by Jeannie | Nov 4, 2011 | buildingaboat, Uncategorized
If you have a sister, you can remember how you felt at one point about them when you were younger, and how you may have looked up to them, wished they would leave you alone, or how your life seemed to be measured somehow by who they were or were not. I watch my girls...
by Jeannie | Sep 7, 2011 | buildingaboat, Uncategorized
Time for school, for schedules and a great need for priority in our lives. It’s Young Life season again, kicking off Monday, September 12th. With collectively 28 College leaders mentoring our middle and high schoolers, NW Austin Murchison (and area private...
by Jeannie | Aug 17, 2011 | buildingaboat, Uncategorized
I just learned today, that a friend in Mexico was baptized. Daniel at Casa Bugambillia, a clinic in Mexico, has been cared for and loved well by these people. When we met, he was paralyzed from a gunshot to the neck. His road has been long and anything but easy. I...
by Jeannie | Jul 26, 2011 | buildingaboat, Uncategorized
As we walked the streets one day with our friends in Mexico, we came upon this scene. I love the story of a single photo… In a state of severe poverty is how we found her, living next door to another family we were visiting. Dirt floors, no plumbing, but some...
by Jeannie | Jul 21, 2011 | buildingaboat, Uncategorized
Today and within the last several days, I’ve been reading through drafts and looking through photos for the book project for a very talented writer, Audra Outlaw, and remember our many adventures as she interviewed many that have impacted our own stories. As she...
by Jeannie | Jul 2, 2010 | buildingaboat, Uncategorized
As we entered the Experience Africa night with Wilson Bugembe and heard his story, we made our way over to Scott Lambie afterwards. Scott moved to Africa not too long ago from Austin, and was visiting Austin for various reasons. We had previously sent his wife, whom...
