Evendays

The woman who bore me and her husband (who happens to be my dad) arrived safely in Zurich on the overnight flight from Dallas. They are doing much better than the last time they came (in 1998). That time, mom’s first words were: I’m never doing that again!
But they did.
On the way back to Lausanne, [...]

From Lamin Sanneh’s Whose Religion is Christianity?, pages 64-65:
News of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, did not reach the tribe until a Maasai student returned from the United States to his people with the story some eight months after the fact. Using Maasai narrative form, the student carefully recounted the scale and details [...]

From Lamin Sanneh, Whose Religion is Christianity?, pages 59-60:
The Maasai of East Africa… speak in their so-named African Creed of believing as a community rather than as individuals, and instead of casting their creed in cognitive abstract terms of the seen and unseen, of Christ as eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, light [...]

V. and his wife came over the other evening. I met him about 4 years ago. He had been crying. haunted by things done in the past, wondering if God would forgive him. He started bringing his two children to church though he understands nothing but Spanish, being unable to pick up French because of [...]

This last Christmas, the kids gave us tickets to the Mummenschanz show in Bern. So two days after our wedding anniversary, Wife and I drove to the Swiss capital, found a restaurant that served onion rings and burgers, then slipped into the theater to enjoy the show.
If you’re a Muppet fan, you may be familiar [...]

Greg’s got a post up at the Yancey blog: Prayer, does it make a difference. Please check it out. 
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The trip to Ternopil wasn’t planned. The servants there asked me to come and help them deal with a “power-play” made by one of the lay-preachers. He wanted to become “head” pastor and, with a group of [...]

Just back from a week in Ternopil, Ukraine, spending time with the church there. And I’m home in time for Daughter’s 17th birthday. She was born on a Sunday and has brightened up our home ever since.
So, Happy Birthday, Daughter. We love you!
(BTW, 1990 was an exceptional year for daughters and for French clarets…)

 
A couple of weeks ago, my mountaineering buddy Philippe and I took a group of 5 Pepperdine students (picture) snow-shoeing in the Valais Alps in the region above Sierre called Vercorin.
Unfortunately, I told the students they needed to be in good shape to do the 10 to 12 kilometers we’d planned.
They finished the hike [...]

One day I spied Father-In-Law (FIL) checking out my monitor, all 17 inches of it. “You can sure read the text easily on that thing”, said he. “Not only that, but you can get more that one page of a document on there,” I replied, sensing an opportunity. “I have a lot of trouble reading [...]

They did a great job, that Marseilles chorus. On Friday afternoon they sang at the Bethany Home where 50 of the residents deeply appreciated the time of worship. And the Home laid out a great spread for the travelers. Wonderful!
The nearby Protestant church loaned us their “temple” on Friday night and between 50 and 60 [...]