Back in the flow
With a free first-class upgrade Karina & I drifted out of the cloud of fundraising and landed softly back on Costa Rican turf about 2...
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- Aug 21
- 2 min
Let go and let God
Howdy doody from Texas! We’ll we’ve wrapped up our fundraising campaign for the year. From Florida to California we’ve crossed the...
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- Jul 27
- 5 min
Our Summer Newsletter
“Bringing the profound love of Jesus Christ to the BriBri tribe and providing a safe, loving, and Christ-centered shelter to protect the...
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- Jul 17
- 2 min
Chocolate chickens
As I look around the Nest today I see a little village popping up in the jungle. We have the large Casona house and main meeting area...
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- May 31
- 3 min
An impossible faith
So the other day I turned 53, which has brought me to reflect over my life, as birthdays often do. I ponder where I’ve been, the...
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- May 8
- 2 min
Follow through
I was recently watching a video talking about the importance of a golf swings “ follow through”. It indicated that where the ball ended...
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- Apr 18
- 2 min
7 souls saved on resurrection Sunday
I have some great news to share with you all. Last weekend we hosted our first ever three-day youth conference at the Nest. Thirty-four...
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- Mar 26
- 2 min
Leaving an impact
Over the last couple of years that I’ve been at the Nest, I’ve witnessed so many folks come & go and seen them leave an impact with their...
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- Mar 15
- 2 min
Men at work
Usually, the sound of men working at the Nest involves grunting as they labor under heavy loads, chainsaws ripping away at trees, hammers...
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- Feb 28
- 2 min
Say what?
Today I asked my coworker for a saw and got a hammer instead. He then asked me for the measuring tape and instead I gave him a nail. This...
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- Feb 21
- 2 min
The Hill
Everyone who’s ever been up to the Nest will tell you it leaves them absolutely breathless. That’s because they just had to climb The...
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- Jan 28
- 2 min
Fun & Games
While walking on the beach a couple of months ago Karina felt a spiritual prompting in concern for the upcoming school vacation and the...
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- Jan 3
- 2 min
The momentum of the Christmas story
I don’t mean to add to your post-holiday blues with this post, but I would like to remind myself of the whole reason behind the reason of...
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- Dec 10, 2022
- 2 min
Christmas cheer
One major reason the Christmas holiday season is one of cheer is because it causes me to look at all the good things in the people around...
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- Nov 22, 2022
- 2 min
PROvision
Time and time again the intertwining story of The Nest is one of God's providence and provision. We often cast a prayer forward only to...
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- Oct 8, 2022
- 2 min
Twig people
I’m thinking about how birds painstakingly build their nests. One little twig at a time. They find just the right spot, furnish it with...
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- Aug 29, 2022
- 2 min
Pura Vida.
In every culture, you can find a phrase that sums up life as it is, and which has many meanings. Down here in Costa Rica the national...
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- Aug 23, 2022
- 1 min
A mid-air heart transplant
It was somewhere between Florida and Atlanta, GA at about 30,000 feet that my heart underwent its surgery. In the cloudy stratosphere of...
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- Jul 20, 2022
- 2 min
Defining success?
How does one define success in a fundraising venture? Is it the dollars raised and the contacts made? Is it narrowed down to numbers on a...
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- May 12, 2022
- 1 min
Little kid graffiti
The grunt of manual labor, the buzz of chainsaws, and the hammering of construction have all become familiar sounds at the Nest these...
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