entertaining angels: guest post on Splickety Magazine

entertaining angels (photo credit, Wikimedia Commons)

I am excited to be a contributing writer on Splickety Magazine’s Lightning Blog, an online “flash fiction” magazine.  If you like to read, but don’t have time, try reading Splickety’s stories, always 1,000 words or less. Please click on the link to read my contribution and be sure to leave a comment while you’re there [...]

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your light will break forth like the dawn

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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 [...]

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unique gifts from God

The "shanga kanga" necklace from shanga.org

UPDATE, Friday, November 23, 2012:  I am very sad to report that Shanga has decided to take down their online store.  I received the following message from Saskia Rechsteiner, the founder of Shanga: “Thank you so much for your support. Sadly we have not had a lot of sales thru our website and we have decided to close [...]

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update from Babette & Stephanie

Received this newsy update from Babette via email this afternoon, sounds like their mission trip is going great so far!  Thanks to everyone who is praying: “Hello friends and family!  What a trip it has been!  God is providing for us constantly!  We made it into Kilimanjaro airport with all our bags and even with all the [...]

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Stephanie and Babette’s big Tanzania adventure

The intrepid travelers, Babette and Stephanie.

Sunday, October 7th Yesterday afternoon, my dear friends and fellow Compassion Advocates Stephanie Green and Babette Arnold embarked on an epic trip to Tanzania to visit all 18 of their sponsored children.  If you’re reading this, please say a little pray for them, as they have a very ambitious agenda and Ethiopian Airlines had royally [...]

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a teenaged boy is a bottomless pit of hunger

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  he drank this…   and then he ate this!  And that was all before 10 o’clock this morning!  It’s scary how much teenage boys eat. It got me thinking, what would it be like to be extremely poor, and have a teenaged son with Joe’s bottomless appetite?  You would never have enough food for him, let alone your other [...]

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what is the value of your Compassion sponsorship?

This beautiful short video features images of Compassion sponsors meeting their children.  In less than two minutes, with no words, the video conveys the inexpressible joy of meeting these little ones that we have loved and prayed for from afar.  The video includes a few photos from the Rwanda trip I wrote about (see previous [...]

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