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Belize Trip

I just returned home from Belize last night.  D’Aun and I led a group of about 10 people on a five-day four-night trip.  We call these “vision trips” because they are designed to show people what PathLight does and why we do it. It was a great group of people who wanted to learn more about poverty, educational issues, and Belize.  By the end of the trip we had done and saw so much….and I saw a few hearts molded by the experience.  Thought I’d describe some of the trip here.

We arrived at Belize International Airport on Monday about …

Belize, PathLight,

PathLight Email List

I know everybody is getting tired of me pushing this….but can you please sign up for the PathLight email list?  You can do so by clicking onto PathLight and looking for the “Sign Up for Our Newsletter” button in the top right corner.

Just enter your email address and you are all set.  It will be easier for you, easier for us, save a few trees, and allow for a wider variety of communications (videos, pictures, online connections, etc.) than the old snail mail.

Thank you!…

Belize, PathLight,

PathLight's Impact: 1% to 10%

I often like to think of God as an artist.  We offer him a canvas to work with, which is sometimes blank and sometimes has parts already filled in.  The analogy only goes so far, of course, but it seems like our primary role is to be the easel that holds the canvas!  This blog entry is about being that easel.  Bear with me as I explain.

Three years ago this month I flew to Belize with my friend Mike Egusa.  Mike is the pastor at Mission Springs Community Church now, but about 15-years ago he and his family lived …

Belize, Family, PathLight,

Belize Videos

PathLight is working on several videos right now. Hope to have one that will provide a broad understanding of the work PathLight is doing, another one that focuses on the teacher training program, and then a series on each of the sponsorship students. Here is the original draft video done by my son, Jedd, several months ago. It’s not a finished product and was primarily used as a way to round out ideas for the final version.…

Apocryphal, Belize,

Book Burning

Reposting this by popular demand. Okay, so by demand of one person. Still, I take any kudos I can get.

This is ridiculously long to post on a blog, and it has a dated feel to it, but it’s just too good not to bring up again. I found it on my computer in a long lost file. This was printed in the early 90’s when Target Earth was in rapid expansion mode. It rattled a lot of cages when it was published!

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Do you really want to make a name for yourself? Would you like to be featured …

Belize, PathLight,

Literacy as Oppression

I recently read a book on ancient Greek history, and the author asserted that in the early days literacy was used as a tool of oppression.  I had to think about that for a few minutes.  But it does make sense.

The early alphabet was used as an accounting system.  Prose and poetry as we know them today did not exist in a written form.  The only thing written were entries about who owed who how much, or what weight a specific load of grain was.  It was all kept by officials to record financial transactions and, presumably, keep track …

Belize, PathLight,

Recent Belize trip

This was one of my fastest Belize trips ever, a total of 40-hours in the country.  But it was highly productive.

Two nights in a row, PathLight hosted focus groups at the Bull Frog Inn.  Invitees were thought-leaders in the country that brought a combination of political, educational, business and ministry skills.  Mark and Adrienne Parcher, the directors of PathLight, pulled the people together and facilitated the conversation.  They did a great job.

Among those attending were the President of a TV station, the Provost from the University of Belize, the Director of the Community Rehabilitation Department, the elected representative …