When I came back home to the Philippines last November, my family was just coming out of a crisis, and coming back to serving the Lord fulltime. After years of being apart, it was something new for me to learn to work with mom and dad again, and to “rebuild” our Home. Five months later, [...]
The school for slum children that we started in September 2004 has grown immensely. It is called Starting Point, because I guess that’s exactly what it is–an opportunity for these kids to get a good start in life. These kids (20 of them) come from a slum near a place called Ulsoor here in Bangalore. [...]
Joni writes: The 21st was Tiffany’s Birthday! She turned 4. We’re waiting till Vas comes home from his trip to have a big birthday celebration with the presents and everything, but we did some fun Birthday things together today. I took her to what is the equivalent of a dollar store here and my kids [...]
Haven’t blogged much lately as basically things at home have been pretty busy. The weather is hotter, the days are longer, and the kids are needing more challenges to keep them busy in the summer. I’ve been feeling that I should not default so much to putting on the TV and the Disney channel too [...]
Vacation was different this year in that 6 other Family homes were also there at the same time with us! Whatta party! It was amazing that it worked out this way, because some of these homes live on their own and don’t get to see other Family members too often. My mum and siblings were [...]
Joni writes: I was reading this today—I love it! (From Jesus) “There is a way of escape—I’m your joy. When the simplicity of My love starts to fade away, you need to fight to focus on the beauties of your life and the blessings of My Spirit. You can’t let the work drain your life [...]
The whole gang has returned from an 8 day trip to Goa… a beautiful former Portuguese colony (now its own state) on the West Indian coast. It’s always such a special blessing from the Lord when we are able to get away for awhile and before I get into describing it I just want to [...]
Vas writes: As you heard, we are moving, so the first step was to buy a van. I was scared to death of buying a van. I have never done it before, and my biggest worry was that the whole family loads into the one I buy and it breaks down. Thank the Lord I [...]
I know there are angels among us, and they walk the earth in the forms of ordinary people. Just hours after I put out word about Nino, friends and strangers began doing what they could to spread the word–and help to make his last wish come true. Nino’s plea was aired on TV. People called [...]
Joni writes: Here’s some fairly big news I guess: Vas and I and kiddos will be moving again soon and opening a new home here in Mexico with some dear friends of ours. This took a lot of prayer, thought and making sure it was the Lord’s plan. We’ll see what He has up His [...]
