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...
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...
[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...
August 18th, 2015 - 6000 miles from home in Istanbul, Turkey Carissa and I are in our fifth country with one more to go on our 40,000-mile-long August Journey. I woke up this morning surrounded by The Bosphorus, the Hagia Sophia and the Blue mosque of Istanbul, with...
While I was in Ethiopia, a story was published in Compassion International’s magazine about my daughter Christina’s sponsorship of a child in India. Friends have shared it and I am grateful. Now that I have returned, I am sharing it as well and taking the...
Mission work doesn’t stop when you step off foreign soil, there are stories to be shared everywhere we go. When Emirates flight attendants Kristine and Carolina asked me where I had been before my Dubai to Dallas connection, I explained that I was in Ethiopia...
I have no idea what I was using for a camera back in 1991, nor do I know if the camera was fully to blame for the blurred quality of these photos, but one thing is crystal clear: my love for this precious little 5...
