Ladies basketball gets a little crazy…
As I bent low to catch a pass, I felt searing pain in my left pinky. Fearing a sprain, I lifted my hand and cried out when I saw my finger sticking out at a sickening 90-degree angle. Thankfully my friend and fellow MAF’er Karen, who’s a nurse, was also […]
The Pipes – Not Glued and Full of Dirt
We had some plumbing work done at our house recently. As the foreman’s sledgehammer broke through the concrete outside to reveal the cause of our plumbing problems, we laughed and shook our heads in amazement. The pipes were not glued together – at all. Whole […]
I am finding since my arrival in Lesotho, I have been on a roller coaster ride of sorts. A ride, which I would label, “Cultural Perception.” For the first couple of months here I idolized the culture I came from. I compared everything I saw, tasted, heard and felt to what I deemed as normal […]
I should be used to going outside my comfort zone, I thought, as I grabbed my purse and my keys. I’ve raised support––speaking in front of crowds and befriending strangers. I’ve learned a language––blundering my way through many a stilted conversation. I’ve moved to an impoverished country––making it through culture shock. But as I left […]
A white and blue 737 screams onto the runway. After it has passed, a dark-skinned Papuan woman scurries across the asphalt, her colorful net bag swaying behind her. Probably not a scene you would see in America, right? Welcome to Wamena! A remote aviation town situated in a breathtaking valley at 5150 feet above sea […]
One of the privileges of ministering in Haiti is the opportunity to serve alongside people from so many different countries and cultures. For the past nine weeks, a group of Haitian, American, and Canadian-Korean young people have come to our house and studied Eph. 4, Rom. 12, and I Cor. 12 together. What motivates you […]