This is a guest post from Chase Glantz, a Storyteller in the Marketing Department of Adventures in Missions. Chase shares more of his thoughts here. The pastor in Sumbawanga, Tanzania said plainly, “We’ve been praying for you for months. You are the answer to our prayers.” My first thought was, “Oh shit.I really hope not.” … Continue reading Faith Made Flesh
I just finished WILD: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail, by Cheryl Strayed. A friend had recommended this book many times over a few years. If you are easily offended, I wouldn’t recommend it to you. If, however, you’ve read Orange is the New Black, The Blind Side, Citizens of London, or Elie Wiesel’s, Night, or are … Continue reading Cheryl Strayed and Allie Hoped
This is a guest post from Chichi Agorom, a student at Denver Seminary. You can read more of her writing here. I read recently in one of those simple yet life-altering books about life, that the pattern of the Christian life is one of life after death. It’s the cycle we adhere to – … Continue reading To Embrace Death
Some days I hate my life. Africa life is not all it’s cracked up to be. Sometimes I don’t want to hop out of bed and embrace the day. The language barrier is freaking hard. Being hit on by grown men just because I’m white gets obnoxious. Bucket showers get old. Walking miles and miles … Continue reading Confessions of a Missionary
I love the idea of recycling, upcycling, bicycling… It seems that the idea of “reduce, reuse, recycle, educate” has biblical parallels: one person’s trash becomes another’s transformed product. Artwork, household goods, industrial items, water, ideas, and more can be recycled…redeemed for another use. And then we get to offer the transforming story up for the … Continue reading Recycled
I woke up this morning and tried to convince myself today would be glorious. Honestly, I didn’t really feel like it would be good, let alone glorious. Still, I pushed myself out of bed, started the kettle for tea and set about get ready for the day. I had quiet time with the Lord and drank … Continue reading How to Get My Head Out of My… Well, You Know.
I’ve been missing something…something visceral; something that I have always – under every circumstance – been able to count on and draw upon. I’ve looked in closets, books, song, people, silence, and in the battered book of faith that I’ve been known to toss at doors and walls. It wasn’t there. Searched photographs, memory, … Continue reading Rise
“I know your works, your toil, and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown … Continue reading He Loves Me
Yesterday, as I looked for the puppy’s chewy-ball, I heard a horrible noise and looked in time to see a large touring motorcycle flip, fling, roll, and skid outside. I yelled to Madi to call 911 and raced to the mess with a bottle of water and a wobbly prayer. She called and by the … Continue reading When your life is wrecked
This is a guest post from Stephanie South, a graduate student at American University. You can follow her blog here. The last four months of my life have been about showing up to yoga class and science experiments. Specifically, experiments I remember doing in fourth grade that was meant to teach me about surface tension. … Continue reading What To Do In the Tension.
