Well I reckon this is it. Right now, it’s 5:30AM. I’m in the sitting room warming up next to a blazing fire with my cup of Mzuzu coffee. The jeans I hope to wear to Nashville are laid out in front of the fire drying. In the distance I can hear the morning rooster roll [...]
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Ndapita
Posted in culture, family, Mission, tagged family, Friends, God, Goodbye, Malawi, Tears on July 12, 2011 | 6 Comments »
fewer and fewer blogs
Posted in family, Mission on July 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
over the past six months I have written fewer and fewer blogs. the time and experiences have touched me in such deep places, troubling me in ways that I can only hope is the Holy Spirit stirring within me but I can’t sort out the rhyme or reason. sometimes interactions make me so angry. sometimes [...]
well, that was embarrassing
Posted in culture, family, Mission, MUMC on June 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday morning as church ended, Pastor Kaunda told the congregation that next Sunday will be our family’s last Sunday at Galilea UMC. He invited me up to say a few words. When I got to the front and turned around to face the congregation no words would come. My eyes filled with tears and I [...]
A volunteer mission team of one has come and gone, we are in the midst of a staggered departure of the Belmont VIM team, two more teams arrive this week as well as the General Board of Global Ministries missionaries, Teddy and Sylvia Crum with their daughter Lily. In less than 3 weeks the conference [...]
Anything with Nothing
Posted in Mission, tagged God, Life, Malawi, Mother Teresa on June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.” –Mother Teresa
