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True Faith

  1. October 16, 2012

    Standing on the Toes of Angry People

    This Bible was printed to be distributed in Ushuaia. They managed to distribute half of the Bibles that they had. There were thousands. The rest of the Bibles can not be distributed. They break a very important law.

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  2. November 23, 2009

    It was Time

    Yep. I had decided that wrestling with my hair was too much, so I did the best thing that anybody could do… cut it all off.

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  3. September 13, 2009

    Starving Yourself Can Be Healthy

    It started from a feeling that God was asking me to fast… after all, fasting is talked about all through the Bible. Then it continued with a realisation that most of the food I was eating was not really good for me. Finally, it all came to…

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  4. August 31, 2009

    Correcting Your Mistakes – on Camera

    The successes, and failures, of trying to fix an expensive video camera with the wrong tools.

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  5. January 21, 2009

    Birthday in Oz

    When I turned 40, it was a really big deal. Unfortunately for me, the people around me did not think the same way, and so my 40th birthday came and went without any fanfare at all. I guess when you are in the middle of Peru, surrounded by…

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  6. November 13, 2008

    Where Has the Help Gone?

    Loaded with a huge pile of books balanced precariously on top of each other, I turn the corner for the umpteenth time and pass through the crowd of young people gathered outside after dinner. One jumps up from his conversation and walks…

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  7. June 9, 2008

    Conquering the Snow

    A Day of Small Beginnings It was a bleak day when I set out towards town, ducking down to follow alongside a burbling stream with the aim of walking along the rocky beaches facing Lake Nahuel Huapi. This was a more preferable route…

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  8. September 17, 2007

    100 Years from Now

    A poem by Warren Parker

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  9. July 31, 2007

    Fleeing for My Life

    What just happened to my friend Paul and me still has my head reeling. It felt like I was living a movie scene… except they were real people chasing me, with real bullets flying over my head… and I was in some serious danger.

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  10. June 9, 2007

    House of Prayer

    It has been a long time in coming, but finally we have finished building the prayer house . The bathroom area still awaits completion but will be waiting a while. The important thing is that we can now use the house.

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