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Interesting Posts

Practising Medicine: What’s it like?

24 June 2011

Specifically, what’s it like it east Africa? I really enjoyed this post from Ginna about the challenges, frustrations and blessings related to practising medicine where she is.  Here’s the start – click through to read the rest. ‘So, what’s it like to practice medicine over there?’ That is a questions I was asked a lot while [...]

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Anita

16 June 2011

This post from a missionary in Peru was entitled Hope.  Without the Lord Jesus, I’m not sure there would be much.  This is the heart-wrenching story of a little girl, but it’s only the beginning of the story… What do you want to be when you grow up? Remember being asked that when you were [...]

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Sink Scrubbing and Crutch Training

14 June 2011

I’ve been enjoying some posts lately from Avec Deux Mains, the blog of an Occupational Therapist in Niger.   The author works at Galmi Hospital, which you can check out by clicking the link. One post that caught my attention was Lessons From the Sink Scrubber.  I’ve give you a teaser – then click through [...]

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Back to Regularly Scheduled Programming…

30 May 2011

Well, that’s enough of giving things away for a while – it’s time to get back to what we’re all about: Missionary Blogs! But did you know that missionary bloggers are always giving things away?  They’re taking the time to share their lives with you, and share with you about what God is doing! So [...]

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Literacy in Nicaragua

20 April 2011

Literacy is a problem all over the world – yes, even in countries that statistically have a near 100% literacy rate.  So just imagine the challenges in a country where, according to the statistics, only about 2/3 can read.  Many of those are probably not reading well and understanding – and are probably not teaching [...]

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The Birth of a Ministry

18 April 2011

I enjoy reading about how things change, how ideas are born, and how they grow into new ways to help others.  That’s what this post out of Peru is all about, so I wanted to make sure to share it with you. It’s about making do, running, communicating – and it starts out with this [...]

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Aspects of Ministry from Around the World (and a couple of posts from Japan)

12 March 2011

Just a few recent interesting posts from around the world.  At the bottom I’ve included a couple of initial posts on the situation in Japan – I’ll try to have more for you next week as the news gets out.  For now, all the missionaries that have posted have said that they and their families [...]

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Nueva Jerusalen La Laguna (Guatemala)

19 February 2011

What, you’ve never been to Nueva Jerusalen La Laguna?  Well, now’s your chance! The pictures and the story will give you a feel for this family’s visit.  The village is K’ekchi’ – (Q’eqchi’) – a people group numbering about 400,000 in Guatemala. Thursday night we were invited to the village of Nueva Jerusalen La Laguna [...]

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Demons out! Luck in!

4 February 2011

The BBC has this to say about a Shinto festival: Rissun is celebrated on 3 February and marks the beginning of spring. It is sometimes called Setsubun, although Setsubun can really refer to the beginning of any season. Rissun is known as the bean-throwing festival. When celebrated at home, a male of the family will [...]

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Travelling Around Africa

26 January 2011

So, I’ve been travelling all around Africa!  Well, not in real life – but via the blogs of our many missionary bloggers in Africa.  So I thought I’d stop and share with you some of the posts I found! Do we take for granted the simple things – like electricity?  In Senegal, getting basic steady [...]

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