Tonight I will have dinner with Acorn and two friends. They will come back over to our house for a chat and some tea. Nothing that would seem too out of the normal for me over the last six months and change. However, there is going to be one specific topic that will differentiate tonight. [...]
The basketball ball was caught on top of the rim. Stuck right there. Everyone just looked at it, and then I burst out laughing. I was at a university in another nearby city, hanging out with some teammates and local friends. One of the friends, Bob, is from the city where we live and is [...]
We just had our first dunking this week! As you may remember, one of my friends was leaving to go to the capital city for a long time. Well, before she left, we got to dunk her! It was an amazing time of songs and talking to Father. She and her friend got off safely, [...]
It was our first meeting after the month long holiday where students go home to celebrate the New Year with their families. It had been a casual time of sharing together about our experiences of the last month. After a while we broke up into small groups to share and pray together about the coming [...]
I've been reading the book of Daniel. In this book you have Mr. Nebuchadnezzar. I will call him Ned, because Neb would sound weird. Ned has a freaky dream and asks all the wizards to tell him what happened in his dream and what it means. The wizards, of course, can't do it which makes [...]
From the beginning of my time here I have been asking God for key people to come in to the family, movers and shakers. In other words, people of influence that will grow deeply in their relationship with the Lord and in leadership. God has faithfully given me such a person, and his name is [...]
We sat around the room, each praying for individual friends that God put on our hearts. He was moving and we could feel Him with us. It started off just like every other Monday. The whole team came over for Church in the morning, lunch at Mamma's (our favorite restraunt) and hang out time back [...]
“We’re going to make jiaozi (dumplings) for lunch!” Luky announced when we arrived at her family’s home on Friday. She remembered that it was my favorite. It was my first time to prepare them, and even though it was not difficult to learn, I think you could tell the difference between mine and theirs. But [...]
If you ever have the chance to go to southern Asia in the winter you should take it without thinking a second. You know that time of year when the snow is starting to get old, having the fireplace on is more out of necessity then a luxury and your starting to daydream about being [...]
7:20pm ….8:00…9:10…10:20… 11:40…1:00am….2:20…only 7 hours had passed and still 31more hours to go. Time ticked so slowly as I tried to find a comfortable position on my hard seat with my backpack tucked tightly under my legs. So I familiarized myself with the faces of two worn-out migrant workers staring back at me and a [...]