ADE's Zero Down: Biblical Development Conference

I hope you enjoyed the videos I made for our first ever conference. I'm getting really excited as we'll be hosting this bilingual conference really looking at the difficult questions of mission and development and how to do them in the most biblical way possible. We'll have different speakers, but the biggest part (I think) will be all the different people, with their views and experiences, coming together and seeking the answers together.

We're partnering with Esepa Seminary, Fedemec, and Ted and Graciela Quiocho from CHE to bring together a pretty sweet conference. Together we're compiling a great group of speakers and participants, including Juan Stam (pending on some health issues). It's going to be pretty awesome for sure! I'll be doing a lot of prep for this over the next couple of months which will definitely keep me busy.

So if you're at all interested in any of these things: check out the website (www.glocalADE.org/conf) or send me an email!

School 2011 Starts!

We just started our second year of our school here. Check out this ADE blog post to see what we've been up to and the main things we've been doing recently and even some awesome pictures  :)

ADE Blog

ADE Blog!

Hey friends! I've got another blog for you to follow: blog.glocalADE.org! I'll be doing a lot of updating on that regularly. Some of the info may overlap, but I guarantee it will be worth your while. Make sure to share it with others too!

Also be sure to be praying for us as we're having a group of 26 people coming this Friday! It's a graduate class from Eastern University studying international development. We'll be focusing on natural disasters and sustainable development. It's going to be an exciting week, but please keep us in mind :)

ADE Website

So the ADE website is up and running! There are still a couple of pages under construction, but overall it's good. You should definitely check it out:

www.glocalADE.org

On it you can see me on the ADE staff page and get my new email. You can see our internship opportunities as well as our short term opportunities for this spring and summer. We're even planning on doing a family camp this summer for a week, which should be awesome! You can start following us on Twitter and even become a fan of ADE on Facebook. Also go through our participate pages as you can see how you can be involved with us here in Costa Rica. (For those of you who had asked me to send you a support letter, though I'm still not raising support, we are asking for people to invest in our high school students and projects that we're doing. So check out the "Invest" page.)

There's a lot of exciting things going on and as usual: plenty of work to do. I'm getting really excited about our spring break opportunities and really building our network more and more to benefit this community.

ADE & Me Update

Hi Friends! Sorry I've been so bad at updating this. Over the past couple of weeks I have been working a lot to get the ADE website up and going (I'll pass on the link ASAP). I wanted to update this blog every day this week, but that got off to a very bad start. So here's a couple interesting things from my time here and I'll try and update again soon.


- I eat tamales almost everyday (and often for breakfast)
- I woke up in the middle of the night the other night to an earthquake
- I watched my puppy get mauled by a rooster
- I made a papaya juice myself
- I can now officially make a fire in my fire place at the cabin


Check back again soon :)