Vas and Joni's Archive

Vas and Joni's Archive

Vas and Joni are members of The Family International and are fulltime missionaries in Mexico. Vas helps to organize outreach, writes, records and produces music, plays in a band, performs and does shows, counsels young people and engages in evangelism. Joni teaches her four children, evangelises, performs and does shows, sings and records and assists The Family childcare board. More about Vas and Joni

Christmas disco

January 17th, 2007 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Joni: Ok, yes, so I was going to tell you about why my room looks like a disco at night. Well, one day I come in the room and Chad is…well I forget exactly what he was doing (yes, you lose brain cells when you’re pregnant) but I remember thinking it looked a bit like [...]

Three Kings Day

January 14th, 2007 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Vas: Well here in Mexico it’s kinda still Christmas because January 6th is Kings Day and that’s the time they give presents. Well, they actually give presents on Christmas and Kings Day. What I have usually seen is that on Christmas the presents are given to your family and friends and on Kings Day a [...]

Starting off

January 11th, 2007 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Vas: Well hey you all. We are still here in Guadalajara and starting to play about five concerts a week. So we are officially starting out, and of course the stress of keeping on top of making sure our material is good and pulling off a good performance for the audience is weighing heavy on [...]

Christmas Questions (part 2)

December 31st, 2006 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Vas: Here’s a funny story about a Christmas from way back. This happened when a team of us young people were on a faith trip. I explained in a previous post what a faith trip is. Actually Joni was there too, this was way before we were married but we were there on the same [...]

Christmas Questions (#1)

December 25th, 2006 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Vas: Well Christmas to me is a time to do what I should hopefully be doing all year round, which is to follow in the footsteps of the One who lived for others, always thinking of those in need whether the need is physical, spiritual or emotional. I know this is something that should not [...]

Questions about Christmas (#2)

December 22nd, 2006 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Joni: What does Christmas mean to you? Christmas means fun, enjoyment, laughter, hugs, a time when the feelings of love you have for those around you come out in their fullness. There’ssomething magical about Christmas and I love it! To me also Christmas is so much for children (you should see our room right now, [...]

Christmas questions #1

December 16th, 2006 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Tell us a special Christmas story—a Christmas miracle or something fun that happened when you were young? Joni: This is one Christmas miracle that happened to us that I’ll never forget. It was Christmas Eve, 2000. Rowen was two years old and Chad had just turned one in October. We were out Christmas caroling and [...]

Baby announcement

December 5th, 2006 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Joni: Another little angel is coming here to stay I love all my angels and I’ll love this one the same More to enjoy and yet more to do I have my other babies but each one is so new A beautiful treasure is coming my way Just one request dear Lord if I may [...]

Parent time

December 3rd, 2006 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Vas: We have parent time every night after dinner and usually I try to do something really fun with the kids after not seeing them for most of the day. They look forward to this time and I have to admit it’s not my strong point as at the end of the day it’s sometimes [...]

EuRock demo video

November 27th, 2006 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Here is some footage of one of the concerts we did which we made into a little demo. We had a lot of fun at eurock and all those in Europe were so cool…we love you all. Sorry this footage comes so long after the event but I guess I’ll let the video speak for [...]