Video about church plant project for April 2014

The following video gives a brief explanation about our school's purpose and mission and a current project to build a church in the nearest community. Sara Ross, a missionary volunteer who lives in Canada, is organizing a group to come in April and help us finish the church construction project there. We are super excited! Sara asked us for a short video, and I was able to get some help putting this together while here at the TV station in Santa Cruz.
Nine minute video about church plant project in Yata.

Bolivia Industrial School promotional brochure!

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Bolivia Industrial School brochure

The BEST bread!

“Thy words were found and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart, for I am called by thy name, oh Lord God of hosts” Jeremiah 15:16

I ate a crusty piece of plain bread the other day: without butter, jam, or any accouterments. It wasn’t even raisin or garlic or seven-grain bread. Yet as I gave it an uncharacteristically perseverant and methodical chew, I was slowly satisfied with the unpretentious pleasure of carbohydrates transformed into simple sugars. As the mouthful of mainstay fare took on a delightful flavor, I suddenly realized how much I’ve been affected by today’s pandering society of instant gratification: I’m usually too hurried to catch this flavor! My swallow reflex has been trained to fire early due to long habits of bolting down my meals, and hence the humbler food gets taken out of tasting range and is subsequently branded as unpalatable, or bland at best. We prefer flavors to burst forth immediately: we have no patience for thorough mastication, and one result of that is poor digestion.

 There is a spiritual application in this. Could it be that we are so accustomed to highly processed, fluffy, pre-packaged spiritual meals that we don’t have the patience to chew the simple Bread of Life, or to personally meditate, and mull over the scriptures until the sweetness emerges, and thus we have no stomach for simple and wholesome soul-nourishment? Has the desire for quick results dwarfed our capacity to follow a prolonged train of thought, and follow the links in a well-made chain of reasoning? Many of us don’t have the perseverance to stick to a job, whether intellectual or physical, when the work is slow and arduous. We are seldom content to do painstaking work with no sign of proximate reward. To read books is a laborious chore unless they have the consistency of whipped cream, or at least enough sugar or spice to keep me swallowing. But there is a very good reason that Jesus called himself the bread of life: not the whip cream, not the bread and butter, not the bread and jam, not even the toasted raisin-bread! Isn’t it time to that we learned to “Taste and see that the Lord is good” on his terms?  (Psalms 34:8).