I am traveling today in Guatemala with Orphan Outreach on a vision casting trip for the church I attend, Birchman Baptist, Our first care facility visit today was at a government run home for children. Sadly, many are placed here as result of abuse. These...
As I close the lid on my suitcase today, ready to depart to Guatemala, it's hard to believe that it has been only a year ago that I traveled there for the first time. While the time since has been brief, my encounter with God...
My good friend Ashley Otani, graphic artist and so much more for CAFO (Christian Alliance for Orphans), came through Texas on her CAFO Coast to Coast tour and asked me to photograph an Orphan Sunday event at Journey Church. After Ashley accepted mine and Carol’s invitation...
[caption id="attachment_7183" align="alignnone" width="660"] With Karmen Friesen and Ruslan Maliuta[/caption] When I started planning to visit Carissa in Switzerland where she is studying abroad this year, I was a little apprehensive about going on a trip without orphan related work being involved. All of my recent...
Monday morning 6:47am - Switzerland Watching the scenic blur of the Switzerland countryside go by from a train bound for Zurich, I find myself heading to meet my friend Ruslan Mutland to do interviews for World Without Orphans. My time in Paris with Carissa now seems like a...
What to pack when traveling is always a tough decision. The part of me that loves the vintage traveling of yesteryear longs for a return to the golden age of air travel. That side of me wants to don my best wool blazer, a smart...
Ever since I was six years old and witnessed the fateful journey of my little gray and black plastic camera sailing out the window of our car, I vowed to one day be a photographer with a vast collection of photos from all over the...
I could have spent a lifetime in Zambia and never run out of stories. Time was the constraining factor, not material. Weeks later as I think back on my visit to Zambia with Gary Schneider, founder of Every Orphans Hope, my mind reflects on Lubasi...
[Written a few weeks ago while visiting Bohol Island in the Philippines] Unable to sleep any longer in my still-dark Hotel room in the Philippines, I quickly dressed and crossed the bridge to the Badjao on a tuk-tuk. I wanted to find Therese, the little girl...
A couple of months ago when I was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, I wrote a story about a little girl named Ruth who touched my heart. While many of little Ruth's problems cannot be fixed, one could. I just received this photo last week of...
