Most of you will get the Lion King reference in the title, but it was something that we were joking around about this past week. It sure...

As many of you know, we have our 5 older kids that God brought into our lives in different seasons of life. About a year ago, we were...

These past few months have been filled to the brim, but it has been beautiful to experience the rest and peace of God. Over the past four...

Some people have asked how my sabbatical went. The only way to describe it is a time of drenching rain on parched soil...I guess after 15...

Howdy y’all! This is Ximena. It has been a while, I know! I wanted to let you know that you have been in my thoughts and prayers. I have...

We left off at the beginning of April. Over the next few months, some of our home life and ministry has been the same, but there have...

As soon as we came back from the family trip to Mexico, there was a renewed closeness for our family of 9. Honestly, those first few days...

ACT 1: Best Mission Trip Ever! by Richard As we started planning this family trip, I (Richard) could see that Ximena was getting really...

We wanted to start this update off in a little bit of a different tone. A lot of times we share all of the positive and “cool” things...

One of Ximena’s dreams after coming back from Ecuador was to have all of the teenagers from the trip over to our home. Since a few of the...

Today is the first day where it is just our family of 4, alone in our home, since we left in May. We have been on the road, in multiple...

These past few weeks have really been incredible and great to see God spoiling us! We can feel your prayers for us, our family, and our...

This past month has definitely been a hard one emotionally for our family. What started as an easy-looking, smooth-sailing kind of month,...

One of our prayer requests this past month was for us to be able to catch a breath and just have "normal" time with a little less chaos....

Usually, Ximena and I write our update together, although I do the writing and Ximena is in charge of the pictures. So we think through...

We usually start each update by looking at the previous month’s update, just so we know where to start. As we were reading the last...