Love, Dirt, and Miracles
I try to help my neighbor through a crisis, and she shuts me down. I give cold water to a homeless person, and he says what he really needs is money. I offer to pray for someone and they look [...]
Living With HIV
Shame. Stigma. Discrimination. Rejection. Abandonment. These are the words that should come to mind when you put yourself in the shoes of a person living with HIV in the India of 2015. So much shame, that you’d rather die than [...]
Learning From the Thanksgiving of Others
When you think of these people in the Bible what do you think of? Jonah – Whales? Running from God? Pompous? Bitter? Mary the mother of Jesus – Virgin birth? Young? Angels? King Nebuchadnezzar – A golden statue? Babylon? Insanity? [...]
Glimpses of Hope in the Elimination of Violence Against Women
For some crazy reason my latest relaxation reading has been biographies written by women about their lives in some of the more difficult nations in the world. Just in case anyone’s wondering, it’s not great relaxation reading. On the plus [...]
Hanging Up Your Superman Costume
You’ve probably all seen the movie. The community is in havoc and needs a hero to save it… Along comes Superman to rescue the people, free the city and save the day. How often do we take the same “hero” [...]
How to Add More thanksgiving to Thanksgiving
How will you show thanks this holiday? I remember a few years ago sitting down to watch football after our Thanksgiving meal thinking, ‘I haven’t really taken the time to make Thanksgiving very thanks giving.’ Not only had I missed [...]
Numbers, Numbers, Numbers
As the Executive Director, there’s a whole bunch of questions that leave me cringing. They aren’t fundamentally bad, they are just super hard to answer. Questions that should be simple like “How many staff do you have?” “What is your [...]
Update on Nepal Earthquake Recovery
RW’s leaders visited Nepal in October to check in on the communities that we’ve been walking with since the earthquake last April. Here are the highlights of the trip. Nepal is in the throes of a prolonged, country-wide fuel [...]
Why Depending on God is Hard for Me
In the United States it seems everything is at our fingertips. I remember when our family returned about 3 years ago from living in Bolivia. One of the first things we remember (even as we walked through the airport) was [...]
How God Provides
One of the things that we believe God has spoken loudly and clearly to us about is local fund raising. The typical international model is: get the money from the richest places and do the work in the poorest places. [...]