This is a video of one of the children’s choirs with us at the Young Quaker Christian Association of Africa triennial conference last December. I now believe any conference without two such African children’s choirs just isn’t right and is in fact, far from being a complete conference. When I get back home from house […]
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Sitting on the floor of my apartment with a girlfriend of mine, we talked about how our lives are percieved by the money and material goods we have. As it turns out, neither of us felt comfortable with the labels most people in Western culture would place upon us after judging by these standards. For
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It always amazes me how far we can travel in such short a time. For example, today I traversed the entire North American continent in about 5 1/2 hours. Compared to the 33 hour flight coming home from Kenya, today’s was hardly much at all! Walking through the airports, it feels like old hat to
Sitting in front of me were thirteen women, most of them African, expectantly looking at me to tell them about women in ministry. They were strong women with gifts and talents, a desire to serve, and living in a culture that generally speaking, does not give them many rights of their own. One of the
This afternoon I was looking through the local newspaper and read an article on circumcision as an effort to stem the epidemic of AIDS in Africa. (Even after reading the article, I’m not sure how circumcision helps with this.) While reading the words, I saw the AIDS patients I met at the clinic at Lugulu
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This is the report I wrote to the three groups that gave me the grants that made it possible for me to go minister in Kenya: the Susan Bax Foundation, the International Outreach Granting Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and the Youth Opportunity Fund Granting Group of North Pacific Yearly Meeting. I thank God for
It took me about five minutes to realize the class was a handful to say the least and it wasn’t hard to pick out the instigators, the ones who acted out verbally and physically on an incredibly regular basis. They were the ones screaming, throwing tantrums, hitting and pushing each other. I wondered how their
Though these will be fun to watch for everyone, I took the first three of these videos especially for the editorial board of the Quaker Youth Book Project so they can see John’s family and where he is building his house. The fourth is a video of us together in Lodwar which I am sure
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This is the report I read during our monthly business meeting at church last Sunday about my trip to Kenya: Freedom Friends ChurchTraveling Minute ReportKenya 2009 January 9, 2010 Dear Friends, Since returning home from Kenya, I have had many people ask me about what being in Kenya was like and what it is like
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The headshots and rehearsal photos are now in for “You Can’t Take it With You”, one of those “fires” that is now off my plate for two weeks. Both the photos for Annie and the ones of the rehearsal last night for the other play turned out well, especially Annie. Tonight we had small group
