On a trip like this, I suppose it's normal to have a variety of emotions. Part of me is, frankly, ready to go home. Another part of me isn't ready to go home at all. I think there's something emotionally settling about being in a place like this, for purposes like these; that is, sharing the gospel and helping others for the cause of Christ. But it's also challenging. There's the obvious challenges: a language barrier, cultural differences, and just being very busy. But there

Well, our first night in Peru has come to an end and I just wanted to share a few thoughts from the day. I could go through the events of the day, but I'll skip that for now other than a 30,000 foot view. Devotional in the morning, off to visit some families, and finally help with working with kids at a refuge. It's of course very interesting dealing with a language barrier. Several months of Duolingo really just evaporates when it comes to actually having to use what you've

The day started out early. The alarm I set was for 4:25 a.m., but as is often the case I woke up quite a bit beforehand. Last minute things around the house, pack the car, and head on. Half our team met at one house at 5:00 a.m. to head up to the train station, the rest met us there. Finally we ended up in Reagan national airport. Thankfully security was pretty simple, no issues. But you're probably not concerned with every minute by minute detail, are you? I'm noticing that

I recently wrote a post about packing, you can check that out here. Simple enough idea: work for the things that are eternal, because everything else you can't take with you. Now here I am, ready for a second trip, hoping I have everything packed that needs to be. It's easy to second guess, but eventually you have to just recognize you have it packed, somewhere. Our team leader for this mission trip sent a fitting message to our group this evening. In it he quoted a very help