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While she lived in Swaziland, Lisa Black fell in love with the orphan children of Nsoko. She called them "children of the dirt"; they have nothing, ...
Are you the kind of person who says, "It's not my fault," or do you take responsibility when things go wrong? Our culture teaches us to duck and dodge...
You may recall the story (recounted here and here) of Baby Moses. It was so heart-rending. When my son and his team visited her home in Swaziland,...
I'm sick of reading the news. The drumbeat of negativism is relentless. And the local TV news is the worst. To listen to it, you'd think that we...
Jeannette Wheeler is in Nicaragua and just posted this great blog. We need to identify with the poor . We need to put ourselves in their shoes (if t...
Yesterday's blog was about the disturbing situation in Swaziland, a country spiraling downward at an alarming rate. Our ministry is responding.�...
Remember the blog I recently wrote about that lady we visited in the shack who was dying of AIDS? I just got an email that she died. And so it g...
Karen and I have a great marriage and I hope you do too or will one day. Marriage should be an institution that brings joy and life to our lives. ...
It's 1:19 a.m. and I've been going strong all day. And I'm thinking about what to do about this pattern I'm in. Maybe I need to make some changes ...
When I first started going on short-term mission trips in 1975, I was an oddball. No one knew what to make of a high school student going off to Gua...
