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The woman was small, with soft, wrinkled skin browned by decades of being tanned by the Nicaraguan sun. She had seen us walking around her nei...
When the trunk of a banana tree is chopped off, the rings form a pattern of intricately constructed cells circling around each other in a spiral of ...
On the very last day of ministry in the DR, we went to the most materially poor community I have seen while on the Race. On the side of a hill...
I was supposed to go to the beach this morning to watch the sunrise with squadmates. But I’m here instead watching a woodpecker bore a hole in...
As our time together comes to a close, my memory skims the wavering dark surface of the things that you have taught me. I came to you shivering from...
“You will never understand what we go through. Yes, there are problems where you come from, but you will never understand what it is like to b...
The rain drops bounced off tin roofs, joined their brothers in sudsy mud puddles, and stained our clothing grey with dampness. All green things rejo...
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have you loved us?” (Malachi 1:2) Isn’t this how it normally goes...
In the Wizard of Oz, the inhabitants of the Emerald city wear green-colored glasses. This way, no matter what shade of brown or grey their city actu...
Missions is not the purpose of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ul...
