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Welcome to La Jornada's blog! This is where you can find out more of what happens day to day in the house. Life, funny moments, prayer requests and whatever falls in between! Come back often and we'll do our best to keep you updated!

Ken

Jun 13

Ken never does things the easy way...

So, yeah..something fairly important happened in my life a few weeks ago. In my defence, I FULLY planed in my head to tell my mother. ...

Ken

Aug 31, 2022

Andres is getting married!

I remember very clearly when the picture below was taken. It was my first visit to Bolivia and I was asked to help out at a boys' home...

Ken

May 16, 2022

Toborochi Trees!

The Toborochi tree is one of the symbols of Santa Cruz. They're all over the city. They're one of a number of flowering trees we have. ...

Ken

May 10, 2022

Road trip!

A few months ago, Isabel and I visited one of Isabel’s favourite areas of Bolivia, a town called Santiago de Chiquitos in eastern Bolivia....

Ken

Mar 29, 2022

My latest "God intervened" moment...

I had a funny moment on the way back from our road trip with the guys. We were travelling in two vehicles and we stopped for lunch in a...

Ken

Feb 22, 2022

A good tropical rain...

Our gringos got a good taste of what a tropical rain in Bolivia looks like. I saw the clouds coming, but I really didn't think it was...

Ken

Jan 4, 2022

Decorating and the annual bribes....

The first Christmas we were in the house, my parents came to visit the end of November. They didn't stay for Christmas, but they were...

Ken

Dec 7, 2021

Gettin' the house looking pretty...

We used to paint inside the house every couple of years. Then we started doing it in conjunction with the Christian school. All those...

Ken

Oct 21, 2021

Sandro's a good preacher...

Well, maybe he wasn't preaching exactly, but Sandro is getting really good at public speaking. He hates it mind you, because he gets so...

Ken

Sep 6, 2021

Rain never slows us down...

I learned a long time ago (and my wife has reinforced this often), if you want to be a good camba (someone from Santa Cruz), you need to...

Ken

Jun 12, 2021

What it's like to be a pincushion...

I wanted to say a big thanks to everyone who’s posted encouraging comments on Facebook and who’ve been praying this past week. It’s been...

Ken

Feb 15, 2021

What Happened to Carnival?

Well, you know it’s serious when they cancel Carnival… I’m not sure this has ever happened before in the history of Bolivia, but Carnival...

Ken

Aug 20, 2020

Civil unrest...here we go again...

As most of you know, Bolivia shut down last fall for three week, for a country-wide civil strike to protest the illegal election of our...

Ken

Aug 8, 2020

Birthdays...

With ten guys in the house, plus Isabel, Andres, Daniel and I...we celebrate a lot of birthdays! One week in July we had a birthday on...

Ken

Jul 12, 2020

Noche de San Juan

This week we celebrated the "Night of Saint John".....by roasting hotdogs over a bonfire... Some days you just have to go with the flow...

Ken

Jul 3, 2020

My life as a...missionary?

Much has been written about the missionary life. Often in more eloquently ways than I would likely be able to express. Those amazing...

Ken

Jun 22, 2020

Rowing our collective boat.

Let me start by saying that, in my defense, I did realize that it was raining last night. The thunder woke me up and I heard the rain. ...

Ken

May 31, 2020

Origami?

In our ongoing quest to keep everyone occupied, last week at our Saturday lunch with the guys, my wife came up with the idea of making...

Ken

May 29, 2020

The quarantine continues...again...

It's difficult to even know what to say. We've now been on a quarantine lock-down for 76 days. The president made a statement that the...

Ken

May 13, 2020

When life is hard to describe...

Sometimes I find it hard to describe exactly what life feels like down here. Experiences begin to fall so far outside the norm that it’s...