(This "thank you" is long overdue, but I knew I would finally write it out one day!)As many of you know, prior to coming to Namibia I was working for an organization called MissionLab, a ministry of the New Orleans Baptist

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This week God has been teaching me a lot about the power of touch. As I have been interacting with the children I have been praying that they would feel God’s love through my touch. There have been several children this

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That photo is an example of what I will be missing out on these next couple of months. There is little else as beautiful to me as the changing colors of an East Tennessee autumn. God in His blessings, however, never

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This afternoon at I was in charge of playing Hangman with a few of the girls at FHS. They had a lot of fun with it. Some of the students are still learning my name, so one of the puzzles was

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Let me take you back to my time in Cape Town, because I had one more thing I wanted to blog about from my time there. Well, I shouldn't call her a thing. She is a person and her name is

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This past Saturday was Kaita’s “birthday”. I write it like that because no one is quite sure of his actual date of birth since he doesn’t have a birth certificate (an issue with many children here). His mother, who was HIV-positive,

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On Saturday, our day of departure, we had one more item on our agenda. We were told that a visit to Cape Town is not complete without seeing the whales at Hermanus, which populate the shallow waters around this time of

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Ok, well there was no plane involved, but today I traveled by train, taxi, boat, bus, and my friend’s car. That’s got to set some kind of record. If nothing else, it sets a record for how many various modes of

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