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...
Celebrating twenty one years of beautiful memories with my baby girl today...
[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...
Aging out is a serious issue in the 147,000,000 global orphan crisis. Orphans that are “unadoptable”, growing up in orphanages and at the age of 18 being released to the streets with no one to care for them. The typical path for these unwanted emerging...
Every since God connected me with Jodi Tucker a little over a year ago, resulting in my assistance in the making of last years Orphan Sunday video in Guatemala, I have tried to describe Jodi to others with only limited success. Jodi is someone that...
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...
