By Elizabeth Uhles This sentence came out of my mouth earlier today: “Did Courtney just walk by with a dead kid in her arms?” Everyday we do hospital visits. We are supposed to go from room to room praying for people, except that last week Sarah and I made a friend (Isabel,) and we have … Continue reading Dead in a Nicaraguan Hospital
By Morgan McKeown The last few days have been filled with blessings and pain. As I sit at the computer at the internet caf in the city, I’m overwhelmed. It’s still a little odd to be back in civilization–back to beds, showers, toilets that flush. I’m still processing so much of what’s gone on in … Continue reading One Red Jacket: Blessings and Pain
By Megan Dunegan From Swaziland, Africa: one mother. five children. no father. and a disease that kills millions of people a year. I climbed into the backseat of our kombi after a long morning at the care point, expecting a semi-normal answer to the question, “How was your day today” When I turned to our … Continue reading Unlikely Gift: Raising a baby in Africa
By Shanelle Wenell As I sit here reading Mother Teresa, from a distant view it seems unattainable to become as humble in spirit as her, as willing to do the work of Christ as she. In my flesh I wonder to myself if her ways were absurd, even out of balance, unhealthy. Yet as I … Continue reading Mother Theresa: Giving like Jesus did
By Matt Snyder This past weekend Kim, Matt, Angie, Gretchen, and myself were blessed with the opportunity to live with the people of Canchamana for a few days. Initially I was rather hesitant and didn’t want to do it because I knew that I would be uncomfortable. We truly had no idea what we were … Continue reading Overwhelmed in Canchamana Peru
By Matt Snyder Chincha, Peru. Nate shared the story of Lazarus from John 11 with Daisy and talked with her about a relationship with Jesus. She was upset with the Lord for taking away her sister and leaving her nieces and nephews behind without a mother. Daisy wasn’t ready to forgive. Her cries echoed with … Continue reading The Adventure of Deliverance Ministry
By Jeff Goins, Editor My Sophomore year in college, five of us guys got together every Thursday night around 11pm and would just share what God was doing in our lives. The desire to do this was born out of the lack of true fellowship we were experiencing in large groups, mainly at the fault … Continue reading How You Start a Movement
By Scott Budzar The most impressionable moments in my life that leave me in a place of striving for humility and seeking to honor the words of our God in terms of “laboring for love and unity” have come from my wife and children. My eight year-old daughter wrote this poem below just a few … Continue reading Peace Is More Than Just a Difference
By Zihna Edwards In my kitchen, there lives a coffee cup that a friend gave me in college. Theres a crack running the side from one move or another, and it is unsuitable for drinking. But drink I do: gulps of great memories, sips of shared sorrows, and the aroma of a rich-roasted friendship. I … Continue reading Lent: A time of letting go and making room
By Mariah Secrest If you and I were to sit down to coffee together, you would quickly learn that my two loves (besides coffee, which makes three) are music and philosophy. File away the part about music for now; I’ll get back to it. For now I want to give a brief sketch of a … Continue reading Wasteful Love: Where Beauty and Social Justice Meet