I don’t even know where to begin. The past two weeks have gone by in a blur and I’m still not sure when life will get back to normal. The whirlwind began as Batman, Kaptain …
This is probably the one time of the year that I REALLY miss being in the States. October has always been my favorite month. I love the crisp chill …
Hi, I just wanted to share a quick note about my recent weekend trip to Singapore with my friend Julie (she and her husband are students here at Asia-Pacific …
Foam shapes scattered across the table top, smudgy lines marked out by oil pastels and drips and splatters of watercolor all make up the abstract works of art by the children …
Tropical bubble bottles on each chair, leis circling necks, tropical flowers tucked behind ears, little boys with buckets in hand, little girl dropping petals on the ground, Kevin waiting anxiously and Mandy Moore’s …
Such a simple thing you all probably take for granted in your local grocer’s refrigerated section, but something I haven’t managed to track down for the past 19 months. So last night as I was standing at the deli counter at Shopwise waiting for my ham to be sliced, …
“Melissa, you’re getting fat. Everyone knows it…you’re not getting any slimmer.”
While this may be true, I was still a bit surprised to receive this comment as we were standing around talking to people after church today. We have been warned of this cultural difference and other missionaries have joked …
It has been awhile. After waiting six weeks, a guy from PLDT finally showed up at our house today with our modem and I feel like the world is at my fingertips once again. Even though I could write an email or journal entry and then go somewhere …
Earlier this week, I finished the book Always Enough by Rolland & Heidi Baker. In the book, Heidi describes an encounter with God where she experienced the heavenly fire of God falling on her. “I was so hot I literally thought I was going to burn up and …
If you have been keeping up with our journal entries, you will know that we decided to sell our house before we move to the Philippines and have been working on finishing projects around the house for the past month. We completed the fence around our backyard, landscaped, finished painting …