Archive for the ‘Missions’ Category
It’s LAUNCH DAY for 31 Days of Forgiveness {through the eyes of grace}, by Tracie Stier-Johnson. It’s brand spankin’ new – right now the ebook is FREE on Amazon {just through Friday – so act fast to grab it!}
My mom flies out later today for a 6 week visit and will be seeing these precious faces again. This will be my mom’s first trip over their since grandma {her mom} died. She will be staying with grandpa and I am sure it will be a bittersweet time. My boys know she is going, and can’t [...]
…The dear boy struggled to give away the 5 {individually sealed} cones. He had at least 40 people brush by him as he said “I love you – have an ice cream.” or as he’d excitedly yell “HERE! HAVE AN ICECREAM FROM ME!”… Wesley was given a bit of birthday money and last Friday I sat [...]
They spend hours each day creating wonderful Lego creations – contraptions that can fly, drive and float, things to explode when dropped from great heights, things to delight their mama’s heart. They are blessed to have generous Uncles with a large Lego collection saved from their own childhood. While my children are quite capable of [...]
Up until the last post about my grandma’s death I had been on a break from blogging – an unannounced and technically unplanned break. For the two days prior to the news about my grandma I had actually spent some time trying to figure out how to write a post about what has been on [...]
This weeks idea for encouraging others came from a similar project my friend Tracie made – her blog is full of incredible projects and photographs and is refreshing to read about her love for the Lord and her daughters. You can read her blog here. I started with a box of Nilla Wafers, a bag [...]
Memory System Several months ago I was on the hunt for a system to use when it comes to memory work – we have spent the last year working on memorizing Bible verses, but never with a specific method. I read a couple of ideas I liked {no links to the original ideas – I [...]
Every now and then I ask the boys – “What do you remember about Nigeria?“ And every time their answer is the same – “I remember my friends. I had one name Glory, one named Osu, one named Queen…” and on and on they go, naming their little friends that they played with nearly every [...]
My world is now both smaller and bigger all at the same time. It’s smaller because I now vividly see life 6 hours ahead of my own time, half a world away. And it’s bigger because there is a life that I love existing half a world away. I find myself wanting to put off [...]
Tomorrow night the boys and I leave Africa. I chose to leave almost a week earlier then planned earlier this week after I was wiped out with stomach ailments and malaria. Now the boys have come down with the same problem and we have spent the last couple days trying to calm their stomachs, reduce [...]
