The Bacons going to Timor

This is our final week in East Timor for 2011. It was a pretty rough journey at the start. We thank God for looking after us and for buildin...

Ok, I’m still stuck on this sweet little line I heard in the land of the rich:  “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man t...

This week we have had the privilege of Geoff, Graham and Nick visiting us from Darwin. They had two main aims for this 10 day trip: to impr...

Samuel is out of town, and has asked me to do a bit of a blog update for him.  He plans to return tomorrow night and will try to add a new u...

This week seems to have been the same monotonous run of work, keeping Timorese employed, supplying Bibles, fielding new requests, fixing th...

We saw the movie Rango the other day.  It was pirated, but that’s all they sell in the shops in this country.  I hope that this blog may en...

They say that Soibada was once planned to be the capital of East Timor. It is right in the heart of the country and is home to the nation...