The Wrong Word

July 31, 2014

I’m not going to lie; July was packed. I hesitate to use the word “busy” because I think I use it a lot, and it usually implies duty and a bit of negativity. Payton says that when I use “busy,” I’m usually worried (usually true!) or I don’t like that I’m required to do all […]

A Living Book

February 3, 2014

Things had just started to feel routine here and then, unexpectedly, a dear friend from church went home to be with the Lord late one Saturday afternoon. It’s been three weeks since Al left us all to be in eternity. He was only 61 and we all knew him really well as he’d been at […]

Webfast Wacktivities

October 10, 2013

What do you do when there’s no google? I’m sure everyone responds differently, but I took an awful lot of picture of bugs. I don’t know if was because of the webfast or coincidence, but we ended up doing some other odd stuff this past month too. Here’s a few:We kept finding stick bugs–this one […]

A Hasty Decision

September 9, 2013

We’re going to be doing a webfast for the next month! The whole first semester class is doing it, and we didn’t get this opportunity our first semester since it hadn’t been introduced yet. Our friends in CP1 wrote good blog posts about it, so I’ll let them do the explaining! Check out the Miller’s […]

I Can Plumb and Read!

September 8, 2013

Our training here in Missouri is all about us getting involved and engaged with the world around us. They figure if we’re not doing it now, why would we assume it’s going to happen instantly when we cross over an ocean or a continent! Our training is comprehensive in that it is designed to force […]

People Part II, Community?!

September 1, 2013

Okay, so maybe you’ve heard the buzzword “community” one too many times, or maybe it sounds cult-ish, conjuring up ideas of hippies living in communes with a lot of smoke and a general lack of hygiene. It’s pretty new concept for me–community, that is, not the lack of hygiene! We got a tinsy taste of […]

What Denver Taught Me

July 24, 2013

I’m struggling because I want to tell you everything–all of the sights, smells, sounds, and turmoil. There’s not time or space for that, neither is there time for a chronological recounting of each day. If you give me the better part of an hour and a cup of tea, I’ll gladly give you the highlights […]

And then there was VBS

July 6, 2013

VBS is a big week for our church. It takes hours of planning and hard work. I loved praying with about five women every morning before it started as we looked forward to what God would do that day! The kids hear truth all week and God always seems to be vividly at work as […]

Rotten Ceilings

June 6, 2013

If you know my family at all, you know they’re fixer-uppers. I think I’ve been a part of at least 4-5 house guttings through my teenage years and into my 20’s, two of those houses being ones we actually lived in. I can’t forget learning how to solder copper plumbing with my dad, which also […]

Pick-a-Field

March 19, 2013

A day or two before the official missions conference started, our small group jokingly contemplated putting up a “Fortunes Told Here” booth to help students decide where they should go overseas. Even jokingly, the whole idea may seem a bit offensive, but I will tell you after spending two days hearing from representatives from all […]