At the interns’ week we just hosted we challenged them to maintain these three postures: student - servant - storyteller. Any of us who want to live life on mission (overseas or not) need to be engaged in these three roles. Monday we focused on being students. We heard from some folks who have...

I came across lots of good books last year, but it was fairly easy to narrow down my short list of favorites. Have you read some of these books? Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places by Eugene Peterson: He has become one of my favorite authors over the past two years. I tend to be able to read books p...

We’ve had to visit the vet every day for the past five days (another dog in the neighborhood took a bite out of ours). One of the vets wants to go to the US next year, to go to graduate school in Illinois. We were laughing about the fact that I am originally from Illinois but am going to grad ...

In light of the last post, I thought I’d throw one more up here to talk about another recent experience involving singing: It’s Christmas season and Thai Christians love to celebrate Christmas by going caroling. I don’t know if it’s common to do it this way in other parts of ...

So I think I will start at the end of October and work my way through this post. Be warned there are lots of pictures to this post. Enjoy!!! So October ended with my birthday celebrations. I already posted the pictures from the actual day, but then I went out with some lady friends the next week to ...

This time of year is my annual double-reminder of Martin Luther, one of my “dead mentors.” He is a hero of mine in many ways — two of which are his devotion to and struggle for the Church, and his commitment and passion for giving people the Word of God in their own language. Over ...

Last week I was invited to a church planting summit, held here in Chiang Mai. I’m not sure how many people were there, but it was a good amount and I was excited to see that it was primarily Asians in attendance. They definitely outnumbered the white faces. Besides Thais, there were also Burme...

Our trip started out in Hanoi but we only had one full day in the capital city with all the pavement, big buildings and crazy traffic. This picture certainly doesn’t do it justice but I posted a video in a post a while back that shows a slightly better glimpse of Hanoi motorbike traffic. Durin...

Well I’ve been really slow at getting additional posts up here about the prayer journey to Vietnam and Laos. I won’t try to capture too much in this post (and hopefully it won’t take me another month to get back and write a little bit more), but wanted to write a little bit about o...

We celebrated on Sunday, but here are some pictures. I wrote happy fathers day in Thai for Preston to hold, but it was so hard to get him not to eat the paper....