Passion for Paraguay

Day two Sept 2 st :  My two teenagers are happy, Its Friday. Usually Fridays are happy days for Mark and Nicole. They know they will sleep in tomorrow. Nancy and I will be in a quincieaniera rehearsal this evening. I have been asked to speak at Camilas fifteenth  birthday. Camila’s parents, which happen to be our neighbors, asked us to speak at their daughters fifteenth birthday. As you know these birthdays are huge events in Paraguay and many parts of Latin America I will be jogging this afternoon and then prepare for the rehearsal. Anahi will spend most the afternoon doing homework. Nicole is very busy on Fridays. She is parta of a reading club in her school. She just started in a roller skating club. In the evening our church has a service for early teenagers which Nicole attends. She finishes very tired at about 9 pm I have been reading the book by Sam Walton, Made in America. I have enjoyed learning the options associates have in Wal-Mart’s profit sharing. It’...

Its been very busy over the past months for me as a husband, father of four and as someone in full time ministry. When I get a few minutes, I read, or when I travel to one of my Paraguayan locations, I read. I have been reading the book Made in America by Sam Walton . Most of us have walked into a Wal-Mart store and walked out happy with a deal we found. The story is inspiring to say the least. Wal-Mart was not a major chain back in the sixties. It took decades of hard work, risk and vision to build one of the largest retail stores in America. I am impressed with Sam's down to earth approach and eagerness to build something great as an ordinary person. Sam writes:  It is a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there. . . But I think more than anything it proves there is absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary working people can accomplish if they are given the opportunity and t...