What is it that causes a 19 year old girl to pack up everything and move to South Africa? Or a young woman to move to Uganda to be a Kindergarten teacher, only to have God move her to start an orphan child sponsorship program? Or a man who when visiting South Korea was heart [...]
I have felt so helpless lately. It started a while ago seeing images of precious people living on nothing just trying to get by.
It came roaring at me two weeks ago with the earthquake in Haiti. The images of poverty stricken, broken people floated before my eyes. I didn’t close the websites or stop reading [...]
In the light of tragedies we always seem to understand just how blessed we are by God. My heart has been exceptionally thankful lately. Last night we had a tremendous storm here in Phoenix. We got an inch of rain over night. As I got ready for bed I listened to the downpour that was [...]
When I logged onto my computer at work this morning I read this headline for this story on the BBC feed I use Haiti Quake Toll May Be 200,000. My heart just breaks. It cries out for God’s mercy.
Last night I was praying for our little girl Nikita in India, and the people in Haiti. [...]
Today we are all reeling from the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Thanks to technology images float in front of our eyes of the hurt, dead, and demolished.
The country and her people obviously need prayer and financial support. Their lives have been stripped of the little they had to absolute nothingness. I started thinking how exactly [...]
A few thoughts on my prayer to live more missionally this year.
Probably about two years ago Shawn and I started learning about Missiology and living missionally. It was a new concept for the both of us. In a nut shell, missional living means you live as a missionary to the community you live and work [...]
I had insomnia last night and decided to perpetuate it even more and thought of goals I’d like to accomplish, get closer to in 2010. I don’t care for resolutions. I think that is just setting yourself up for failure. I also don’t think I like goals. To me it sounds like it is me [...]
In April my husband turned me onto Anne Jackson’s blog, Flowerdust. I instantly fell in love with her. She is a phenomenal woman and has a passion for God and people. She inspires me as a speaker, writer, etc. Brad Ruggles made over her site and it premiered tonight. I was pleasantly surprised to see [...]
Yesterday, for the second day in a row, my wonderful husband worked a 12 hour shift. This isn’t normal for him but the pastor of the church he works at is on a deadline to get his latest book to print and Shawn needed to get some time with him for the graphic design [...]
The end of April Shawn and I sponsored a little girl in India. It is something we’d talked about doing, but never actually took the steps until we read the blog postings by the Compassion Bloggers that were in India at that time. I prayed that God would give us the girl that he wanted [...]
