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Greetings from Pulaski! We made it to Pulaski this morning for day 1 of our weekend mission trip to work on tornado recovery. 7 months after the tornado, they are still working hard to rebuild. In particular, there are 5 homes they are hoping to move families into before Thanksgiving. Many people are still in temporary shelters . . . → Read More: Pulaksi Mission  It feels like we have been in Brazil for a LONG time…but in real time, we have only been away for two days! We spent a long time traveling, but God was extremely gracious to us from the beginning, getting us on an early flight to Charlotte, getting all of our luggage to . . . → Read More: Brazilian hospitality It has been a long and wonderful couple of days here in El Salvador. Sunday was our first full day here, and we spent the day touring around a couple of smaller towns, walking through the markets and drinking coffee. Many of the churches do not have services on Sunday morning, but . . . → Read More: Bendiciones Being in Central America feels like coming home. I had this overwhelming feeling as we rode in the small school bus from the airport in Guatemala City across the border into El Salvador. The smell, the sounds, the countryside and the city, even the feeling of the school bus seats, all of . . . → Read More: Coming Home I have been reading Adam Hamilton’s book “24 Hours that Changed the World” as an additional devotional reading for the past two days. About today, Holy Saturday, Hamilton says that it is a day of despair and hopelessness. I imagine that it was for the first followers of Jesus, for those disciples who looked at each . . . → Read More: Holy Saturday: A Day of Waiting There’s something deep inside of me that believes the world should stand still on Good Friday. So, it’s always puzzling to me why things still go on as usual. My Friday class will still happen at the gym, people will still go out and about their business. Most of the world will make no distinction that . . . → Read More: Good Friday: A Day the World Stands Still Well, after I shared that I am a rebel, now I am returning to the Tradition. Today, Maundy Thursday, we read the story of Jesus’ last supper with his disciples. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, this is a Passover meal that Jesus shares with his disciples in an upper room inside the city of Jerusalem. I have . . . → Read More: Maundy Thursday: Passover Revisited If you know me, you know I have a slightly rebellious streak; I don’t like doing things the way that everyone has always done them or the way that everyone does them now. (Which is funny because I LOVE Tradition with a big “T”…the ancient Church tradition, not the little “t” traditions of our small time . . . → Read More: Wednesday: The Least I learned something last year during Lent that is really very simple: during the last week of his life before death and resurrection, Jesus spent the majority of his time teaching at the temple. It was fascinating to realize that I had overlooked this for all of the years that I have been a Jesus follower, . . . → Read More: Tuesday: Teaching in the Temple In just a few minutes, I will be on my way to a Passover seder. What an amazing way to spend the Monday of Holy Week! Words cannot describe how blessed I feel to be receiving the hospitality of the Springer family, who have invited me to join their holy meal for the third year in a . . . → Read More: Monday: Passover Begins |
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