by Dave | Apr 20, 2018 | Blog, Casual Friday
It’s been a rough week for me. Our most recent guests left us with the gift of amoebic dysentery. That has been draining in more ways than one. But I wouldn’t trade the week we spent together for anything. People like them must live with the threat of malaria,...
by Dave | Apr 13, 2018 | Blog, Casual Friday
Plenty of practical ways to enhance your missionary care skills packed into this week’s roundup. Whatever else you do this weekend, take time to snag these new resources. Then put them to use at your earliest opportunity. LIFE ON THE FIELD Paradox is part and parcel...
by Dave | Mar 9, 2018 | Blog, Casual Friday
What is it they say? March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb? Well, our local lion seems a bit confused. Blustery winds with a tinge of Spring one day, then back to below freezing temperatures and light snow. The weather can sure keep us on our toes! Just...
by Dave | Feb 2, 2018 | Blog, Casual Friday, Missionary Care, Personal Issues, Thriving, Transition
Happy groundhog day – if you’re into that. Believe it or not, some people are not eager for winter to be over. What if, at the end of this day, you had a chance to do it again? Would you do the same things? When it comes to caring for the missionaries you know and...
by Dave | Jan 26, 2018 | Blog, Casual Friday, Fundraising, Missionary Care, Suffering, Thriving
The flu visited our house recently, just like quite a few others, evidently. The onset was dramatic, and the recovery abysmally slow. So many parallels to “diseases” on the mission field. When you’re sick, you want someone at your side. Someone who will dote on you a...
