Honored to Assist the Gardener

07.06.2017 It’s already the end of the second week, and I am shocked at how quickly the time has gone. The days feel long from the blazing hot weather and the burdens God has been placing in our hearts. Yet when I look back, the weeks are flying by and...

more like Him

07.05.2017 On the one hand it has been a fantastic week, we have been invited into many homes to do medical screenings and shared the Gospel with so many people. At the same time it has been a constant battle with my human nature as the constant heat and exhaustion...

Spirituality & Healthcare

07.02.2017 Today completes our first full week of SMI so far! Although it’s been tiring, my time here has been such a blessing. I’ve learned so much about opportunities to discuss spirituality in the context of medical care from the clinicians who came to speak to us...

Solution to Suffering?

What is the solution to suffering? As a child of white middle-class America, it was not often that I considered what suffering mean outside of the context of my own life.  It is not to say that there isn’t suffering in the community that I grew up in, but there are an...

Unexpected Gospel

6.29.17 “All of us must die eventually. Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God does not just sweep life away; instead, he devises ways to bring us back to when we have been separated from Him.” 2 Samuel 14:14...