s another state/province in India and formerly a French territory) from Chennai, after breakfast. The road was really good and we could actually drive comfortably at a 100 km per hour (a rarity on Indian roads). The scenery was also worth seeing, collectively making it a very pleasant drive.
We arrived [...]

We planned to leave at 4:00 am, but somehow that didn’t materialize and we left more around six-thirty. The first two hundred Kilom’s were pretty uneventful, I think I slept through most of it in the back seat. But soon enuf the car started acting up and we had to stop and a couple places [...]

ARGHHHHHH!!!!! Had another power surge today! Blew out my surge protector—thank God not the whole computer and monitor like last time. Well this is just one of the every day things to be expected here in Uganda…
I’m really taking a risk writing this blog while plugged straight into the wall without a surge protector or [...]

Joni writes: Well, Frances is officially two weeks old today and we are loving her! Heh, I had many, mighty plans of all that I was going to accomplish while resting and taking it easy after my daughters’ birth—but life seems to be screaming at me “fat chance!” It’s amazing how quickly the end of [...]

Woke up earlier than I wanted to on a Sunday morning, but a girls gotta work! I wish by now I could post a picture of my nose pierce but mournfully it once again didn’t work out (I pierced it on Saturday afternoon and by Sunday morning it mysteriously fell out…WHY?
Spent most of Sunday morning [...]