So they say that you need to look back to look ahead. Okay, well, I’ve actually never heard anybody say that. I just made it up because it sounded like a good introduction for a post about favorite posts from the past year. Though, really, I guess if you did that, you would just end [...]
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This week is going to be self-proclaimed “Human Trafficking Awareness Week” at aLifeOverseas.com . I have several posts coming your way about the issue of trafficking and modern day slavery, along with ways that you can {really} help. Be sure to stop back by and check it out. So perhaps you care deeply about social [...]
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The following video is one we took in the downtown tourist area in Chiang Mai, Thailand, several weeks ago. There happened to be a street preacher there that night, shouting Bible verses Navy-SEAL-style, in ENGLISH, while several people handed out literature to the tourists and locals passing by. And we walked away, trying to be [...]
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It’s hard to communicate what it’s like to live in an environment surrounded by stories of sexual abuse, human trafficking, and rampant prostitution. Thailand is seeped in the darkness of it, as are so many other countries around the globe. Just before we left for the States, in fact, Matt and I were sitting outside [...]
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Watch this short video my husband took a few weeks back from the local market close to our house in Doi Saket, Thailand. It will give you a frame of reference for my brief post following it . . . And, so, here’s the thing– despite the fact that we have small children, and despite [...]
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Throughout Thailand we witness the Abandoned. We see apartment complexes without inner walls looming above the city block, and we stumble upon entire resorts in rice fields that almost were. Because, like in so many countries, when the funding for a building project runs out, the building stops. And then the half-finished begins to decay [...]
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This week marks our second year in Chiang Mai, Thailand during the holiday of Songkran. Throughout the week, businesses are closed and a city-wide water fight ensues. Groups pile into the backs of trucks with trashcans full of water and water guns galore, and no one is safe or sacred– not the grandma on the [...]
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I’ll go ahead and ‘fess up– I love me some tankinis. Though I’ve got all kinds in my drawers, it’s become my suit of choice lately should the situation arise when I actually do have to wear one– farmer tan and don’t-work-out-enough-self and all {notice the chosen picture above does not contain me in aforementioned [...]
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And, now, for an admittedly heavier post {in conjunction with the upcoming Idea Camp: Orphan Care Conference}. The following is about human trafficking, child labor and how complicated these problems really are. Please know that I claim no ‘expert status’ on the issue . . . They walk the streets selling roses– flowers in the [...]
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The following post is part of the photography focus of the blog entitled Latitude 18. Matt took these several weeks ago during a final debrief week at Koh Phi Phi beach in Southern Thailand with our team of students. It seemed the perfect setting to finish up three months of ministry and begin to talk about [...]
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I am no Amazon-Woman. Mice make me jump up on chairs, and snakes make me scream like a, well, girl. And spiders– yeah, can’t say I like those too much, either. Which is why I wasn’t too disappointed when I couldn’t go with Matt and the team on a trek through the jungles of Northern [...]
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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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