Fiddling

Yep, been fiddling with the blog layout and design! What do you think? I've been working with the fonts and colors, trying to make it more readable...hard to pick colors that stand out well against the orange! With so many very cute backgrounds to choose from, it is hard to choose!!!!

International company

One of the things I love about our ministry is the variety of people that we get to meet! For instance, over a Venezuelan meal at supper tonight (arepas stuffed with shredded beef, fried plantains, beet-potato salad, and brown sugar lemonade), I found myself rather amused by the different backgrounds each of us has:

Miguel: Venezuelan, now U.S. citizen, resident of Arkansas also has spent time in Colombia, now living in Mexico

Becky: American, family from Oklahoma, MK from Colombia, now Arkansas resident, also spent time in Venezuela, now living in Mexico

My kids: Venezuelan-Americans living in Mexico

Guest #1: Austrian missionary to the Philippines, currently visiting Mexico

Guests #2 & 3: Texans, missionaries in Latin America-most recently Paraguay, studying Spanish in Mexico on their way back to Paraguay

And all of us sharing a common bond in Christ!

Posted below is a picture of an arepa stuffed with cheese...

just in case you were wondering what those might look like.

I really wanted to take a picture of the arepas I cooked tonight, but alas!

No batteries for the camera...

The arepa is a food staple in Colombia and Venezuela,

made of a pre-cooked corn flour.

Most people there eat them every day!

Since we can't get that kind of corn flour here,

they really are a special treat for us these days (there is a Latin food store

across the border where we can buy it).

In Venezuela, it is common to stuff them with many different fillings,

including shredded beef, chicken, or pork-also scrambled eggs,

cheese, tuna, deviled ham, boiled quail eggs, beef tongue, etc.

Add to that some garlic sauce and you have a wonderful meal

for breakfast, lunch, or supper!