Signing up for Jesus’ love

What would Jesus do?  This question, although tragically watered down from the tons of WWJD gear that was passed around a few years back, should be very present on our hearts at all times.
We worked with a church in Las Vegas that reaches out to the poor and homeless throughout the week.  We joined them [...]

Hospitality worthy of God

Being on the road full time can be tough.  Parenting is difficult, it feels like we are parenting in a fishbowl, everybody watching how we discipline, how we interact with one another.  The stress of driving a vehicle that can at any time break down.  Discerning what the Lord is calling us to do day [...]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (just kidding)

There have been a few cities where we have done A LOT of walking.  We will never take the privilege of a vehicle of transportation at our fingertips for granted again! Las Vegas has been one of those cities.  We are all well exercised and sleeping well.  Walking not only has given us strong legs, [...]

The Duty of Delight

There is a part of me that feels like only writing about the interesting things in this ministry.  The food sharing times, the creative ministries we connect with, our encounters with God in all of this.  The truth is, most of our days are filled with usual things of life.  Washing clothes, washing dishes, cleaning, [...]

The story of the wise crack dealer

The past year the Lord has gradually revealed to us “truths” about His kingdom and how He wants us to advance it.  One of those “truths” is the concept of incarnational living.  Jesus was the Word made Flesh, He was God who was incarnated as a human and lived among us.  That is what incarnational [...]

He is Risen!!

And you all say…. “He is risen indeed!”
We are so happy to celebrate Easter with some friends, the Leonis, we met back in August as we traveled through the Grand Tetons.  We arrived here yesterday afternoon and have had a blast reconnecting and sharing many stories.  As I type Andy is putting the kids down [...]

What do we do?

I met the sweetest homeless man the other day.  Balentine spoke broken English, had a kind face, and looked like he was in his early to mid 50’s.  Out of the group of homeless we were with, he stood out among the crowd.  He smiled at Andy and I a few times and I caught [...]

Mary’s Kitchen

We have moved from El Segundo, CA to Yorba Linda, CA, another outlying city of Los Angeles.  Through a friend’s brother, we were connected with and now parked at Yorba Linda Friends Church, the church Richard Nixon and much of his family attended/planted back in the day.  It has changed  A LOT since Nixon attended [...]

Plans for the future

Dear friends and family,

Recently we have taken some time to process and pray through what is next for our family.  We know many of you have been wondering, and so have we!  The Lord has been slowly revealing His plans as we have journeyed across America and back.  We wanted [...]

Big Buster is alive….AGAIN!

Just wanted to give a quick update…
Big Buster has been in the fix-it shop for the past couple days. He needed a whole new computer for the transmission! Thousands of dollars later…we are ready to go again and much more confident of not breaking down. All of us are a little bit [...]