After almost 20 hours in the air and loosing Thursday due to a 14 hour time change, we arrrived at Bohol Island in the Philippines. After a bowl of Halang-halang soup with chicken and a refreshing swim in an underground cave we felt renewed and invigorated...
As I prepare for a return trip to the Philippines tonight on a 15 hour flight that departs at 10pm, my mind is flooded with memories. Four years ago my heart was broken into a million pieces when our daughter Christina passed from this earth. There...
I am so excited to depart for Africa in just four days. There are two legs to this trip, the first starts July 5th when I depart D/FW airport for Uganda with Charles Loper, found of The Master Cares Foundation. I will be in the...
[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...
[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 24, 2015] Ever since I had the pleasure of traveling to the Philippines last December with Dan Johansen, executive director of Badjao Bridge, I have wanted to return. Dan’s ministry to the Badjao Tribe on Panglao Island captured my heart in a special way, I...
Last December, as I tiptoed across the planks that connect the little huts the Badjao Tribe call home, I snapped this photo of a little Badjao girl appropriately named “Angel". Little did I know then that her photo would be selected as the face of...
[caption id="attachment_5027" align="aligncenter" width="560"] Badjao Community on Panglao Island[/caption] A few weeks before I was to accompany Dan Johanson and the Badjao Bridge team to the Philippines last month, I received an email from Dan containing a heartbreaking story. Little Pina, a five year old Badjao...
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” Henry Van Dyke Saying goodbye is never easy, especially when it is to...
When I first contacted Dan Johanson of Bajao Bridge a year ago and learned of his beautiful ministry here on Bohol Island I started sponsoring little Therese. Therese is one of the reasons I came to the Philippines and meeting her is something I have...
