on the edge of ordinary

Tomorrow we are catching trains to our first in-person overnight mission conference in four years. It's 550km north of here, but we get ...

We had online conference meetings for our mission from Tuesday to Thursday last week. Usually an in-person conference is five days long and ...

This year's theme: "Leaving a Lasting Legacy". Though it's left me pondering whether thinking about leaving a legacy mi...

Last year this week I wrote a post called Empty Chairs about the annual missionary women prayer and fellowship event that I went to yesterd...

The four of the last five days have been busy and involved lots of talking and listening. Thursday I drove a van full of women to a day ...

Thank you for the support and prayers for our family after yesterday's post. We scaled back our expectations on "tourism" toda...

We were at an OMF Japan Conference most of the week. We had a guest speaker and his wife, missionaries in Japan with another mission. I was ...

The last four Saturdays running have been spent at wrestling meets. Getting up before the sun, driving, sitting and waiting, watching, yelli...

The retreat was great. But haven't I already said that? Let me see if I can figure out why it was so great. 1. The speaker was really...

Just a short note to let you know I'm back safely! The driving went pretty well. We only got lost for a little while on the way up, but ...

Somehow I find writing this blog daily is much easier than taking a break and then picking it up again. The last four days have been full an...

Hi from the mountain. I made it safely through falling snow on Tuesday. Narrowly missed having to put snow chains on the car. The next morni...

We've just spent three nights in the wilderness with friends. Four adults and five kids. No electricity (except in the showers and toile...