Just thought I would remind everyone that we have a web-site at www.afutureandahope.net Be sure to check out the hand made jewelry. Kate and some of the girls work hard on creating the beads out of recycled paper, and coming up with the designs for the jewelry. Also one of our team members blogs at ...

There is a passage of scripture from the book of Habakkuk Hosea (NKJV) which goes something like this: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Now put aside the context for the sake of this blog posting, and just consider that statement. Ignorance can have a profound impact on someone's life,...

I have been thinking this morning about how to describe the work we do in the community. (I am trying to write a few articles introducing us and our work to new readers. The first in the series can be found here.) When it occurred to me to just tell you a story that happened a few days ago. We had a...

People Living With Aids Not dying but living. Today we will be having a lunch meeting with a group of about 30 people who are HIV positive. We work with these folks on a regular basis, and so know most of them well. Ben, our team member who does most of the field work, knows them really well. He kno...

Finished reading The Myth of a Christian Nation by Gregory A. Boyd a few days back. I need to say thanks to my friend and fellow team mate Babu Lonnie for loaning me the book. Essentially the premise of the book is that when we seek to fuse the Kingdom of God with the kingdom of the world we end up ...

This morning I was reading the first chapter of James in the Bible again, when something caught my attention in a cross reference: Isaiah 1:17 NKJV Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow. Doing good is something we learn. In other words just ...

I am aware that there are followers of Christ who look at the countries they live in from a point of view of what it once was and/or what they want it to be.  They are so upset over the way things are that they store up weapons and ammunition.  Full of zeal, they stockpile food and supplie...

The construction on the new room for orphaned boys is so far going on without any problem at all. We are on track to be starting on the roof next week, and I can't tell you how excited we are. It is so humbling to be part of a project like this. We are building space for these orphans to live. I mea...

"Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference …. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christiani...

14 years ago I married Kate Ellen Showalter in Nederland, TX. I know what some of you are thinking. 14 years? How did she put up with him for that long? Ha. Well personally I don't think I am all that bad, but for sure Kate is all that good. What is good about me is because of her. She has taught me...