Just showing up
Adoption has been a big part of my family’s story since we adopted our two youngest kids from Ethiopia in 2008. Not only have our adoptions changed the makeup of our family and opened up a new facet of the story of need to us, they’ve also led us to meet some really amazing people, [...]
Bin Laden is dead
Last night, my wife and I happened to navigate to Hulu.com to watch the latest episode of “Friday Night Lights” about one minute before President Obama announced live on Hulu (and other networks) that Osama bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan. My wife noticed the headline first. I wasn’t looking at the computer screen, [...]
Invisible Children speak by not speaking
Today at lunchtime I drove by a group of 10 or so young women from a local high school holding a vigil outside the public library. They silently held signs directing the attention of passing cars to the plight of children in Northern Uganda. When I stopped to try to interview them, one of them [...]
When God Gives You
Below are several excerpts from a recent update we received from our friend Emily Malloure, who serves with a campus ministry in Denver, Colo. Some names and locations have been changed from the original. Since I moved two years ago, my personal ministry has focused primarily on students at Regis University, which happens to have [...]
10-year-old Abdou
Last year, we profiled Joe and Mame Starke who are serving at a mission hospital in Galmi, Niger. They recently mailed us a story about 10-year-old Abdou that I’d like to pass along. Here it is in the Starkes’ own words: “Abdou…came to Galmi from his village after three weeks of illness. Only the sickest are [...]
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