“And everyone that has forsaken houses or brethren (friends) or sisters of fathers, or mother or wife or children or lands for My name’s sake shall receive an hundred fold and shall inherit everlasting life.” Mat. 9:29 In my life growing up in The Family, I moved around quite a bit–especially when I was young. [...]
Joni writes: Frances is growing up so fast! I’d just like y’all to know that she’s a real screamer. Man, she can scream! I guess she’s trying to express herself or something (or maybe she’ll sing like Daddy–hee hee.) When I have her on my back in the backpack, the screaming is right in my [...]
I’m going to be in meetings for the next four days planning a program called the AIP! The AIP stands for “Activated Incentive Program” and it’s a project that we are going to undertake for all the young volunteers in India. Last year we did something similar, in fact it was done all over the [...]
Joni writes: The other day we took the kids out witnessing to pass out tracts in the neighborhood. Two of us adults had the eight kids, and we were quite a spectacle. But the kids did so well. They’re so bold and cute and just go right up to the people, give them a tract [...]
Vas writes: Well it took just about a month total to get the van. About two weeks to find it, two more weeks for the paper work to be finalized and also raise some funds to get back down to my wife and kids that I missed incredibly! I am finally back and happy to [...]
Three new volunteers are joining our team here in Bangalore, and not only our team, but they are joining The Family International as full time volunteers! It’s amazing to see some “fruits of our labors!” Of course there is always “fruit” in some way or another because every project we do is done with the [...]
Joni writes: Pray for us! Things have been busy. We’re about to take off and “hit the road” with our five darlings . I am about to start packing, oh yes packing (such a small word for such a large undertaking.) We’ll be staying with friends in other parts until we know exactly where we’ll [...]
Nyx has been busy, as she’ll demonstrate for herself when she describes what it’s like keeping a home running and myriad and sundry siblings happy from day to day. Look for an beautiful account of what her sister Tessie experienced when visiting the children’s cancer ward at a local hospital recently. Really, all our bloggers [...]
In the year-odd that Live the Creed has been operational, we the admins have been little seen, little heard. We’d like to change this. While this is a spare time project for Mike and I, we’ve been looking for more and better ways to offer information and insight into The Family International, and one way [...]