[gallery ids="10272,10273,10274,10275,10276,10277" type="rectangular"] I am so excited to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro this July for a cause that is worth climbing (and training!) for. When Dan Johanson, my friend and the executive director of Badjao Bridge, asked me to join him and two others in this challenging...
[caption id="attachment_10194" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Up in the mountains near Pastor Mateo’s home[/caption] For those who prayed for our group of four who journeyed to Mexico, we are grateful, your prayers were felt. It has been a privilege for me to accompany Derrick from Mosaic Church in Fort...
I find writing to be a most interesting process. I read recently that much of what we write we must have the courage to wad up and throw away, as it was simply a process to get to what we were really trying to say....
In Poipet, Cambodia Saturday February 20th, 2016 Abandoned by her parents at the age of three, six-year-old Srey has every human reason to feel unloved and rejected. The tumor that disfigured her face was seen by her parents as a curse and ultimately led to her abandonment....
When the Khmer Rouge regime swept through Cambodia in the 1970’s, nearly a quarter of its population was extinguished from torture, mass executions, malnutrition and disease. It’s estimated that between one and three million lives were lost. After flying into Cambodia last month to photograph and...
February 19th, 2016 - Mae Sai, Thailand, in the Phami Village near the Thailand/Myanmar border Lying in my tent in a tree, suspended in space with only God and the stars for company, I pondered the story that I came here to tell. It is a story...
February 11th, 2016 In the impoverished area of Klong Toey in Bangkok, Thailand The pain from sickness and death impacts all of our lives, it is unfortunately one of life’s non negotiables and it’s impact on us all is a reminder that we live in a very...
The journey to Thailand and Cambodia from which I just returned left me more physically exhausted yet spiritually renewed than any other trip I have taken. This morning when I awoke after the first full nights sleep in fourteen days, the reason for spiritual renewal...
Two hours south of Siem Reap Cambodia is a village that floats on the water. The Kampong Klang floating village on Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake. Adrift on the water, engines silenced, all I could hear was the sound of children’s laughter echoing off the water...
Thursday Feb 18th - At Home of the Open Heart Orphanage, Chiang Rai, Thailand My senses reeled and my heart sank as I visited a hospice center in Chaing Mai, holding the hand of a dear man who is dying of AIDS. My own families experience...
