Author: Seth and Rochelle Callahan

Still Alive

Still Alive

We are not dead. I know, it may have APPEARED like we had fallen off the face of the earth three months ago, when we began an unplanned, near-complete-cessation of public communications, but we DID NOT. No, the reasons for our silence were much less dramatic. Basically, when you boil down our litany of excuses, […]
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Outreaches, They Be Crazy

Outreaches, They Be Crazy

I mentioned off-hand in my last post that we are in the midst of doing Bible-teaching in another village these days. Upon proof-reading that post, Rochelle took the opportunity to encourage me in my writing endeavors: “Seth, you have written three consecutive posts explicitly referencing toilets, but you still haven’t managed to put two sentences together about our […]
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Jungle BnB

Jungle BnB

  We’re going to be taking a family vacation to Australia next year, so I was poking around the ol’ world-wide web yesterday, checking out a few AirBnB options in the town we’ll be travelling to. This was a first for me. Being extremely behind the times, AirBnB is one of those modern conveniences that […]
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Ain’t No Party Like A Callahan Party

Ain’t No Party Like A Callahan Party

[So, here’s the deal: I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago, but, due to the pitiful protestations of the last ragged vestiges of my feeble pride, I never published it. Since then, however, my pride seems to have given up any hope of reclaiming its former glory*, and I have decided to go […]
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The Sacrifices We Make

The Sacrifices We Make

I just had my first hot shower in three months. A little while later, I flushed the toilet, without having to dump water into the bowl with a bucket. I hadn’t done that for one month. Then I made a meal for my kids using bread that we didn’t have to bake ourselves and eggs […]
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Missional Misconception #2 – The CALL

Missional Misconception #2 – The CALL

In a separate post, we delved into some of the confusion surrounding missionary support figures – what they are, what they AREN’T, and how they work. It seemed to get reasonable feedback, so I thought we might try that approach again. Today’s post will follow a similar format, except THIS topic is more emotionally charged than the […]
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Awake, Oh Sleeper

Awake, Oh Sleeper

Not everyone knows this about me, but I have insomnia. It first started right about the time we arrived in PNG and began our language study in 2015, and it has been going strong ever since. Now, I know that correlation does not equal causation, but I am a Millennial, and have an inherent need […]
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The Sad Side of Success

The Sad Side of Success

I have been able to drop about 15 pounds since arriving back in our village a month and a half ago. Having spent a fair bit of time on the “husky” side of the scale lately, it’s been nice to finally see a bit of movement in this other, less blubbery, direction. I still have […]
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Missional Misconception #1 (Support Figures)

Missional Misconception #1 (Support Figures)

Support. If there was ever a word that was surrounded with misconception and confusion in the missional realm, it is that one. Anyone who has ever worked for a faith-based* mission organization has inevitably had more than their fair share of confusing conversations around this topic. (Example 1) Random Christian: “So, how much money do […]
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Meet Izzy

Meet Izzy

I was going to write about language-learning woes today, because that is where my mind is at these days. As I pondered my potential prose however, I was reminded of a post I did a while ago on that same subject. I went back and reread that other post and was impressed with how aptly […]
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