Author Archives: matea watts

It’s really crazy to think that this week would be our mid-term. If life was continuing like normal, we would be at a conference in Spain for our mission agency right now – hanging out on the beach and catching up on a week of schoolwork. Due to COVID-19 though, we are both back inContinue reading “The Straight Path”

This old hymn came from a man named Horatio G. Spattord, and he was no stranger to sadness, confusion and endless questions. Horatio had a family, a wife and five children. Unfortunately, in 1871, one of his sons died of pneumonia, and then, later on in that year, he lost a lot of his businessContinue reading “It Is Well With My Soul”

Our families (Sunds and Watts) go quite often together on “family” vacations. The first vacation that we have been on together (that wasn’t a Serge conference) was a Tanzania vacation. We go many times, we drive to the same place, at a nice beach in the middle of nowhere. It is a gorgeous place whereContinue reading “Vacations, SWATT team style”

“So, where are you from?” oh boy. here we go again. As a Third Culture Kid, this is one of the worst possible questions to be asked. It makes our stomachs sink as we stand there gaping like a fish, trying to come up with a simple answer. For most people it’s not exactly rocketContinue reading “Where did we come from? Where did we go?”