I hunched over the chalkboard, pink and blue dust covering my hands, carefully writing. We were browsing a cluttered vintage shop in Lancaster. Delmar and I both stopped and stared at a plaque against the wall. We both knew those words belong in our house. Their fate (slightly edited) was my chalkboard. I wrote the words this afternoon as [...]
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We Do Grace
Posted in family, home, love, people, prayer, vision, vulnerability on September 9, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Writing our Yes
Posted in adoption, children, faith, memoir, mission, vision on July 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Picking up the pen, writing the address, knowing this will go some place far away–and change our lives. Answering the questions, seeing our lives squished down into blue ink on a form. Making big x’s through the yes boxes: yes, we understand Uganda is dangerous. Yes, we will not hold you responsible for sickness or [...]
Our Next Adventure
Posted in adoption, children, mission, Uganda, vision on April 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Delmar and I are praying about going overseas for six months to volunteer at an orphanage or children’s home. We’d like to go right after Camp Andrews. It would not only allow us to serve God in helping the children, but it will give us first-hand experience for our own adoptions and also it will [...]
What Are We Known For?
Posted in adoption, children, church, devotional, faith, vision on March 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Our Orphan Awareness Banquet is coming up on Friday night. We’re so excited about it and seeing how God will move. We have 144 people registered to come and around twenty children. Please pray it will be a resounding success for God and His heart for orphans. I spent the evening working on our resource [...]
Announcing Our Speakers for the {openmouth318} Orphan Awareness Banquet
Posted in adoption, children, mission, vision on February 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
We are proud to announce the guest speakers for the Orphan Awareness Banquet. Bill & SaraLynn Lapp: they are passionate about adoption and foster care and have a beautiful family with lots of insights. Jay Leibee: he is a young man adopted from Columbia and will be sharing his powerful testimony. It’s going to be [...]
The Vision for the Banquet
Posted in adoption, children, vision on February 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Did you see? We are having a banquet for orphan awareness! It all started with a Facebook status. It was a status about hurting children. It sparked lots of conversation. As Marcia Nissley read the thread, she was inspired to bring more awareness to what each person can do to help the orphans of this [...]
celebrating people
Posted in celebration, children, Lancaster City, mission, people, vision on December 6, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Today, my friend Benji and I celebrated people. We went into Lancaster City with only one plan: to give people professional photographs of themselves and their loved ones as a Christmas gift. We believe each person deserves to be celebrated. In that conviction, we set out with a “portable studio” and a prayer that God [...]
abundantly living
Posted in friends, vision on March 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Someone asked me recently what was my purpose in life. I tried to sort all my dreams and thoughts into a concise few sentences. It all boils down to true, genuine love. If I can truly love my world in a Christ-like way, I will have spent my life well. So, I’m on a journey [...]
through the motions
Posted in quote, vision on March 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I don’t want to live my life just going through the motions–even if the motions are good and right things. My prayer to God is that I will be consumed with His Spirit, making me wholly alive. Jesus, I don’t want to live in a two-dimensional, stale bread existence. Let me not just go through [...]
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