Cindi and I are on the third day of our eight-day East Coast trip to New York and Boston. It’s been a refreshing few days together, which was the goal — to spend some good quality time together after four years of seminary, to celebrate Cindi’s first Mother’s Day, and to enjoy each other during […]
May 22, 2007
Because we serve in a dorm at a Christian college, our summer activities are always quite different than our semester schedule. So for family and friends who might be interested and for those who like to pray with a schedule in mind, here are our tentative summer plans (including the past couple weeks): May 14-18: Biblical Ethics […]
May 19, 2007
A lot has happened since my last post on May 10: The college semester ended with the seniors graduating and all the students moving out of the dorm for the summer; the seminary semester also ended and I graduated along with about sixty-five other men from the M.Div. program at TMS; our families flew out from Oklahoma to […]
May 10, 2007
God has made some amazing things. Here are a few illustrations from our trip: Nile Monitor Lizard: Cindi took this picture from a canoe on the Nile. This particular Nile monitor was 5-6 feet long. During our time in Jinja one of the orphanage volunteers saw one of these things walking across the road in […]
May 8, 2007
Cindi returned home from Uganda on Monday morning. I picked her up from LAX around 11:00am and we spent much of the day together. Obviously it was difficult for her to leave Judah, but she’s glad to be home. Some missionaries named the Bissets invited her to stay in their home for the last two […]
May 7, 2007
Before, during, and after our recent three-week trip to Uganda, I’ve had a lot of thoughts about missions. So many, in fact, that most people think that Cindi and I are locked into being career missionaries (which isn’t true; we’re still deciding that). A lot of those thoughts coalesced a few days ago during a […]
May 3, 2007
Like any journey to a significantly different culture, our trip to Uganda provided us with fresh (though cracked) lenses through which to see aspects of the American mindset. The lens is fresh because it’s tinted with an African shade that enables us to see American culture from a new perspective. And the lens is cracked […]
May 28, 2007
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