There are days that hurt. I am not talking about those days after having a workout at your favorite fitness club, or those days after that hockey tournament, or those days when your body simply says…ouch. Then there days that I am talking about are those that are lodged in our memory that we can’t [...] Read more »

We live in a consumeristic culture. How many times have you heard me say that? I, too, am a product of consumerism. I can choose to have my food or coffee exactly how I want it when I want it. I can customize my music playlist to my exact taste and take it with me [...] Read more »

Sharon and I have been invited to attend a marriage conference in Midland Texas. We are the guests of Living Waters and are down here with our friends Kenny and Paula. For a couple of years we have been invited to attend but were not able to take the time. So this year we took [...] Read more »

We had a meeting with our key host for the last 8 years and a new pastor and his family that I was able to connect with in the last few months.  This meeting occured over dinner. LIKE, NO WAY! Again, it was fantastic. I ate Baracuda! Yeah Baby, there it was head and all! [...] Read more »

When arrived at Wisma Kaseh the students were ready for us. We had a time of praise and worship and sharing, I took the opportunity to remind them why were are in Indonesia. And it all comes back to Alana and continuing the work that she started. Sharon read the letter that Alana gave me [...] Read more »

We had the opportunity to go shopping at an outdoor mall. It was wall to wall Batik. I noticed that when we drove in that there was an unusal amount of police. As Sharon and some of the ladies scattered and got lost malling, I went back to talk to the cops. There was about [...] Read more »

Enough said. We went out for lunch had chicken, rice, vegatables, and tripe soup. The soup was fantastic………then it was time to move on. Read more »

So we moved onto the next leg of our trip which was to purchase two printers for the orphanage. Again, from our perspective this was another ordeal. In Canada, we would walk into the box store and pull the item off the shelf then take it to the cashier, pay and go home, then pull [...] Read more »

After a solid breakfast with our interpreter we were picked up by a new host for the day named Susi Lani. We made our way back to Wisma Kaseh to pick up some of the staff as we had some errands to run with them. The first destination was to go to a music store [...] Read more »

We began our journey to Wisma Kaseh. On the way there we had an interesting moment. A person looking for handouts on the side of the street had trained a money to wear a mask, carry a guitar and to dance for people while waiting at a stoplight. That was wild, I’ll post a picture [...] Read more »

We ate! Seriously, I am so full after breakfast, add the heat, there is just no appetite for this fat white guy. But I guess it is not all about me! Today we had something different and went for pizza! We had pizza in Solo at “O Solo Mio” and it was very good. It [...] Read more »

This was an usual stop in our travels. We went to a Batik museum and factory. We were given a tour of how Batik was made and what all the different styles symbolized. It was fascinating as I never realized how long and difficult the process of making the patterns on the material was. We [...] Read more »

After a good rest we had a breakfast meeting with our host Paulus and amother local Pastor (Michael) and his wife (Debra). It was great to connect and meet new people and they can also hear and embrace our vision for what we are doing in Indonesia.  Michael and Debra has a heart for kids [...] Read more »

Traditionally, we went to a resturant to spend time with the students and their families however this time was different as we went to the church where Pak Paulus use to pastor and we had a time of sharing with students and thier families. This was a great time where they asked questions about Soul [...] Read more »

We finished lunch….. really! The Indonesian people value making sure that thier guests are full….seriously, full. We went back to the hotel and relaxed. I took the opportunity to walk the streets of Solo and heard many a “cat call” to get my attention. I was called “mister” and my favorite “boss” as I walked [...] Read more »