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Waiting...
I was listening to a podcast this morning, based on the book “Invitations from God” by Adele Calhoun, which is an amazing book that I had...
Roselands
Sep 8, 20218 min read


Ministry is Messy
I was on the phone with a close friend of ours, sharing some of the things that have taken place over the past few months. Her comment of...
Roselands
Jul 7, 20218 min read


Slimy, Yet Satisfying
Most of you will get the Lion King reference in the title, but it was something that we were joking around about this past week. It sure...
Roselands
May 10, 20215 min read


Gifts to Serve One Another
As many of you know, we have our 5 older kids that God brought into our lives in different seasons of life. About a year ago, we were...
Roselands
Mar 1, 20217 min read


Is Food a Love Language?
These past few months have been filled to the brim, but it has been beautiful to experience the rest and peace of God. Over the past four...
Roselands
Jan 11, 20219 min read


"Monkish" Sabbatical
Some people have asked how my sabbatical went. The only way to describe it is a time of drenching rain on parched soil...I guess after 15...
Roselands
Nov 10, 202010 min read


Inconvenience or God's plan?
Howdy y’all! This is Ximena. It has been a while, I know! I wanted to let you know that you have been in my thoughts and prayers. I have...
Roselands
Sep 28, 20205 min read


New-ish Normal
We left off at the beginning of April. Over the next few months, some of our home life and ministry has been the same, but there have...
Roselands
Jul 6, 202010 min read


God-Given Opportunities
As soon as we came back from the family trip to Mexico, there was a renewed closeness for our family of 9. Honestly, those first few days...
Roselands
Apr 2, 20206 min read


A Christmas to Remember
ACT 1: Best Mission Trip Ever! by Richard As we started planning this family trip, I (Richard) could see that Ximena was getting really...
Roselands
Jan 20, 202015 min read


Upside Down Thank You
We wanted to start this update off in a little bit of a different tone. A lot of times we share all of the positive and “cool” things...
Roselands
Nov 26, 201910 min read


We prayed for opportunities and God gave them to us!
One of Ximena’s dreams after coming back from Ecuador was to have all of the teenagers from the trip over to our home. Since a few of the...
Roselands
Sep 30, 20196 min read


Beautiful Chaos
Today is the first day where it is just our family of 4, alone in our home, since we left in May. We have been on the road, in multiple...
Roselands
Aug 11, 20195 min read


Spoiled Rotten
These past few weeks have really been incredible and great to see God spoiling us! We can feel your prayers for us, our family, and our...
Roselands
May 29, 20196 min read


Yeshua and El Roi
This past month has definitely been a hard one emotionally for our family. What started as an easy-looking, smooth-sailing kind of month,...
Roselands
Apr 1, 201910 min read


Don't worry! Jesus is still King. Everything will be alright!
One of our prayer requests this past month was for us to be able to catch a breath and just have "normal" time with a little less chaos....
Roselands
Mar 1, 20197 min read


Roseland Update from Ximena's Point of View
Usually, Ximena and I write our update together, although I do the writing and Ximena is in charge of the pictures. So we think through...
Roselands
Dec 21, 20184 min read


Bring on the Craziness!
We usually start each update by looking at the previous month’s update, just so we know where to start. As we were reading the last...
Roselands
Dec 1, 201810 min read
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