Tag: Ethnos360

When we travel to other countries and are confronted by unimaginable realities there of suffering, poverty and spiritual need, our hearts are moved with compassion. And while compassion is a reasonable beginning, is compassion alone enough? For the recent young widow raising two children, her finances barely enough to make frayed ends meet, is giving […]

 Of the people around me, two groups stood out. There were people I could communicate with, and those I couldn’t. While it was pure delight to get to know the missionaries serving within West Africa, it was evident that I would never get beyond “How are you? Did you sleep well?” with the Africans who […]

  What we saw: Senegalese hospitality was an amazing thing to witness and experience! I think we could learn a lot in that arena. Believers who so deeply loved and appreciated the church, weren’t taken up with finding fault in the church. The high price that some of our missionaries are willing to pay in […]

Don’t you love it when you place a call to a business or an 800 number and you get an automated call-center robot that begins with “Please listen carefully to the following as our menu options have changed” and then it steps you thru menu after menu, only to learn that they don’t offer the […]

    Do you see these two lovely pictures? The one with 6 nice ellipses is what the vowels looked like in a language we did a recent Acoustic Phonetics class project on. The other one where it’s all a mess? That’s what vowels in My Language look like. Even if you have no idea […]

July 18, 2018 Hanging lights, singing carols, going to neighbors’ houses with armfuls of food, feeling that early morning chill… What?  It’s July?  Maybe I better explain.  Last week our power was out for almost a week.  The early morning chill was the cold showers I had from the water heater booster not working, and the […]