I inhabited the sky that day. Jesus let me play with clouds, soar with eagles and race the wind. He showed me sights that multitudes dreamt of, many yearned for, but few realized. Clearly He cared enough to grant my deepest desires.
So why was I angry?
A few minutes before, I was cruising west, high in […]
Alex Bahati Okuonzi was born in Nyankunde, D.R. Congo in 1988. After he finished his high school education he wanted to study technology. In 2007, he went to Kenya where he spent four months learning English (he also speaks French, Swahili, and Lingala), so he could study IT at a university there.
The cost of attending the school […]
I button up the brown and pink flowered shirt on my daughter. I work fast before she squirms away to do busy toddler things. Wow. She looks just like Katie—my friend’s daughter, who wore this shirt a couple years ago, back when she was my daughter’s age.
My son, now 3, spent his first couple of […]
Due to refugee movement, tribal conflicts, and the activities of development organizations in South Sudan, there has been an increased demand for MAF services. MAF-Kenya, based in Nairobi, is ramping up its operations in Juba, South Sudan to meet the need. Recent flights in the area have resulted in 400 blind people receiving sight—thanks to […]
I’m the new girl again. After 10 years of living off the coast of Kalimantan, we have moved to the other side of Indonesia, to the province of Papua.
There is a steep learning curve––new stores to learn, new way of driving (the traffic lights go from red to yellow to green . . . still […]
Look up and you’ll see them, perched five to twenty-five meters above the jungle floor: the homes of the Korowai people of eastern Papua, Indonesia. Around 4,000 Korowai live in the trees, descending to gather food and hunt, but spending much of their lives above the jungle floor. They’ve built their homes up high out […]