Well, we’re off to Acapulco for a week. It’s our transition from a fairly active summer to a busy fall season. It’ll be Gavin’s and Fiona’s last week of freedom and joy before they start their academic careers. It’s all downhill from here! But first, we’re sending out our prayer letter for August. It’s a […]

Well, it only took two+ years, but I finally finished NT Wright’s book, Jesus and the Victory of God. It’s really quite good, for what it is, an historian’s approach to Jesus in the tradition of the Quest for the Historical Jesus (or as Wright places himself, in the Third Quest). I’m not going to […]

We finished up today. It went really well, but any lesson heavily focused on food that concludes with actual great food is always going to go well! The students conspired to bring chiles en nogada and a couple other dishes … Mmmmm. Again, Barbara-Lee was great, and the opportunities are limitless…not a groundbreaking discovery in […]

You may notice the new Video link at the top. I’m adding a separate page for videos, just to see if it’s worth doing. We don’t do a lot of videos, but every so often we do, and that’s where I’ll put all the links together. There are some really old camp videos up there […]

One of the things we’ve wanted to take advantage of over the years is the demand for English. Even before we were “missionaries” Barbara-Lee was working on her Masters in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), which she finished after we joined EBM. Our first time in Puebla we didn’t do much with […]

After our good meeting with the health clinic last Friday, all the attendees decided that the gringos needed an introduction to Mexican food (actually, I let it out that Eddie needed an introduction). So they decided that they would make chalupas for us. Mmmmm…chalupas…. For those who have been corrupted by Taco Bell or just […]