This year, while my dad was in Ethiopia, my mom, my sister and I were in the back alley lookingat a milkweed. A caterpillar crawled on a leaf. We were so excited. We picked the leaf and wenthome. We thought it was a Viceroy butterfly, but it was a Monarch! I called it Catty. The…
Laura Ingalls Wilder was a famous pioneer girl. Her childhood was spent going farther west. But never was it easy. Drought, grasshoppers, and other natural disasters kept their family from living conformably. A child-friendly version of her life story was written down. People all around read the tales of the brave pioneer girl and grew…
The Ministry Rationale The school’s theology of missions. Our school’s chancellor, John Piper, taught extensively on missions through his preaching and writing. Therefore, it is no surprise that every seminarian, regardless of their concentration, studies the history and theology of missions (3 credits) and is expected to serve in an intentional, supervised teaching ministry in…
In 2023, the DSouzas were busy making memories and are a little behind on updating our family and friends of the happenings. Spring update from Lauren The season had many firsts: Allie knitting a winter hat for her dada, making snow cones, making a snow fort with the big dump of snow that arrived, baking…
When we reflect on 2022, the word that sums the year up would be “calm.” By calm, I do not mean that the year did not have challenges common to each of us. Instead, it was unlike 2020 and 2021. In the year 2020, COVID-19 took the world hostage. The year 2021 proved to be…
Happy New Year! We want to thank each one of you who supported us through 2021 through your prayers, care, financial partnerships, and conversations. Honestly the years 2020 and 2021 are just one big year in our minds and it is hard to separate them. We tried to look back at the year 2021 and…
We thank God for keeping our family safe through the second quarter of the year even as our nation was grappling though a very bad second wave of COVID-19. Friends and family were ill. Many of the WhatsApp groups we are in would have updates of lives lost on a daily basis. It became emotionally…
The first quarter of the year has been a busy one for the DSouza household. Mia turned 5! We thank God for her. Eddie’s family came over to celebrate Mia’s birthday. Mia had multiple celebrations with various groups of friends. She made up for not having an event last year. School life School life has…
Ten years ago on this day I completed all the formalities for exiting from a job in a big Indian IT firm. I had just completed about four and a half years working for Infosys. I quit my job with the intention to preach the Gospel of Jesus while being employed full-time by Cross Cultured…
We were in Mangalore with Eddie’s parents as the quarter began. The kids were having a great time playing. Their schooling was minimal as they did not have much energy to concentrate while much play invited them. Eddie had to keep up with his Greek learning. In those early weeks, it took a lot from…