Posted in Life Stories on Jun 3rd, 2008 7 Comments »
This blog post does not contain spoilers for the Sex and the City movie. This post is not a review, but an Opinion / Editorial piece.
This week my wife and I are celebrating our 6th anniversary, so yesterday we decided to catch a movie. Originally we were planning on catching the Indiana Jones movie, but [...]
Another day and more media coverage on the deepening world food crisis. Today, it’s the continuation of the UN’s plea for support of the World Food Programme and urging world governments to help with the shortfall in money the WFP is suddenly facing due to the surge in commodity prices.
Also announced today is the formation [...]
The Nicaragua team has been back home for 4 days now and the reality of reverse culture shock is sinking in. For a few of the first-timers, they are feeling angry, sad, and guilty.
Friends and family don’t understand you.
You feel guilty for being so wealthy while others suffer from hunger.
Life seems to go on [...]
Posted in Life Stories on Feb 20th, 2008 No Comments »
A revelation hit me this morning when reading an email… with all my planning and organizing for the mission in 3 weeks, I have lost sight of what the big picture is. In a strange way, the leader (i.e. me) should keep their eye on the ball and the bigger picture, but with all the [...]
Posted in Life Stories on Jan 30th, 2008 3 Comments »
Since this past weekend I’ve been fighting off some sort of flu bug that has attacked my body. I’ve been somewhat successful at fending it off, but yesterday, while at work it finally caught up to me. I started to lose my voice and I had a massive headache. By 1pm, I was falling apart [...]
Posted in Life Stories on Jan 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
For the past 2 months I’ve been dealing with a superficial dilemma. You see, I’m a bit of a photographer and enjoy taking photos as a hobby. But in the past year I’ve realized that my photography has become an important ministry tool. While in Nicaragua children often would come up to me to get [...]