Justice: On Bikes and Bullies

March 14, 2012

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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When The Guy Proposes on the First Date {Guest Post and Book Giveaway!}

March 9, 2012

The following guest post is by YWAM missionary in South Africa, Chris Lautsbaugh. At the end of the post, see how you can win a copy of his newest book, Death of the Modern Superhero. He has agreed to give away at least 20 books {maybe more, depending on participation!}. You can read more about [...]

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Write Me a Caption

March 8, 2012

I saw this truck the other day in traffic and thankfully grabbed Matt’s phone in enough time to snap a picture of it through the front windshield. I mean, seriously.  Right? So, here’s your chance to write, and laugh, a little on this blog. Look at the picture and write a caption for it. Anything [...]

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Stressed-Out Missionary

March 4, 2012

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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Resolution-Fail

February 29, 2012

I had high hopes in January. I was going to exercise four times a week, and my husband and I even made a little line graph and taped it to the wall right above the scale. It was going to be a steadily downward line, of course, with little dots and the connecting lines that [...]

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Amy in Africa {Meet a Missionary in Uganda}

February 24, 2012

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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Putting Things in Perspective, With a Chair or Two

February 23, 2012
Putting Things in Perspective, With a Chair or Two

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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Two Missionaries Walked Up To a Coffee Bar . . .

February 21, 2012
Two Missionaries Walked Up To Some Free Coffee . . .

The following is a typical conversation I have found myself in more times than I can count during my {short} two years on the “mission field.” And, yes, some of it is a tad-exaggerated {emphasis on the words some and tad}. ********************** When Missionaries Meet Setting.  It’s a sweltering-hot day in the tropics. New Missionary and Better Missionary find [...]

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Swimming Upstream, Again

February 18, 2012

I wrote the following post about struggling a year and a half ago, and I returned to it this week. Because, honestly, it’s been one of  those– when the computer virus infected all of our websites, when the details of launching a new site caused late nights, when it became official that some of our [...]

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I Do, Still. STILL.

February 12, 2012

In honor of all the hearts floating around these days, I am re-posting a piece I wrote about eight months ago. We were just returning to Asia after a glorious six weeks in the U.S. with family and friends, good bread and better coffee, and I was wrestling with what love looks like, in a [...]

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Eating Local

February 9, 2012
Eating Local

One of the benefits of living in Asia is all the hole-in-the-wall restaurants that serve entire meals for a dollar a plate. Honestly, it takes about the same amount of money to fix a Western meal as it does to buy a Thai one. Now, if I really had it together, I would cook Thai [...]

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