Saturday, Day 01 of the World Without Orphans Cycling Team tour from the California coast to the Miami coast. These photographs are from today’s 72 mile ride with its grueling 4000’ climb from the Pacific Ocean. Temperatures soared into the nineties but fresh picked oranges and...
[May 3rd 2018] It was great to meet up with Gennadiy Mokhnenko today in my own country! Gennadiy and his World Without Orphans cycling team were fitted for bicycles today as they prepare to depart Saturday for their 2600 mile trek across the U.S....
With the Pacific Ocean for a backdrop, over 900 Pepperdine “waves” took their walk across the stage, repositioning tassels and accepting their hard earned diplomas in the process. I’m pretty sure that of all the dad‘s present, there were none more enthusiastic and proud than...
Carol and I loved attending "Is This It" featuring works by seven artists who are graduating this year from Pepperdine's Seaver College with BA degrees in Studio Art. The work displayed included paintings and installation, as well as reflective concept art focused on social commentary....
Carol and I are grateful to have met this years recipient of the Samford award named in honor of Christina. Mary Hailey Sinyard has a beautiful and contagious spirit and we wish her the best in her endeavors in China after graduation. We love her...
This week our group from Birchman Baptist Church will be serving the community of Panabaj, a small village on Lake Atitlan, just outside the city of Santiago Guatemala. On October 4, 2005, torrential rains from Hurricane Stan caused massive mud slides down the face of the...
After days of hard work in Kenya with the staff of Joy Divine, we decided to have a little fun climbing Mount Longonot. Not only did we summit this amazing crater but we hiked around the spine before descending from it’s peak of almost 10,000’....
I struggle at how to photographically tell this story. Most of my photographs depict the after, not so much the before. Capturing Grace, I call it, telling stories with photographs and words of those who are the recipients of Gods grace, love and mercy. Bear with...
Even before my departure for Kenya, the stories had become familiar. Children surviving in the slums without parents, six and seven year olds joining groups of children with similar fates in an effort to survive. In time they learned to sniff glue and jet fuel,...
The smiles and laughter I experienced upon arriving to Madeline School gave no clue to what these children have survived. Here in the remote African countryside, these precious children all have one thing in common, their lives have been hard, really hard. The road these children...
