Walking through Kroo Bay, I was completely surprised by the number of children hanging around. It was the middle of the day and hundreds of children roamed around, most with baskets or bowls of items on their heads for sell. Those that weren’t selling were too young and just roamed around, seemingly unattended by any [...]
I must first admit that Day 5 has been the day that I’ve dreaded writing about from the beginning. Not because anything extremely terrible happened to me personally on this particular Wednesday in Sierra Leone; but rather because something terrible is happening everyday to the people that I encountered this day. I’ve never felt so [...]
After our interviews in the War Wounded Camp, I asked Joan if we had another interview set up and she gave me a look that perfectly reflected how I was feeling at the moment…. I just can’t handle any more right now. Agreed. There are hundreds upon hundreds of stories to be told in Grafton, [...]
Tuesday morning dawned bright & beautiful with the generator serving as my alarm clock at 5:00 a.m. Devotions were good, again, as we sang my favorite worship song, Chris Tomlin’s God of This City. I just love the lyrics…
You’re the God of this city
You’re the King of these people
You’re the Lord of this nation
You Are
You’re [...]
Monday arrived bright and blurry-eyed with the generator kicking on outside my window at 5:00 a.m. - giving me a little time to drift in and out of sleep until 5:45 when Bridget and I needed to get up and get ready for devotions. One good thing was that I didn’t have to take much [...]