Picture of the Week
A student from the Lipscomb University group that was here last week shot this picture. It was just too funny not to post! Please feel free to click on the image to enlarge it.
Archive for March, 2009
Mar
29
Mar
29
Gourmet Pizza
For the last few weeks, Natasha and I have had the opportunity to go out to dinner one night a week with our American friends Matt and Ashley who both live here in Ensenada. Matt is from Ohio and works for Baja Missions and Ashley is from Arkansas and works in Colonia 89. This week [...]
Mar
28
Corn Anyone?
One of the things we get to do for the groups that visit the City of Children is purchase their food. Each group’s head cook sends us a menu and grocery list a month or two before they arrive. Then Jeff and I stock the shelves so that when their group gets here all of their [...]
Mar
23
Lipscomb Mission Trip Pictures
We had a GREAT week with the Lipscomb University spring break mission team last week. Here are a few pictures from the week…
Mar
23
Appreciation
Two of my closest friends were a part of Lipscomb’s mission team last week, and it was so great to have them here. Towards the end of the week, we were talking about favorite parts of their trip. One said that his favorite thing happened when he was leaving the baby dorm at the end [...]
Mar
21
Strawberry Cake
Natasha and I started bringing groups of Lipscomb University students back in 1996. Since then, thousands of college students from Lipscomb have come to Baja. It was the first mission trip we ever led as well as the first mission trip we ever participated in. Well, this week was another first for us involving an [...]
Mar
15
A Good Day for Jaqueline
Every Sunday we invite those kids down to the office who have received gifts during the week from their sponsors. If the kids have behaved that week, they are allowed to come down and open them. Well, Jaqueline has had a rough couple of weeks. Luckily, she had a good week last week and was [...]
Mar
15
Chasing Bubbles
I was sitting at the dinner table on Sunday afternoon working on the computer, when out of the corner of my eye I noticed something float in front of the window next to me. Assuming it was a little bird, I continued working. But when it happened again, I quickly glanced over and watched as a large bubble [...]
Mar
7
Spring is in the Air
As many of our friends and family continue to struggle with the cold and snowy conditions of winter, we are beginning to see signs of spring all around us. I’ve always said that spring was my favorite time of the year – being in Mexico right now confirms that. Everything here is so green, wild [...]
Mar
7
Daylights Savings Woes
For most of you reading this, you will lose an hour of sleep tonight as you spring your clocks forward an hour to account for Daylights Saving Time. Not here in Mexico. We have to wait a month before we get to spring forward. So what that means is that we are now 4 hours [...]