It was a good thing I set my alarm…and even better that I packed last night. I was just finishing an email that needed to go out before I left when my ride knocked on my door. Ready or not…time to go.
Being a missionary kid comes with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. Advantages include an ability to walk between worlds and validate people’s perspectives and diversity. Advantages include a broader view of the world and a certain amount of self-sufficiency that contributes to success and independence. Advantages include an… Continue reading
It’s about time to try to summarize my trip to South Sudan using a few key pictures of some favorite moments. For a sermon I preached recently with more details about the processing of that trip, go here for the audio version or here for the manuscript.
During my senior year of high school I took a class called “Current World Issues.” We watched a lot of CNN. And the teacher tried to convince us to care about these news stories we researched and reported on each week. Unfortunately, in our teenage arrogance, we thought we knew… Continue reading
What follows is a series of entries about how I got to the point where I am getting ready for a 15 day trip to East Africa. I figured breaking it into installments would be better than expecting someone to read a novel. But be warned…it may still be a… Continue reading
I’m really excited to have a chance to go back to Africa this summer with a young adult from my congregation. Here’s an ‘interview’ we published in the church newsletter with the information: I had a chance to catch up with one of Advent’s young adults for a conversation about… Continue reading
I used to smirk at those commercials about some anti-depressant drug. You know, the one with the lady that walks with the cloud over her head, and while it is sunny all around her, the cloud turns dark and starts raining on her. The narrator says something about how depression… Continue reading