Sara and Vincent's Archive

Sara and Vincent's Archive

Vincent and Sara are second-generation members of the Family International and are fulltime volunteers in India. Vincent conducts Outreach activities, designs for Family brochures, and helps in the managerial aspects of Family life. Sara runs a Baby School for Family babies and toddlers, organizes open forums and activities for teenagers, does secretarial and organizational work, and conducts motivational classes for students. More about Sara and Vincent

Happy Family Birthday!

February 27th, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

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 [...]

New team members

February 26th, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

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 [...]

Concerts and all that jazz

February 21st, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

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 [...]

The 90/10 principle

February 15th, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

Hey everyone! Here’s an article I thought was pretty good! Enjoy! Discover the 90/10 Principle—by Stephen Covey It will change your life (at least the way you react to situations). What is this principle? 10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react. What [...]

Retreat

February 5th, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

Each person in our Family Home was able to take a two-day retreat. This was for a few reasons 1) We were pretty tuckered out after the nonstop action of the Christmas season 2) To pray about direction for the New Year 3) and to sleep for long periods of time. I had a great [...]

Evaluations

January 24th, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

We tried something a bit new this year—we made personal evaluations for each person in our Family home. Since the New Year is a wonderful time to make goals, resolutions (that you intend to keep), and especially goals in areas that we all want to do better in like our personal relations with others, we [...]

Trip tales

January 18th, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

Our trip tales have not ended with the elephants….heh. You know, having another kid on the way I always wonder what will it be like with two kids. Well, having my sister Amanda on the trip with us gave me a little bit of a picture. It’s no piece of cake, but can be lotsa [...]

New Year’s at Dubare Elephant camp

January 15th, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

Our new years’ was closely followed by a trip to another part of Karnataka, called Coorg. What a brilliant place that was – greenery everywhere and fresh cold air. When you live in a big cosmopolitan city in India, you don’t get to see much of nature and much less breathe fresh clean air……..so you [...]

Christmas Highlights

January 13th, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

Belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! And to all my friends, I love you guys and miss you especially much during this time. Well, since I missed out all the Christmas questions I just thought I would jot down some highlights of our Christmas adventures and miracles. This was truly an [...]

Eggs and more

December 10th, 2006 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

I forgot to tell you one more story about our Christmas event. Just before the program when I went into the bathroom to put my stage shirt on, I was surprised to find some gooey slimy stuff all over my shirt. Brilliant, just brilliant! What could it be? On closer inspection I found the substance [...]