Journeying Home Together
I mentioned recently that I’m starting some new blogging endeavors, and said that I would tell you more about that soon. It’s all still kind of gelling together in my mind, and I’m still not exactly certain where I’m going or what I’m doing. But here’s the thing: When I went to Belize for the first time five years ago, my eyes were opened to a world very different from mine,
This is another of the posts I wrote during my last trip to Belize. If you would like to read more about my experiences in Central America, you may click here. Yesterday we had the privilege of serving alongside our Belizean friends. During our week together, we have made upwards of 70 blankets and 70 beds to be given to those who need it most in the villages of
This is Ingrid. If you’ve been visiting me here for long at all, you’ve probably already seen her sweet face in other posts I’ve written about my mission experiences in Belize. Over the past two years, something about this sweet girl has struck a particularly strong chord in my heart, and she is – as I tell her every time I see her – my sweet girl. Since the first
On Monday morning during this past trip in Belize, we had scheduled a time for the women of our team to work alongside the women of the Evangelical Quest Church – our sister church in Belmopan – to make fleece blankets. The blankets would be used later in the week for ministry and outreach in their community and other villages, and we thought that doing a project with the women
Since I just got back from my fourth trip to Belize, I have a lot of things to process. The next few posts will likely be focused on my thoughts and experiences from this trip. This post, in particular, was written on the trip itself. I am writing this post from 37,000 feet above the earth. I’m cruising through the air on my way to Belize, Central America for the
I have a strange existence. On one hand, I am a public speaker. On the other hand, I am a missionary. One requires that I be confidently put together and look the part. The other requires humility and has caused a striking awareness of the world. One puts me on a stage in a spotlight…while the other places me on dusty roads in a developing country far out of the
This post is another in a series I’m writing about the relationships I’ve formed during three mission experiences in Belize. To read more in this series, you may click here. Allison is three. I think she’s the youngest one I’ve connected with in Belize; my connection to her probably developed because of her closeness in age to my own little girl. She is Jessica’s little sister, and when I met
This post is part of a series of posts I’m working on about the relationships I, and other members of our team, have developed over the course of three mission experiences in Belize. To read more about these relationships, click here. Our team first met Mrs. Rash in November of 2010, on the first of our three trips to Belmopan to work with EQC. German, the pastor of our sister
This is a continuation of a series I’ve been doing on my relationships and experiences doing missions in Belize. To read more about these experiences, click here. I met Jessica and Ingrid in November 2010, on my first visit to Belize. On Sunday morning, the first full day we were in Belize, I sat alone on the front row of the tabernacle waiting for worship to begin and wondering what
This is part of a series of posts I’ve been doing on relationships built over the course of three mission trips to Belize with my church. We are in a long term relationship with a church in Belmopan, and each time we visit we work to facilitate the missions and ministries already in place within their community. To read more about my experiences in Belize, you may visit here. While
