This week I sat at the bedside of a dear friend who’s dying. She was present with us, yet far away in her mind and heart. The few phrases she managed to speak were about Jesus. How He is with her in her sleep. How she and Jesus have had precious conversations lately. How Jesus…
Category: love
Celebrating Goodbye
Missionaries say A LOT of goodbyes. To short-term mission teams who move in and out of the ministry. To friends and family who visit for a week or two. To summer interns. To nationals who move on. To fellow teammates who leave the field permanently or for weeks or months of furlough. When every hello…
Simply a Call to Love
A new year brings me a new adventure– Africa! God drew my heart to Africa about five years ago at a conference at Mars Hill Bible Church in Michigan. I attended a break-out session on the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. As I listened, I knew that I had to go to Africa one day….
A Life Called to Love 