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Eye of the Storm
Typhoon season in Taiwan, we always had one or two rip through and cause a lot of mischief. I remember one year in particular; I was about fifteen. I went out on the front patio …
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Loss for Words
Have you ever felt alone when assembling with the family of God? You come in, sit in the back, and feel more judged than fed. Today you are just checking off the attendance list. You …
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A Bug’s Life
My name is Anthony, and I’m doing a guest post for the blog of Katie I am eleven years old. While my parents were missionaries in Ukraine, I was born there. When I was …
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Checkpoint Julian
When you get off track, return to your roots.
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Who Ordered the Horrid?
We had just moved into our apartment in Nikopol Ukraine. Stuart, a missionary just north, in Belarus, helped us get settled and thought it would be a good idea to take me to the …
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Twelve Days of Christmas
Just asking why we have the traditions we do, and wondering if we should change them to make the holidays more enjoyable
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Dripping Candy Canes
Some cultures have had to make some adaptions to Christmas…
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Extra Leg Room
Micheal brings a whole new meaning to the term “Extra leg room”. He was adopted from an orphanage in Taipei, Taiwan, and was born with a rare condition in which neither of his feet developed, …
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Just minding my own business
With the change in season, my mind is drawn back to a time in Ukraine. There is a term in Russian, ‘babushka’, which technically means ‘grandmother’, but was often used to refer to any older …