[serialposts]The above picture captures how you feel. Excited, excited, excited! People, you are going on a mission trip. You prayed. You planned. You raised support money. You researched all possible facts about your destination. You met with your mission group. You...
[serialposts]Summer is only one flip of the calendar page away, and you know what that means: beach days, icy lemonade, water fun, and mission trips. Churches everywhere are preparing to send teams of people out on summer mission trips, and for the month of May, the...
I woke up feeling the cool breeze of the Guatemalan morning. It was refreshing as my heart had been wrecked beyond what I could imagine the days previous. Walking around the Guatemala City Dump community the previous day had left me feeling overwhelmed. My mind...
Sophonie, she scratches words on peach-colored concrete with a sliver of yellow chalk. She points to them and then to herself. “God. Me. Father. Mother.” I brim and pull her close. “Yes. God. He’s your father and your mother.” And...
[serialposts]I’ve thought a lot about Christmas gift giving lately. It’s something that weighs heavy on my mind now. Maybe it’s because I know it’ll be a pretty light year here in the King household. Between losing my job of 13 years just a few...
“Compassion inflicts its knife-like pain only on those who, strong or not, brave or not, intelligent or not (such qualities are beside the point), have been granted the horrible gift of looking the world full in the face and seeing it as it is.” –...
