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Your Eulogy

I’m sitting in the restaurant of the Bull Frog Inn, Belmopan, Belize. It’s a great place to buy a diet coke and get free wireless.
bull-frog-inn
The downside? They play a local radio station that is addicted to Taylor Swift.

Another curious thing about the radio station is they periodically broadcast eulogies of local people who have passed. It’s a small town, so it’s a short list, and it’s all rather quaint. Sweet, actually.

One thing consistent in all the eulogies is how they describe what the deceased leaves behind. It’s never a list of jobs, possessions, or worldly achievements. It’s …

Fueling Ambition

This afternoon an email arrived from the PathLight Belize Field Director. He said 27 new first year students have been admitted to the Sponsorship+ program, the largest class in PathLight’s history. How cool is that?!?

Did you know you can help for just $35 a month? The Fueling Ambition program is designed to help these students — most of whom do not have sponsors — to get a hot lunch each day in school. We’ve all heard how good nutrition impacts a students ability to learn, so Fueling Ambition was designed to make sure even the kids without sponsors can …

Christmas Letter

A letter from my friend and spiritual mentor Bishop Philip Wright of Belize. I hope it blesses you the way it has blessed me.

From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that …

Lighting Fires

An open letter to all:

William Butler Yeats once said, “an education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” At PathLight we couldn’t agree more.

PathLight helps children in rural Belize receive an education. When you join us as a donor, a volunteer, a prayer partner or all of these, you are lighting the fire of a child’s passion and potential for the rest of their lives. And as people of faith, these PathLight students are taking the fire and changing lives.

Rubi (pictured) is a great example. With PathLight’s help Rubi graduated from …

God Sneezed, It Went Viral

My friend Pete Greig is the visionary leader of 24-7 Prayer. He visited this past summer and Mark Parcher and I talked with Pete about the importance of global prayer. The three videos below are (slightly) edited versions of our conversation. It was filmed in our back yard, basically done in one take, and isn’t meant to be a fancy video presentation. It’s just the sharing of stories of how God can sneeze and, beyond our wild expectations, something goes viral. Hope you enjoy them.

As a follow-up, D’Aun and I had dinner with Pete and his wife Sammy …

PathLight Students Rule!

One of the fun parts of summer is seeing new students added to the PathLight family. I’m excited to hear the Belize staff selected 12 exceptional students for the Sponsorship+ Program. Nine girls and three boys will begin high school in the Fall, and we have very high hopes for them.

This high school class of 2018 have ambitions to become teachers, doctors, lawyers, scientists, and business managers. Our job at PathLight is to help them achieve these goals while fully developing their spiritual lives. To paraphrase Teddy Roosevelt, raising up young men and women with great skills but …

Congratulations Rubi, the Latest PathLight Valedictorian!

Greetings from Belize. I’m here to attend the graduation ceremonies for the PathLight students, but most importantly you need to read about Rubi. She is an amazing young woman and we are proud to have her in the program.

Rubi continues the tradition of a PathLight student being at the top of the class academically. She is this year’s Valedictorian at Belmopan Baptist High School, which is one of the schools PathLight works with. Top academic honors is an amazing accomplishment for a young woman from the rural area of Belize, one of the poorest in all of Central America. …