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When You Feel Like God Isn’t Listening
One of my favorite parts of church is teaching Sunday School. Someone gave us Betty Luken’s flannel graph material. Our kids love the huge, colorful pictures. Amazingly, my chronological teaching...
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Walking Through a Door of Hope
My first novel, Talents, was originally inspired by the parable Jesus told of the talents. As I considered the characters in that book and wrote them, I wanted to show modern people using the gifts...
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A Church for Isanja, Update
(Last fall, I managed to lose all the photos I’d taken for the previous 10 months. Yes, I cried. That event has been the single reason for the sporadic nature of my blogging the last few months. For...
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Water for Sangano, Update
A few months ago, I shared how they surveyors had found no water deep in the ground at Independent Baptist, Sangano. Water is a huge need there and we determined not to give up. The survey took place...
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When the Truth is Stranger than Fiction
When the Truth is Stranger than Fiction Ngumbito wasn’t well acquainted with the men who knocked on his door. He’d seen them around, they were his neighbors, but he didn’t know much about them. They...
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How’s Africa? – A Trip to the Dentist
The only trampoline accident we’ve ever had (thank God!) wasn’t long after we got to Africa and set the thing up in our yard. The kids went quickly from normal jumping to trying crazy tricks. To this...
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When the Truth is Stranger Than Fiction — Part Two
You can find the first part of Ngumbito’s story here. Ngumbito, a man from Independent Baptist Isanja, was wrongfully imprisoned and accused of murder. His family didn’t know where they’d taken him to...
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The Last Few Weeks Have Flown By!
I set a number of goals at the beginning of the year. One of them was to blog at least twice a week. I failed miserably to achieve that goal the last few weeks. They were very profitable weeks and they...
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When You Want to Quit
A few weeks ago, someone put this sign up along one of our jogging routes: The arrow on the sign points to this hill which goes up and up and up. We joke that the sign at the bottom is a warning to all...
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…And Back Again
It’s been over two years since I last posted. And what a two years they’ve been. We traveled to the US on furlough — and then got stuck there because of Covid-19 and world-wide travel restrictions. The...
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