Hold fast to dreams
Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a broken winged birdThat cannot flyMany years ago (decades ago) this poem by Langston Hughes moved me. I even needlepointed it on a pillow. (My first and last attempt at needlepointing.) Yesterday, the poem...
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"I want to play with the kids but I don't speak Spanish.""I am so frustrated by the language barrier.""I don't know how I can contribute since I don't speak the language."This is how the beginning of mission weeks often begin. The team members are flustered by...
Colvins in Bandung
If our kids are looking more colorful than usual, it is because they’re wearing batik to their first Indonesian worship service. It has been a mixed visit so far. For me, a fruitful week of ministry. For Sora and the kids, a painful time fighting the sort of digestive tract illness that we thought we […]
That one time we made a volleyball court in block HH
That one time we made a volleyball court in block HH
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.