January 2009 
Dear Faithful Friends of Ventana,
If the cows from California had their say, life would remain simple. Similar to the verdant fields of our neighbors north of the border, our Baja campus was transformed into a perfect pasture due to the winter rains. Despite being followed around campus by my two sons and being fed […]

At the turn of the Century there was a book floating around that was receiving rave reviews from the media. It took me a few months to get around to The Tipping Point, but once I picked it up it was rather challenging to put it down.
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                               (Micah with Dulce the Donkey)
The rains have been deliciously received these past few weeks.
With drought-like conditions the past few summers, and the fields withering beneath the sun and Santa Ana winds (yes, we get those in Baja as well), the hidden beauty of Valle de Guadalupe has been revealed of late. The hills are […]

To our intercessors, 
For most of you who are on our prayer team, I have been remiss in giving you a follow-up regarding our time with the staff from Mission Springs almost two weeks past. After they left our family took a few days to unwind a bit, invite a few friends in Porvenir over for […]

Since paintballs weren’t invented as yet, each fall my playmates and I used to fill old socks with pomegranates during our weekend WW2 reenactments. When thrown from an imagined bunker or pillbox, they created authentic blood stains making it easy to keep tally at the end of the game. To cap our exciting […]

You’ve probably heard before that girls don’t sweat, they glisten. This notion might hold true for those gals that are sent off to finishing schools in Alabama, but the Ventanero girls understand and experience smelly armpits and moist brows all the time. 

For our oldest son’s recent birthday, dear friends took him to Toys-R-Us and said, “Pick out a toy.” Initially he looked puzzled, but as the reality sunk in a huge smile stretched across his face.  They said he paced almost every toy isle reflecting on the perfect gift to cap his special day.

I’m not too keen on the history of space exploration (and for those of you who are might need to get outdoors more often) but my dim memory attributes this quote to the Apollo 13 mission where the astronauts believed returning to Earth was as probable as UCLA football making it to #1 on the […]

This is the question of the weekend!
As most of you know, Ventana Ministries has been at the National Youth Conference hosted by Youth Specialties this week and weekend. With our desire to attract more students and develop contacts with youth pastors we signed up for a booth in the exhibit hall at the conference. […]

Last year at this time (September) our little son Brock was barely five months old. He was completely satisfied with gazing into his mother’s eyes while nursing. The beauty and solitude of Hume Lake wasn’t even a concern in his dependent world. This year, however,