I returned from my first short term mission trip on Saturday, July 19 at 2 pm.  See previous post for background.  The trip went off without a hitch, other than the virus I apparently contracted from one of the 250 new friends I made on the flight home.  You know you've traveled a long way when you have three meals on the same plane.  End to end, it was a 36 hour marathon each way.    Our work...

After my wife and I reluctantly agreed to accompany our fifth and final child on his senior class trip to Cancun at Spring Break, I vowed that our next trip abroad would be missional in nature.  Shortly thereafter, my good friend, Bob Pearson, founder of Horizon International, invited us to accompany him and a small group of supporters to Zimbabwe in July.  Severe knee problems prevented Elaine f...