Sao Paulo – Marvin Calderon

How I found lasting happiness by listening to my inner voice

By El Chino Family, Featured June 12, 2014

Happiness. Joy. These two words are synonymous yet differ quite drastically. Happiness can be transitive or fleeting. Joy is continuous happiness that accumulates over time. I felt both of these today. One of my church leaders wrote the following: "We must be sensitive to our spiritual bits. Even with the...

First days in Sao Paulo

By El Chino Brazil, Featured May 5, 2014

I sit back and lay on a hammock five floors up from the ground. It's midnight in Sao Paulo but it's 9pm at home. I talk with my family over Skype and I'm ecstatic about seeing their faces--especially the kids. My oldest nephew takes one look at the screen, smiles...