My friend Rita is not your typical missionary. She is a 61 year old grandmother who has lived in the same city for more than 30 years. She has a job and she owns a home. And English is the only langua...
Delhi is a wonderful but tough city to live in. It is polluted – they say that living here is like smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. I believe it. I can smell and SEE the pollution. The wea...
Liza has had a hard life. So many women in her country of Bangladesh face incredible hardships but Liza’s story is more heartbreaking than most. Liza lost her father at the age of six. Later tha...
“Where’s my Daddy?” The gnawing question was inevitable, but Stayce Smith, then a young mom of 22, was unprepared with an answer fit for a three year old. “Daddy” could be her boss, her mailman, or th...
Corrina was baptised on the19th July 1987, a few months after the Mumbai church started. Soon after that she had to undergo open-heart surgery on the 4th of September 1987. Once she was discharged fro...
Kelly was my next door neighbor. She was in diapers and crawling when I met her twenty years ago. Though her older brother and sister were good friends of my children I rarely spent time with her. Nea...
Sometimes the stories I hear in India are hard to believe. They seem to come from a time long ago when women were mistreated and considered as second class citizens. Unfortunately these stories are ve...
Susan is a single woman in her 50s. She works as a nurse. In 2009 she was invited to the 20th anniversary of the New Delhi church, She was very impressed by the love and commitment of the disciples. S...
Lisa Harriman is a single sister in the Northwest Region of the Boston church of Christ. Lisa grew up in Plaistow, NH, as one of eight children, and lived in the country, surrounded by horses and natu...
“I’ll Praise You in the Storm” by Casting Crowns was the ringtone I had picked for my phone in 2008, little knowing that it would soon become the metaphor and anthem for my life. It was in that year t...