Glocal Ventures

On particular days like today, it’s not about the smiles, rather digging deep into some harder issues that the children deal with daily…

The students came from miles around the school to see the computers and the lab we set up…

Altera is team made up of people in their mid-20’s from NorthWood Church. They raised money to donate a computer lab to a school in Lao Cai province, northwestern Vietnam and are currently there to install it. Team leader Donnie Featherston writes:
“Honestly, in this case, I think pictures work much better than words. So, there [...]

Five days in Vietnam may not seem like a significant amount of time in a
country outside of the US.  Since I have been here, I have already
encountered numerous sights, smells, people, and sounds that remind me of
the reasons I fell in love with this country in the first place.  I arrived
around midnight a week ago, and settled [...]

Last Christmas there was a stampede in Wal-mart. Over stuff. The murder of innocent people in Mumbai because they choose to wear a yarmulke. The guy in Starbucks who started yelling this morning when the barista forgot to add
whip cream to his Espresso Truffle drink.
A British rabbi quotes Kierkegaard in his book “To Heal a Fractured [...]

We have all ages and backgrounds, young and older married couples, singles, fathers, mothers, and hopefully kids visiting Vietnam soon. And once someone goes, they are hooked!