Moving into the Village When you go through training before serving overseas, you are told many things. Two of the most important are: be flexible and be an observer first. We are told these things because when entering a new system in a new country things are not going to go the way you think …
Continue reading How 9 Years in South Sudan Prepared Me for Step-Motherhood: Part 3
For those of you who may have missed it, I recently had an article go up on the Gospel Coalition Canada site. This one is about some of the unexpected pressures that stepfamilies face and what the church can do to serve these families. Here is an excerpt: "The church would do well to take …
Photo by Pixabay from Pexels Mother’s Day is no longer as simple as it was. When I was young it was nothing more than giving a card to the one woman I knew called mom but much has changed since then. A Complicated Cluster I gained a step-mom in my mid-teens and a mother-in-law in my early twenties. …
The anniversary of my first wife's death and my marriage to my second wife fall within a week of each other in June. By no means does my life look like I thought it would. So many things that I assumed and leaned upon have fallen away, but the glory of God has been an …
Hard and Unexpected I thought my mom was going to kill me. I was sitting there in a meeting with the head of the health project and the clinic manager and I could hardly believe my ears. I knew that I would do language learning when I got to Doro but I had not expected …
Continue reading How 9 Years in South Sudan Prepared Me for Step-Motherhood: Part 2
I remember that time like it was yesterday. Those days before I left for South Sudan back in 2008. All the details and plans had been worked out: flights, accommodations, job descriptions, and packing lists. I was full of anticipation for the adventure I was about to embark on and was already starting to fall …
Continue reading How 9 Years in South Sudan Prepared Me for Step-Motherhood… an Introduction
Too Small A Thing 