Different countries and families celebrate New Year’s all in their own ways, but lately mine have become somewhat unique, sadly…

Christmas can not only become too familiar, but too busy. What does it look like to go back to the stories again?

Every now and then some of Paul’s words connect with me as a missionary, and today one verse in particular hit me…

Every underdog movie needs a montage scene, which is fun to watch, but living out the montage is a different story…

Every day we see homeless people roaming the streets of Porto Alegre, but do we really see them?

Last week someone asked me something I’d never been asked before. I didn’t want to answer with the truth, but here it is…

Holidays overseas can be…well, complicated.

As a young adult I worked many jobs, but there was never a doubt who my best boss was…

Becoming a foreigner doesn’t mean a short-term trip overseas, it’s buying a one-way ticket to a place that doesn’t claim you, hoping that one day it will.

I used to love the Little Mermaid as a kid, but I’ve found that losing my voice in my new world isn’t fun at all. It’s hard…

We finally got a dining room table only to clog it up with a puzzle for its first two weeks. Why? We just had to complete a puzzle…

We have lived abroad for six weeks, I have asked myself several times, “What am I doing here?” Tonight I reflect on the reality of serving in weakness…

Let me frame for you our first four weeks in Brazil.

What’s tinier than a tiny house? Airline luggage, which is what we are stuffing our lives into these days…

We all like to make plans and head out our own way, but God calls us to follow him. Even when we hurt…

Being three weeks in a foreign country is a first for me, but it’s also been a good test of how I’ll handle the move to Brazil. I’ve thought a lot about confidence…

I had some adventures over the weekend in Kenya, but learned a lot about celebrating too.

Eighteen years ago I suddenly left Kenya, and for a while I never thought I’d return. But next week I will…

Our teacher sprinkled us with magic missionary dust this week, so everything’s good, right?

We should be ready to go now…

We’ve finished one week of training in Colorado. Here’s a taste of what it’s like.