Kids club!
Kids club!
Jabulani is a large facility here in Sosh for orphans and…
Jabulani is a large facility here in Sosh for orphans and children at risk. Every week on Wednesday, we have a small group with the girls. Lately we have been working on Emotional Awareness. In this exercise, the girls had to identify a difficult emotion on one side of the paper plate and draw an emotion that they would typically use to hide that emotion on the other side.
Radio Show
Thanks to my friendship with Pastor Vic Bernales, I was introduced this afternoon to Rev. Michael Hong, the owner and proprietor of Mango Radio, which broadcasts evangelical radio programs in Zamboanga and here in Davao City. Pastor Hong has a heart for bringing the gospel to Muslims here on the island of Mindanao by using […]
Booster shot
I did another "Amandaism" as my friend (and scorekeeper of my blunders) Amy Hill says. I lost a week in May and thought today was May 30. So, Gloria showed up this morning, arms filled with groceries, to cook lunch for the arriving guests a week early!...
Metrics
I have seen several articles and references asking the question, "How do we know aid works?" There are books (e.g. Toxic Charity, When Helping Hurts) and numerous articles and studies on this. (Here is a recent one:...
Photos from March and April 2015
I’m feeling a bit remiss about blogging. We keep to our deadline for publishing our monthly newsletter, but it’s easy to forget to write on this blog, and that for two reasons, both of which are good for missionary work, but not for missionary communication: first, life in the Philippines feels more “normal” for us […]