Joni: We took the kids to the park the other day to pass out tracts and to pray with those that wanted to receive Jesus. They did so well at practicing their Spanish too and all of them have memorized a little prayer to pray with people and they say it with such boldness and [...]
Happy Family Birthday!! The Family International celebrates its birthday on the 18th of Feb every year, and the celebrations each year can be different but whatever the activity it’s a time to celebrate the wonderful time that we have spent together serving God and serving others! This year all the Family homes in Bangalore went [...]
We’ve just had a new couple join our team. So, I would like to welcome David and Dawn to our heavenly home, along with their two adorable kids, Jolie (6 months) and Jude ( 2 years). Jude and my daughter Kaila are especially happy together—I’ve been going on a parental push to have quality family [...]
If we can’t change the entire world, is alleviating the pain good enough? Sometimes it feels like our grain of sand is really only that: a grain of sand, but here’s a story from my mom, a hospital clown in Chile, in defense of the “band-aid†theory.She wrote it for her yahoo group Clowns To [...]
Just getting out of my pajamas now to get ready to meet up with the other Family Homes to join in on “The Feast”, our annual retreat. It’s something I am looking forward to, although I have to keep telling myself that taking nearly a week off and away from work IS A GOOD THING!!! [...]
Vas: Well Justin, a typical day for me in The Family is first getting our 5 children up, dressed and ready for the day, and then we all go to breakfast. After breakfast we have an hour of devotions and 15 minutes of prayer time and then go into the other activities of the day. [...]
Every year in February, the Family International celebrates the birthday of our founder, Moses David (David Brandt Berg). The event is usually organized as a few-day-long retreat, a time of spiritual rest and meditation and it’s called “The Feast” as it’s a time of more reading and spiritual infilling than usual. A time of “feasting [...]
A series of four benefit concerts have been taking up most of my brain space, my thoughts and my time. A brilliant experience though for all involved, and the concerts in our cities just happen to be on the 16th and 17th of this month. The Family is completely in charge to execute the whole [...]
This is just a silly story on how it really is worthwhile to face life with a positive attitude. A while back the electricity for our whole neighborhood went out. One of our couples decided to take a walk, being that their computer work was now halted. At the door they ran into our fuming [...]
Recently, a bit before the break of the New Year, I stayed the weekend in one of the Family homes nearby for my day off. When I woke up in the early morning, the children hadn’t stirred yet, and it was calm and quiet. The Lord told me to turn my gaze towards the sunrise [...]