Confessions of *Failure and Success

The idea was simple:
1) Start with international relationships2) Import coffee from their villages3) Roast4) Market5) Sell
Problem 1) The coffee trees burned in Nigeria (our first country of origin)2) No feesable way to import coffee from Hondorus (we missed the harvest)3) Where next; Haiti, Guatamala, El Salvador, Mexico, Indonisia, Camoroon, Kenya?4) Kenya, YES5) Meet Elijah, sorry, [...]

Here is a pic of my father with a girl from Stephen’s Children, the ministry he represents in North America. This picture is important because of the way my father has shaped my future, by changing my world view. When I struggle with faith issues I often think of children like this and [...]

I shake when I read these words:
A comment from an email to my father from Bala:
“Our plans were for you to have a different seminar from Scott. Each of you will have a separate seminar with a minimum of 250 IN EACH SEMIINAR. You are expected to provide some counseling of people and interact [...]

For three weeks on June 29th to Cape Town South Africa and I am looking for ideas to send her off.
Here is what I am working with right now:
*A spiritual formation journal with an entry for her to read every day, and respond with me in her journal
*Uploading her favorite music to itunes in her [...]

Working for your familyWorking with your friends,How easy it is to make emends,For the branches you breakAnd the risks that you take.
When will this cycle end…
I do not know,
Will I ever know?Will you ever show,Your face around me again?
Created order is what I believe in,Chaotic disorder is what I live in,
How could I do this [...]

We all grow up with it:
The way we see ourselves and the way we see others, along with our perspective on the world we live in.
As a Christian I grew up with the perspective of what was “right” and what was “wrong”.
Knowing more about the world I live in, I realize now, what I like [...]

It has been said that only seven percent of the work force is entrapenueral and I believe it.
The word entrapenuer:
# Innovator. One who recognizes opportunities and organizes resources to take advantage of the opportunity.
# Someone who is willing to assume the responsibility, risk and rewards of starting and operating a business.
# A French term for [...]

Start with what hurts…
Why does it hurt?Why does the anxiety rise in my stomach when I know what your thinking?
Even though I know a perception is just a point of view and not an objective truth, that persons opinion effects, well, me…
Here is possibly an interesting note:
“There are very few people I want to be [...]

This past weekend Andrea and I celebrated our five years of marriage with food, fun, friends, family, shopping, love making, and an inn and spa.
In our reflections upon the past five, we came to some realizations:
Marriage is a choice we get to make every dayI want to be on this ride of life with the [...]