Heaven's Family Stories

The World Didn’t End!

Despite the Mayan calendar's alleged forecast and other dire 2012 predictions, last year wasn't the natural disaster grand finale that films and tabloids heralded it would be. God is still in control.

01 Mar

A Bubbling Business

Take one discarded beer keg, a motor from an old washing machine, a cylinder of compressed CO2 gas, a little ingenuity, and lots of used plastic soda bottles. Put them all together and what do you get?

01 Mar

Jigger Wars

You don't think much of it at first; it's just a sore spot on the bottom of your foot. Once it becomes a raised white bump with a black dot in the middle, you give it a little touch—and it moves! That's when you realize that you've got a tiny parasite living under your skin known in Africa as a jigger, the world's smallest known flea.

28 Feb

Visiting the Panda Park

Though fake, it is still fun to get your picture taken with some paper pandas! For children in Myanmar, education is usually the highest priority—and seen as their only hope for escaping poverty. In addition to their normal school classes, teachers encourage children to sign […]

25 Feb

A Pot for a Prize

Gin Hau Lian, right, receiving an award for his achievements in his church’s Sunday School class. I know it’s a little odd for our culture, but believe it or not, a pot is a prize worth competing for in Myanmar! The 10 children of Bethel […]

21 Feb

Off-Road Vehicle [David’s 6th and Final Blog from Zimbabwe and Malawi]

Stranded: In spite of the efforts of 20 young Malawian men who worked for hours in the rain, our rented van could not be extracted from the ditch. I’m so glad that Dick Samuels is the one who drove us to Chidothe Village for the […]