Downtown Office Building. Can you find me in the picture above? How many times?   Hey folks, I leaving tomorrow early in the AM for Morocco. I will be traveling with some friends for 10 days, exploring some connections for the Mosaics project and just learning more of whatContinue Reading

Arabic Class, originally uploaded by papalars. This afternoon, I stopped by to visit my Arabic language teacher. Wow, what a wonderful time together. We went a step deeper in building our friendship and sharing our hearts, some jokes, but most of all our faith. You all should know, by theContinue Reading

Guapo, originally uploaded by papalars. Here is the more to come that I promised about Fabio and the Esparcidos project. The "Esparcidos Project" is an intentional effort by the Covenant in Spain to respond to the huge demographic reality of the Latin American immigrants who are literally flooding into thisContinue Reading

My creation, originally uploaded by papalars. I mentioned I´d tell a story about Fabio. Well, here is a teaser that I will fill in later. Need to hit the hay and get ready for Carol to come home. Maybe do a little more cleaning than Erick and I have grownContinue Reading

Here is another one of my new friends. His name is Miguel and he is from Argentina. I first met Miguel in October of 2005 when I came to Barcelona for a conference on our focus friends. The topic of that conference was addressing the many aspects of Maghrebi assimilationContinue Reading