This past week he told stories from his last trip overseas–around a table and over sandwiches– that still-fresh ink crawling out from under his shirt sleeve. I’d heard the story several times before, but there was something about this telling that felt different, scarier to me. Maybe it was the natural responses from our friends. [...]
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Our family went rock collecting the other day. We drove to the local sand and gravel place and unloaded the kids in front of the river rock pile. And then we started picking up rocks– flat ones, red ones, oddly shaped-ones. It was Colorado-cold and our fingers started to hurt, but we dug and selected [...]
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I remember our first year on the fieldliterally thinking, “No one is ever,ever going to come to faith in Christ, no matter how many years I spend here.” I thought this because for the first time in my life, I was face-to-face with the realities that the story of Jesus was so completely other to the people I was living among.Buddhism [...]
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My husband says I’m the writer of the family, and that he’d rather just stick to the speaking-bit. And maybe he’s right. Because he rarely writes but every time he speaks publicly he brings people to cry tears or draw swords. The man seeps inspirational leadership. And these last two years, I’ve seen him endure [...]
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Five reasons you should buy this shirt, this weekend: 5. They look cool. And if you wear them, you will look cool, too. 4. They are conversation starters. People will be like, “What? What does that mean? What’s that abstract, but soveryneatlooking eye thing in the middle?” And you can be like, “Well, it’s from [...]
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I met a girl in a brothel named Sarah about eight months ago via covert camera footage. And while I’ve yet to speak in the flesh to this young woman, I know her story. Sarah’s home country in SE Asia is notorious for both government oppression and extreme poverty, and at the hands of her own [...]
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So I recently wrote about the awkward moments of living on support stateside– the guilt, the paranoia, the un-cool factor that works its way into the monthly newsletters. And, while all of that is true, I also wanted to talk about the positive ways living on financial support has affected me– at home and abroad. [...]
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So, we’ve been back in the States now for 5 months, and we’re still living on full financial support– which we did while living overseas, but somehow seems harder now that we’re back in the ol’ U.S. of A. (Notice our latest “prayer card family picture” above. Cool, but not as cool as the one [...]
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I know, that is the most boring title I could think of, too. Regardless, I’d love for you to take a minute to check out two things I’m excited have come together just this week. 1. First, for any of you who have been here with me any amount of time, you know that I [...]
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One of the problems with fundraising is that you feel like you are always fundraising. It’s like that neighbor selling her tupperware who seems to always be able to work your food-storage needs into conversations about the barking dogs across the street or the latest deals at “theWalmart.” And, so, forgive me for taking up [...]
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My husband has been into over 300 bars and brothels in SE Asia looking for victims of sexual exploitation, and the strange thing is, he’s re-learned the Gospel more powerfully in that setting than anything he’s ever experienced in a church building. Funny that he would find Jesus in a strip club. But he did, [...]
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My family has just returned from living overseas in SE Asia, where we were (and still are) involved in counter-human trafficking efforts. This blog is the honest recording of our journey– squatty potties and all. 
