Family Life during crises

By Kristiina and Markku Virkkila, Finland During lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, schools and daycare centers are closed and the whole family week schedule has to be reorganized. Parents are homeschooling their children with teachers’ help, entertaining their toddlers and also working online. Both …

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24 hours

By an anonymous colleague With your eyes still closed you try to reach out for the phone on the nightstand next to your bed. It’s only 5 am! Why would anyone ring at your door this early in the morning? While you sit on the …

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Are we prepared for this?

By René Houtman It is a strange feeling to write about the need to be prepared for violent situations as a Family in Missions as we are at this moment in the midst of a crisis (coronavirus) that is gripping the entire world. I don’t …

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His Kingdom come into our home

By Roberto Lucero Family is a design of God that started in Eden. It started with the first family and ends with the second coming of Christ where we will come to our Father’s house to celebrate a big wedding. It begins in a garden …

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Expectations Before a Life Together

By Fedde Ypma  “After our marriage I had about three years of mourning, because of unmet expectations. It took years to readjust my expectations,” said William, who thought that married life would be heaven on earth. His wife would just do what his mother and …

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Same kitchen, different pots

By Laura Mihaly If you come into our kitchen you will find my husband cooking. That’s his new thing! He learns something new every year and is now doing a three-month course on nutrition. He confessed that he has three new ministry ideas in his …

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Expectations after 37 years of marriage

By Christine Schubert Like everyone else we had huge expectations when we began the adventure of joining our lives 37 years ago. We also had our share of disappointments in the following years. Seasoned Marriage  Do we still struggle with frustrations of unfulfilled expectations? Well, …

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