We host a lot of teams at Missions of Hope. Work teams, vision teams, individuals, organizations. We prepare for many of them. And some show up unexpected. It’s Kenya. It’s culture. It’s fine.
Two weeks ago, two life-long friends came to visit me from the States. Best gift of the year.
While chatting about the last year of life, we talked about something that they had recently talked about in their young married group. The four-letter word in marriage. Continue reading
I’ve wrestled with the title of this blog. A figurative sort of wrestling, of course. Any writer knows how words, and stories, can take a life of their own. And, in times like these, writing tends to be more for the writer, than for the reader.
A few weeks ago I heard a sermon on the Kingdom of God. There were two columns. On the left, all of the qualities of the Kingdom of God. On the right, all of the qualities of the kingdom of darkness.
Simple, right?
Maybe if we know what it’s like on the left. Continue reading
There are some things that you feel responsible after learning. Something about an experience that calls you to to action. To respond. And as you choose to obey or ignore this inner compulsion, you are changed in the process. You grow. You develop.
Sometimes you discover something and want to share it with as many people as possible. Why are we not writing to the Daily Nation, and sharing all that is happening every day in the Mathare Valley and beyond? Over time, I have come to be a bit more cynical of the media, not because of it’s politics and corruption, but because of it’s angle. It’s perspective.
It’s very nature makes it unable to tell the complete story. Continue reading
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