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After some much needed rest and TLC (how do cabins in the mountains by a lake with a full rainbow sound? 🙂 ), we headed back to Comitan to work with the Mousers for the weekend. Ron and Ivonne [...]

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could be reminded to pray for the Remote Jungle Team every time you turned on your phone? Well, you can! Download the the very cool Indiana Jones-ish looking [...]

The team is finishing up their final mission trip prep before they leave for Chiapas on Saturday. Amy even tweeted that she had run her last pre-trip errand! (Ummm… we’ll see if she [...]

Plan de Ayala, Nuevo Mexico, Palma Real (Tojolobal Jungle) Well contrary to what you might hear, sleeping in a hammock is harder than it seems! Our whole group was split between three different [...]

San Cristobal to Plan de Ayala (Tojolobal Jungle) Today was our first out to the jungle. We headed out to the town of Plan de Ayala, 3 hours into the mountains. We arrived around lunchtime, [...]

It was great being at my home church (Heritage Bible Church in Riverside, CA) yesterday morning! During the Sunday school hour I gave an update on Global Encounters in 2011. Here’s a link [...]

Generic depersonalized labor is useful and at times necessary for service projects, but it’s not my favorite part of short-term missions work.  It is far more interesting to see each member [...]

Destinations: Ch’ol Jungle – Carranza, Cuctielpa, Maria Morelos Beep…beep…beep. Our alarms buzzed as we all climbed out of bed and quickly finished last-minute preparations before [...]

Hey y’all, So today being Sunday we went to church. But instead of your traditional church building, Nathan took us to a small hut up on the hill behind his house. It was about a 20-minute hike [...]

Destinations: San Cristobal, San Juan Chamula Today my clean little American world collided with reality. Our team traveled to San Juan Chamula which is where the persecution in Chiapas is [...]