There are several kinds of missionary tales. The uplifting and exhilarating stories of spiritual triumph told over and over during presentations and meetings in our home countries; the edgier stories we swap with our teammates, that really only people living in our context will understand; the “missionary badge” stories of our bouts with malaria, consuming […]
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” A.A. Milne “Pooh! Pooh! Pooh! Pooh!” sings Ray in some semblance of rhythm with the Winnie the Pooh song, and with just the right amount of “puff” sandwiching the name. She’s learned what thinking looks like: elbow resting on your hand, fingers […]
The plane was slowly turning north towards the coast, circling around Ukarumpa giving all the old familiar roads looking up at me the appearance of a colorful map. I could see everything so clearly. The houses that have been mine for this moment or that. The hills that challenged me every time I went for […]
Thanks to a chalkboard wall, a Pout Pout Fish letters book, and the eager mind behind Ray’s sparkly eyes, I started homeschooling last year. If I’m honest, I started well before her third birthday was in sight because I was bored. The hot days drag without any sort of structure to them. We had routine, […]
The Abu boy picked his way through the sticky jungle with some other children, despite the tribal fighting going on between their people and a neighboring group, the Mbore. Perhaps the children were stalking through the undergrowth using their homemade slings to shoot flying foxes. Maybe they were shouting simply to hear their own muffled […]
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