About Me

Cross of the Third Millennium, Millennium Cross, Coquimbo, Chile, missionary, silver sunset

In Real Time in Chile: A lot has happened since I last checked in here! My husband and I made a ministry trip to Paysandu, Uruguay in June; I came down with a bad cold along the way and then received the unexpected news that my elderly mother had passed away back in Maine. So, much as I dreaded the long trek, I left Uruguay early and traveled home for Mom’s graveside service. At least, the trip gifted me time with my siblings and oldest daughter as well as a taste of summer in Maine, a lobster roll on the coast, and Fourth of July fireworks over the lake. A few days after arriving back in Chile, we experienced the winter “storm of the century” here in the Region of Coquimbo–floods, landslides, high winds–and are still recuperating. I hope to be able share more about Legacy of the Linnenbrink Light (the third installment of the Desert Island Diaries series) before long.

Diana Delacruz is the pen name of a current global worker in Coquimbo, Chile, where she has finally mastered the art of making great fried fish! Her debut novel, Destiny at Dolphin Bay, draws on the love/hate experience of her first term of service in Chiloé, Chile’s southern islands. After more than 40 years of South American life and ministry, she knows the settings of her novels well and discovers her plots on the evening news.

Diana grew up in the state of Maine–not far from Bar Harbor–and has never lived more than an hour or two distant from the ocean. She and her Canadian husband recently concluded two decades of mission administration and Bible institute responsibilities in the capital of Santiago and moved back to the Chilean coast to lead a new church planting project. They have two grown daughters and five grandchildren living in the US. A third daughter returned “home” to southern Chile a couple of years ago.

Besides teaching, speaking, and writing in and about Chile, Diana collects tins–as well as stories, sea glass, and all things sea blue!

“A good word makes the heart glad.” –Proverbs 12:25

The mission of Seaglass Sagas is:

  • To please my Lord Jesus Christ and give Him joy
  • To offer “joy to the world” through inspiring, entertaining, and challenging readers
  • And to “finish my course (career, job, ministry, book, etc.) with joy” (Acts 20:24).