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La Jornada's Blog
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!
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Ken
Aug 12, 2024
Visiting prison and whatnot...
Andres and I went to see our wayward son in prison last week. It's a terrible place. I've been to the prison a few times over the...
Ken
Jun 13, 2023
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
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
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
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 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...
Ken
Apr 15, 2020
Martial Law?
We were warned over the weekend that Santa Cruz would be militarized on Tuesday. A lot of people and businesses weren't obeying the...
Ken
Apr 5, 2020
Quarantined and Bad Haircuts...
As it has with the rest of the world, the past few weeks have brought some dramatic changes to our lives. When it became clear what...
Ken
Nov 22, 2019
What's happening now?
If I had a dollar for every time I wrote, "Things are moving quickly here!" over the last few days of the civil strike...well, I'd have a...
Ken
Nov 1, 2019
Rally at the Cristo statue
Isabel and I biked to a big rally tonight at the Cristo. It was an interesting thing to be a part of. It was massive but peaceful with...
Ken
Oct 29, 2019
A day in the life of Ken...
I woke up at 5:40 am to go to the market before the lines got too bad. We thought we could make it in Isabel’s truck at that time of the...
Ken
Oct 28, 2019
Strikes, blockades and political crisis
On September 21st, we had our presidential elections and it didn't go well. According to Bolivian law, a candidate must have more than...
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