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We are moving ahead with plans to hold workshops in Cameroon and Nepal this summer. We will be holding workshops with the Baka and Esimbe people of Cameroon June 9–30. Four college graduate music interns will be working with us so they can use and sharpen their skills and clarify their vision for future service.…

God wants his people to praise him using both our minds and our emotions. Mind and heart come together forcefully in music, and so, as Augustine of Hippo said, “He who sings prays twice.” When the Holy Spirit takes the message of the Bible and applies it to our hearts, we want to use the…

I think it was Tolkien who said that life is what happens between scheduled appointments. By that definition we did a lot of living after the last post. The Internet went down all over Ayacucho on Saturday, and it was still off when we left on Monday, so putting together a blog post was out. That…

Monday dawned sunny and cool, and by midmorning we were on the road by taxi to Huanta, a town much smaller than Ayacucho. On the way we were treated to beautiful views of the Andean desert. After an hour and a half or so, we arrived in Huanta, which struck us as being much more…

Today I had to stop denying I’m suffering from altitude sickness. I slept the day away and still felt horrible when I got up in the late afternoon. Altitude sickness medicine left over from our trip here in October, coca-based tea (!), an asthma inhaler, aspirin, and the grace of God, and I’m at least…

By semantic domain: 1. not quite awake; pillow; blanket 2. thin air 3. headache; sore throat; cold; cough; sneeze 4. change currency 5. steep hill; out of breath We’re still recovering from traveling from 8am yesterday to 7am today and the altitude change to 9,000 feet. We had not counted catching a cold into the…

We thank God that we have had an enjoyable time with Nathan and his family in southern Alabama and are now at our gate in Atlanta waiting for our flight to Lima. We will arrive in Lima 11:30 this evening and depart for Ayacucho at 5:30 tomorrow morning, arriving 6:30 am. I’m much better at…

I’m not sure how our Quechua hosts got through a week of listening to our Spanish without ever once plugging their ears, but they did. We didn’t really get into the habit of checking such things as subject-verb agreement and what are the proper suffixes for subjunctive until our last day in the country, and…

If you’re short on time, here’s the bottom line: the workshop succeeded “beyond anything we could ask or imagine,” thanks be to God. As on the second day, we had new faces in the workshop on the third day, and some who had been there before did not return, so our final count was about…

Today we pretty much finished the lecture part of the workshop and turned the participants loose on composing new songs. Ginny and I both made a new friend. Ginny didn’t have to wash her shirt after spending time with her. My new friend isn’t as cute, but he’s better behaved. He would like to have…