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…

Beauty and Sorrow

“I need to see beauty,” Giles exclaimed.  It was not a typical Tuesday.  We had just found out that our dear friend, who was then lying in a hospital bed, struggling for each breath, had received a grave diagnosis and prognosis. A rare form of cancer that insidiously permeated the fluid in his chest cavity which was also quickly…