A three year old and his mother sat next to me from Houston to San Salvador. This very cute kid said, “hi!” to everyone who passed by. He also said, “hi!” to me about 1,000 times during our 3-hour flight. His Batman shirt was the hit of gate waiting area. He was a handful for his mom—struggled with take-off, didn’t like the food, cried from time to time.
While waiting in line for our passports to be verified, I met a family with Canadian citizenship. They were traveling back to their homeland to celebrate a cousin’s La Quinceañera. The daughter knew of World Vision’s work through the band Starfield.
My SuperShuttle driver was named Nimrod. He moved from Haiti to the United States 16 years ago. He lost family in the recent earthquake.
Today was a travel day. We leave our hotel at 6:30 tomorrow morning for a long drive to see the work of World Vision.
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Steve Quant of World Vision waiting to have his passport verified
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Waiting for our ride to the hotel
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World Vision’s shuttle van
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Mark Whitlock is a life-long communicator who loves to connect life-changing content with creative presentation.
Mark began communicating through broadcasting. He cut his teeth as a stringer reporter for an NPR affiliate. He spent a year of early mornings behind the microphone as the morning drive announcer for WMSL-FM89. After college, Mark headed to the Front Range of Colorado and worked with Focus on the Family’s daily broadcast team. In 1992, he moved his family to Little Rock, Ark. When he helped launch “FamilyLife Today.” Mark served as the engineer and producer for the daily radio program “FamilyLife Today” for five years. Mark became the acquisitions editor for FamilyLife Publishing in 1998. He has been responsible for and contributed as an author to more than ten FamilyLife resources including Passport to Purity, Jonah: A Very Veggie Family Adventure (published in cooperation with Big Idea), and the amazon.com best-seller Simply Romantic® Nights.
In 2004, Mark joined Thomas Nelson Publishers as a ministry consultant where he helped ministries in the Eastern U.S. with strategic planning, donor development, product development, author relations, and custom publishing. He helped sign two authors with the company. In December 2005, Mark became a Senior Acquisitions Editor in the Bible Group on working on reference titles. Mark’s job was to help the Bible come alive through creativity, understanding, and application. Mark has written several Bible studies for 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Mark served as the Creative Director for GSF Media, a Nashville-based agency concentrating on radio—compelling programming, effective advertising, and life-changing fundraising. He traveled to great radio stations and networks across the country on behalf of the children of World Vision, one of the largest non-profit organizations in the U.S. recruiting more 13,000 child sponsors in the process.
He hopes to finish his first of many novels, The Ledgers, before he loses the rest of his hair.
Mark and his wife Kaye celebrated 20 years of marriage in 2010. They live and laugh with Michael (16), Lauren (13), Meileah (8), and their two dogs in Franklin, Tennessee. Their oldest, Elisa, is doing great in college.
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I´m glad that you are in my country El Salvador, I found this blog via Twitter, my cousin works with World Vision she is salvadoran too but now is living in Canada, maybe you know about her. Her name´s Betty Araniva.
Espero que les guste El Salvador