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Figuring out how to live a life that reflects justice, mercy, and humility. When God Asks You to Do Car Loans. Last week marked one year that I have been serving with Branches! One year ago, I sat with my fellow missionaries and new AmeriCorps VISTAs in training, learning about this organization that I would be with for the next year and a half.

The wife of the barangay chairman took him home, but Bai, as he was called by everybody, could not shake off the manners and culture of the mean streets he got accustomed with. Often, Bai would go back to the world .

Adventures of a Methodist Missionary. Want to support my mission? Want to follow my blog via e-mail? Click on the orange button below to receive my posts through e-mail! Join 40 other followers. This is also me! I have 3 lovely younger sisters! For more on Global Ministries, click here! These are the awesome people I work for! Not Wed to the Idea.

Writing often helps me piece together my thoughts and order them in a healthy way so that my poor heart and brain are not struggling at maximum capacity. There are rare times in which those writings come out in the open to be shared though. Who has loved us, supported us, and served as an incredible father to us for so long.

Seek justice, love mercy, walk humbly with your God. Where have the past 2 years gone? I would like to take some time to give some shout outs to the people who have helped make these past 2 years a meaningful experience. To my home church communities in Hannibal.

8230;learning to grow where I am planted. I Am Not the Melody. When I was a missionary 2012-2014. This is my motto for life. One season ends, another begins. 8220;What makes a weed a weed and a wildflower a wildflower? .

Follow my service as a US-2 missionary. Social Movements and Social Holiness. A few months ago I was asked to participate in Youth2015, the national gathering for United Methodist Youth groups. I was able to share my experience working for Workers Interfaith Network, and local movements in Memphis. It was an honor to share stories about workers who are standing up to fight for a living wage and union representation. As racism makes overt and covert decla.

I once was blind but now I see. Christmas in Bethlehem, Then and Now. When I speak of my Christmas plans, the very fact that it will be spent in Bethlehem is met with expressed envy. Poster calling for the end of the Separation Barrier and a bundle of balloons being sold in Manger Square. People enjoying a concert at the Christmas Concert Stage outside the Church of the Nativity. In Bethlehem, the celebration contin.

Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Summer season at the Seminar Program begins with 4 seminar groups.