Peer pressure is something that we have been told to stay away from for as long as I can remember. However, I have a friend named Harry who became a Christian about two months ago, and while he loves to talk about Christ with me, he has a hard time wanting to be in larger [...]
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. [...]
Tonight is the first dunking of one of our friends. I have a lot of different feelings going into the night, as we get closer and closer to the event. We met this friend about four months ago, and at first, all we saw was someone that was loud and only seemed to want attention [...]
Today marks my twenty-fifth week here. I can still remember walking off the airplane for the first time, as if it were yesterday. Time in this place is strange; it slips past so fast, but seems to move at a snail's pace all at the same time. But I thought I would take this chance [...]
Christmas away from home sounds like just a terrible oxymoron. We are taught old songs with such titles as “I'll be home for Christmas” and we grow to assume this will always be true. However, for the first time in my life, I spent December 25th not just away from home, but away from everything [...]
Sometimes it can feel like you are just banging your head against the wall. Other times, you can just do no wrong. These two stories are about the former, then the latter, and then the former again. For the last three months, our team has been plowing away, working hard, and doing what the Lord [...]
Sitting in the restaurant that we have dubbed “Cheers” thanks to the excessive number of times the owners have clanked glasses with the foreigners (us), Acorn and I were sitting down to dinner with our friend Dragon. It was as if Dragon was simply waiting for dinner to start so that he could jump into [...]
Sitting on concrete bleachers at 8:30am, I exhale heavy to see my breath – it is cold, colder than I expected for wearing sandals (this was a tactical mistake). The track and field events begin, my friend will be running the 3km race later. I have not seen him yet. All of the students around [...]
Walking through the streets at 8:00am – looking for my favorite breakfast vender, still groggy, still tired – I cannot find him. I am on the phone, and my focus is not fully on breakfast anyway, so I continue to walk down a side street – something catches my eye, a child with colorful clothes [...]
Surprise, surprise. Acorn and I invited a friend over that we had only met once before over to our home, and hoped to have a chance to deepen the relationship, and start the process of talking about the things of God. However, other plans were in the works for our friend and us. Sitting on [...]
