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You’d Do the Same for Me

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Written by Leslie Verner April 1, 2018 community hospitality outreach

We’ve been invited to a church member’s home for a meal just three times in three years. As an accidental experiment in the Colorado city where we moved three years ago, we visited 17 churches, landing at 2 for about a year, 3 for a month each, and visited the others ...
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Hospitality: Entertaining or Healing?

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Written by Heidi Wheeler April 1, 2018 healers healing hospitality

As faculty for a local university’s nursing program, I guide student nurses into the role of professional nurse. One of my greatest challenges is that today’s students are afraid to be seen as anything less than perfect—by their patients, their professors, ...
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Hospitality Flipped Upside Down

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Written by Sarah Quezada April 1, 2018 hospitality international outreach outreach

I edged to the front of my folding chair, bobbing and weaving my head to find a view through the heads in front of me.

“Do you have a child there?” an older woman sitting next to me asked with a slight accent as she ...
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Hope, Resolve, and Leading with Grace

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Written by Ronne Rock March 1, 2018 ambition international welfare of women Ronne Rock women and the church

Not long ago, I found myself walking with a small team of missionaries along the rubble-filled streets of Mathare, the second largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya, with a population of more than half-million people. We stepped over ditches filled with raw sewage and held ...
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Was Blind, but Now I See: My Sankofa Story

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Written by Nilwona Nowlin January 31, 2018 Africa Nilwona Nowlin racism slavery

Sankofa is a word from the Akan people of West Africa (primarily Ghana and the Ivory Coast). It is both a word in the Twi language and one of over a hundred Adinkra symbols used by the Ashanti people (one of many Akan subgroups). ...
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Healing from Race-Based Trauma

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Written by Sheila Wise Rowe January 31, 2018 post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD racism reconciliation Sheila Rowe

When my family and I moved back home to America from South Africa, we were not prepared for what would greet us upon our return. The dead of winter in Boston with its frigid temperatures, gray skies, and snow were the least of them. We also noticed that the social climate had changed. Yes, our family ...
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How Contagious Is Our Faith?

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Written by Nicole T. Walters January 31, 2018 Coptic Church diversity Nicole T. Walters

We couldn’t understand but a few words of the mass but the beautiful, flowing Arabic was music to our ears, rising up to the heavens along with the sweet-smelling incense. Not only was the language new to our ears, having only studied it for a couple months, but this was the first mass we’d ever ...
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On Letting Go

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Written by Janna Lynas September 1, 2017 adoption Janna Lynas parenting

“I don’t deserve him.”

Just 10 days ago, I said these words, watching my youngest son pedal away on his red bike, thick brown arms looped through his favorite safety green backpack.

Waiting on Island Time

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Written by Kelli Worrall September 1, 2017 adoption grief Kelli Worrall parenting

“Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

–William Faulkner

 

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A Promise, a Prayer, and an Irresistible Smile

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Written by Meadow Rue Merrill September 1, 2017 adoption disabled child international adoption Meadow Rue Merrill

“I don’t know if I can marry you,” I tell my boyfriend as we snuggle on the couch in his parents’ living room. “If I do, you have to promise to let me go to Africa, alone if I have to. I don’t know when, and I don’t know why. But I know God has a plan ...
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Bittersweet

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Written by Suzanne Burden September 1, 2017 exchange student infertility Suzanne Cross Burden

I write the word bittersweet on a white napkin, pushing it across the table toward our exchange student. His eyes absorb the word as he rolls it around on his tongue, his French accent ...
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A Cake, the Klan, a Senator’s Stand

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Written by CarleneByron August 1, 2017 Carlene Byron women leaders

Once again, it was Winnie and me behind the bake sale table, while all the real excitement of the annual plant sale swirled through adjacent rooms.

Winnie is a whiz at organizing the diverse, nearly random donations from friends of the land trust. Arrayed around us on three cloth-covered tables ...
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Momae’s Kitchen

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Written by Sheila Wise Rowe August 1, 2017 courage meals Sheila Wise Rowe single motherhood strength

When Momae moved up north to Massachusetts to join Daddy, she brought her most precious possessions stuffed inside my granddaddy’s big brown leather suitcase. She also brought recipes handed down from my Nana, some hastily scribbled on paper, and others committed to memory. Daddy was an ensign ...
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Bermuda Family Meals & Jesus

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Written by Tatyana Claytor August 1, 2017 Bermuda family Tatyana Claytor

We were up so early that it was still dark outside. In typical Florida style, the sky was foggy and heavy with dampness. The drive to the airport in my 12-year-old mind was magical; we were setting off on an adventure and moving to Bermuda.

This was new for me because though I was born there ...
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