Kintsugi and My Life

The Japanese have this beautiful thing built into their culture called kintsugi. When a piece of pottery breaks, instead of throwing it out, the piece is put back together and the cracks are filled with lacquer and gold. The flaw is seen as part of the object’s...

Fun In Capiibury

This past week was wonderful. We ended up going on an outreach with our YWAM staff to a place called Capiibary. It is one of the cities we’re focusing on right now. There were so many good things that one couldn’t possibly share them all. Here are a few...

Peace & Blessings

Here is your weekly dose of “Catching Up with the Castillos,” a list of what we’ve been up to or will be doing soon.   What We’ve Been Enjoying We decided to take a bit of a road trip this week as we celebrated Kalena’s 11th birthday.  A very generous friend had...

Catching Up With The Castillos

Last week, after spending 3 hours meeting with our Paraguay team over Zoom, we decided that we should just go and visit them.  Like us, the team has been in quarantine on the YWAM base in Kansas City, Missouri.   Our team from Paraguay had been doing an internship in...

Castillo Chronicles Fishin Stories

Every week at church we ask the same three questions: How did you do following Jesus? How did you do fishing for Jesus? And How did you do teaching others to follow and fish? Sometimes we have plenty of “fishing tales” and sometimes there’s nothing but awkward silence...