I watched her tonight out at the orphanage. A five-year-old body and a twenty-something-soul, though the age on her legal papers claims ten. She ran out, clutching a blue worn bear. It was the quality of stuffed animals handed over at a fair after winning a 50- cent game of darts. But, she doesn’t care, because it is hers. And an older girl takes it away. [...]
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“I’m giving such a gift of service today,” I nobly thought to myself as I scurried around scraping jelly off chairs and kicking goldfish crackers back under the couch where they belonged. With three small children, hosting anyone for anything is quite the chore, and today we were set to have a family of six [...]
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I am finishing up the account of a Chinese Christian, Brother Yun, whose story of faith under intense torture and persecution by his own government during the 90′s is riveting. Yun was a house church leader and refused to denounce his belief in Jesus and would not give over the names of other leaders in the Chinese underground [...]
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I wanted to post the video that Matt showed today in church before the sermon. He was able to share about our journey to Thailand and about what it means to really serve those around us like Jesus asks. On the tail end of a hard and busy week, the fact that he was able to [...]
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“I have two daughters. I would do anything to protect them, anything. And I can’t imagine being powerless to do that, as a father. And I would just hope that if there was another man who could help them, I would hope and pray that he would come.” –My husband Matt in a meeting this [...]
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A Church in Texas ran a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News. Big black letters, boldly declaring an apology. No excuses, no requests for money. Just an admission and a plea for forgiveness. In the last two years, this particular church has started to mean what they say by radically impacting their community and [...]
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“Perhaps many dreams have been fulfilled–a move to a larger house, to vice president, to a condo after the kids have finally moved out–but the soul has become like a boarded-up discount store in an empty parking lot with weeds rising up out of the pavement cracks.” -David Goetz, Death by Suburb “And what do [...]
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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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