This week we are both speaking in our Discipleship Training School on Relationships. Covering everything from Friendship, Honoring Parents, What is Love, Sexuality, Pornography, the Process of Choosing a Spouse. Needless to say, its a full but very interesting week of questions! Its been a long time
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As Americans gather to give thanks, we are reflecting too. In 2006, I (Marysol) was scouting in South Africa, questioning wether this is where God would send me long term. I felt very alone in the enormity of what God was calling me to start. While sitting
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A while back we started a series “Oh yes, we struggle!” replying to an email asking if we struggle and dispelling that missionary pedestal. Here’s Confession #3: Feeling inadequate: Here’s a candid list of questions that often runs through my head: Are we in the townships enough? Are
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Lately I’m asked via email or FB about traveling with babies. Particularly what to pack, what’s worth buying. I didn’t find alot of direct-from-a-real-mom-posts like this online when I was first researching, so perhaps this will be helpful to you. Here’s some of my favorite gear
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In the spirit of a royal wedding, I look back at my own epic romance. Well, most days neither epic nor romantic, but that’s the nature of all good love stories… that actually last. Note to self, William & Kate. Ok, so a couple years back I
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3 YEARS AGO I married the guy who I said I would never be attracted to, you know… the mullet guy. This is our first anniversary back in Nashville where we got married. I am filled with nostalgia as a result. I can not imagine life without this
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Lets just say when it came to our wedding, there were traditional elements and very non-traditional elements. For instance, instead of bouquets we did lanterns, for bridesmaid’s dresses we had Indian saaris. (see top photo) And the one thing I knew was not me at all was
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We walked into our next marriage seminar and quite honestly I was dreading it. See Part 1 to learn why. I still felt the weight of the last one and didn’t know if I had the energy to go there again. It was a cold day and
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I walked away and hid in the bathroom for a minute. In the privacy of a closed space I leaned against the wall and exhaled. It had been a long time since the despair had hit me, had sunken in like today. I’ve been in missions for
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Today’s VIDEO Book review is a 2 for the watching of 1. I’m reviewing two books that are similar in Nature: The White Masai and Married to a Bedouin. If you have ever wondered what it would be like to marry into an ancient tribe, these books
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