The year began with my Christian friend asking me how I was planning to be a “better believer” in 2013. “Are you going to read
This week marks one year that our family has lived in Papua, serving at the MAF base in Sentani … 365 days, every single one
What makes Christmas…Christmas? Since my first overseas Christmas eight years ago, I’ve wrestled with that question. In the past eight years, we’ve had eight very
Is it hard to envision Christmas in the tropics? It was for me when we first moved to Indonesia in 1998. I didn’t even bring
The corner store is smelly, and crowded with others like me—coming for something quick and small. Some vegetables to make dinner maybe. Gas for the
I find myself chuckling as I attempt to describe corndogs to the group of children in front of me. As I describe the concept of
I’ve always loved rainbows, but ever since a morning in 2001, they have held special significance to me. I was sitting on our front porch
Everything went dead. Great, I thought. This power outage would probably last at least eight hours. The list of tasks that needed electricity ran through
