Editor's note: While you're overseas, there's a 100% chance you will at some point be baffled by either the size…
A global-worker friend from Nepal sent me a Marco Polo recently. She described a day of local handymen installing appliances…
It was December 24th, but I was the only person out shopping that night thinking about stocking stuffers. I ran down…
Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Rebecca Hopkins’ blog, Borneo Wife, when she and her husband served in Indonesia.…
When my kids were learning to swim, they loved the thrill of jumping from the edge of the pool into…
It's a cautionary tale for any of us. (Sometimes "good missions" is defined by what not to do.) Barbara Kingsolver's…
I watched her eyes redden, moisture collecting at their edges. "No one told me how lonely this would be," she…
. By Anonymous Perhaps in moving overseas, even possibly working with Christians for the first time, hope fills your sails.…
Recently, someone asked me about our move to Uganda. Did we have all our kids over there? they wondered. "No,…
The phone connection sounded a bit like Oliver, one of my closest Ugandan friends, was crushing newspapers on the other…