Ever heard of declaring a last-minute staycation for your family? Especially when you all really need a holiday, but can’t necessarily afford to travel to some exotic-somewhere? I had never heard the term before last week when my friend listened to me whining about how we needed to take a break but didn’t have the [...]
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I’m not going to lie– my idea of missions has had an extreme makeover during the last several years. I pushed off shore thinking I knew so much about loving-well and Jesus-following in another culture, but I continue to learn that I probably know-wrong more than I know-right. And this can be very disheartening for [...]
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Two years ago, today on April 1, our family was on an airplane moving to Thailand. I don’t remember much about the plane ride except that it was long, and that I was really thankful the kids watched the movies on the seat-back screens. I remember being so excited and so hopeful and so very nervous. [...]
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I read a lot of missionary blogs. When someone comments from Peru or Vietnam or Sudan, I click, and I read. Because the world fascinates me. It is a big, beautiful place, and God is doing amazing things on all corners of it. Absolutely. But, as I have read missionary blogs, and as I have [...]
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Chris and Lindsey Lautsbaugh live in Muizenberg, South Africa. They serve with Youth With a Mission (YWAM), teaching and training internationals to be missionaries and church leaders. As leaders on the campus, they steward and guide ministries in and around Cape Town, reaching out to under privileged communities, planting churches, and meeting needs associated with [...]
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I wrote last week about justice and shared a story I told my kids, over green tea in little cups at a local coffee shop. I wrote about how Matt and I expected our three little ones to be people who stand up for the person without power, to fight for the powerless kid who [...]
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Today we are continuing a semi-regular section on the blog featuring interviews with missionaries on the field, and we are talking with Angie Washington who serves and blogs from Bolivia. Angie is a consistently seasoned voice on this blog’s comment thread {she’s lived overseas for 10years}, and her own site, The @nge, gives an honest [...]
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We have a special needs boy who lives in our neighborhood. His name is Jacob, and he rides his bike right in front of our house some mornings by 6:30. He’s got one of the biggest smiles I’ve ever seen, and friendship with him has been a gift to our entire family. And two weeks [...]
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Our first year overseas was by far the most stressful year of our entire lives. We yelled more, and we got in more fights. We irrationally loathed all-things-Asian, and the mere sound of the Thai language would make our skin crawl at times. We cried after a trip to get groceries, and we cussed after [...]
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I am running a new occasional feature on the blog that highlights other ministries or missionaries I hear about, rub shoulders with, feel inspired by, or bump into in the blogworld. I have a hunch that most of you reading are genuinely interested in living and working overseas, and I’d love for you to get [...]
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Sometimes, we all need a healthy dose of reality– {Subscribers will need to click through to the site to see the video, featuring Rob Bell.} ****************** Related Posts: The River of Human Trafficking. We Were Wrong {Orphan Care}. Nights.
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ALifeOverseas.com / LauraParkerBlog.com.
My family is living overseas in Thailand, where my husband is directing a Christian Humanitarian Foundation. This blog is the honest recording of our journey– squatty potties and all. 
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