soul food
Have you ever been to “Back to School Night,” where you sit in those little plastic chairs while your child’s teacher talks about the curriculum for the coming year? ”Back to School Night” was never my favorite. Would you like to know why? Please join me on Teresa Shields Parker’s website to read the rest of the story. [...]
Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. Isaiah 58:8 I remember when the phone stopped ringing. My husband and I, lifelong entrepreneurs, had launched a new business that initially took [...]
In the 10+ years I’ve been sponsoring Eliya, he has written me dozens of letters. I’ve now been blessed to meet him two times, and yet there are big gaps in what I know about him. Language and culture barriers; the fact that he is a child and I’m an adult, all play a part. [...]
Dear Dad, How are you? I am fine. Not really. I’m not really fine. I had a scary dream last night, a nightmare, actually. I can’t stop thinking about it. In my dream, there was a little girl that somehow I was responsible for, and she fell into a hole. I was desperate to save [...]
Wess Stafford and the Compassion staff recently welcomed former Compassion President, Wally Erickson and his wife Mary, to the Global Ministry Center. Reverend Wallace (Wally) Erickson was Compassion’s third president in 1975, having served the organization for eight years prior to that. During Wally’s term as president, the number of sponsored children went from 25,000 to more [...]
(Still have a few odds and ends I want to share about the Southview mission trip to Rwanda) Mzungu, a Swahili word which literally means “one who roams around aimlessly,” is what East Africans call foreigners, specifically white people. The proper plural of mzungu is “wazungu,” but in Rwanda, where Swahili is not commonly spoken, [...]
Cathedral Ruhengeri Student Center is an Anglican-affiliated project in Musanze, a prosperous and fast-growing town that serves as a launching place for gorilla safaris. Musanze is in Shyira Diocese, which was the diocese of one of my heroes, Bishop John Rucyahana (before he retired), the author of The Bishop of Rwanda–Finding Forgiveness in a Pile of Bones. He [...]
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