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Maabo was our neighbor who came from a family of weavers. We enjoyed watching him work when we visited to welcome his new babies. He sat barefoot on a slate stool working at a hand made, wooden [...]

I have felt compelled to finish the year well: to not let work, school, and personal routines slip because it’s the end of the year; but to finish several projects well. This week [...]

We are hosting a prayer conference at our English Language and Ministry Center this week. Please pray for all in attendance.

{Label Source} A small shipment of our Surinam cherry and ginger jam is packed and headed back to the States. Our tree gave a bumper crop this year. I didn’t want the cherries to go to the [...]

French impressionist Claude Monet painted about 250 oil paintings depicting water lilies at his home in Northern France during the last 30 years of his life. Monet suffered from cataracts which [...]

An elderly man rests his partially homemade bike against a wall while he finishes errands just before dusk. He’s likely gathering his animals on the way home from preparing his fields for [...]

Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest, Sun, moon and stars in their courses above, Join with all nature in manifold witness To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. Thomas Chisholm [...]

But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all [...]

When we traveled far from home for a retreat a few weeks ago, we took advantage of the wonderful restaurants, little boutiques selling South African coke {made with real sugar} and European [...]