A Year Ago Today
A year ago Black Friday (11/28/08), while America was either shopping until it dropped or hiding in pious rebellion from the holiday crowds, we were watching a city burn. A year ago Black Friday, these women became widows. A year ago Black Friday.
My Favorite Part – The Story
If you haven’t yet, read Part One. This is part two of a three-part series. There is a hospital in Jos, Nigeria that is run by the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA). ECWA and Evangel Hospital were started by SIM missionaries, are now Nigerian-run and have a program for the Nigerian women that develop vesicovagninal fistula … Read more
My Favorite Part – The Medical Lesson
I’ve been waiting to write this post mainly because I wanted to pull in some themes from a book and needed to re-read it (I love finishing books, by the way). My favorite part of our trip to Nigeria last November was, by-far, the coolest thing I have ever been privileged to share a part … Read more
Black Friday
These are the words we were asking the students to not say to their families. On Black Friday, while most of America was out shopping for holiday bargains, Jos, Nigeria was covered in the smoke of hatred. While our team was incredibly safe on the other side of town, we allowed the students to call … Read more
Overview
The title of this post is exactly what these pictures are. The soundtrack is provided by the students of LIFT 20; Let us Adore became our theme song of the trip. Cheers!
Tragedy and Triumph – A Guest Post
Some of you may remember, I went to Nigeria with the LIFT Discipleship program as their photographer. The LIFT director wrote this upon our return home and I though it was a good setup of what I’ll be writing about eventually. We experienced some pretty unusual things for a short-term vision/mission trip: Jos, Nigeria: November … Read more
2 of 4
This is video 2 of 4. There are some pretty cool stories here; I promise they’re coming.
A Small Break in the Silence
This is one of four videos you’ll be seeing over the next few days. I had to put these together for the Hood, so I’ll share them here too. I won’t be doing much explaining just yet; I must gather some more thoughts and find time.
