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Welcome…to Worship in Ethiopia
{A Five Minute Friday Post} We stood outside the church building under a brilliant, nearby sun. I had no idea of the time as I hadn’t been able to keep track since we’d arrived in Africa. Eleven hours...
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Two Years Ago, Africa
While growing up, I feared that God might someday make me go to Africa as a missionary. You have to understand, I grew up a pastor’s daughter and that was strange enough. To me, at that time, the worst...
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To Keep Hope Alive
Nothing said “home” to me about the disheveled collection of huts. They were lean-tos really and in my American mind, this pocket slum in Addis Ababa resembled a child’s treehouse or fort: crooked...
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Change the World in One Easy Step
photo courtesy of New Covenant Foundation What if it really were a thing of the past, like rotary dial pay phones? What if the concept of poverty had to be explained to our children like the concept of...
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If I’m Lucky To Be Alive, Well, I’m Screwed
Is it luck? People tell me I’m lucky. I hear it regularly. I’m lucky to be here, lucky to be alive, lucky to be walking. And it sort of makes me chuckle, because they never say I’m lucky to have my...
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African Mother’s Day–Filling Empty Arms With Hope
I don’t know much about Africa. I was there just two weeks. Hardly long enough to be an expert. But I landed in Ethiopia with this mission: to keep my eyes open and tell the stories of what I saw. I...
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