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"What are we doing?" The simple phrase that Moose (leader on the trip also a missionary in Africa for 7 years) asked us all as we sit in the terminal waiting to board our plane. It breaks my heart. He is leaving a place, a place which he calls home. If it weren't for a few simple luxuries in the states I may consider asking the same question. What are we doing? This trip has changed my life. I now sit on a British Airways flight counting down the hours until I reach the states yet again. This tr… Continue

One thing I am struck by about the Kingdom of God is how non-indivual it is (that has to be terrible grammar), but instead it is so much bigger than one individual. Months ago, me and three other AU students began on a project to bring about restoration to the city of Anderson. After years of lay-offs and abandonment by the auto industry and stuggle with the economy, Anderson has been left in a degrated state. Just this past Monday, approximately 25 group leaders of this project met to pray for… Continue

“They have ears but do not hear, and they have eyes but do not see.”My whole life, I have lived in privilege. I am a white American middle-class male. I grew up in a rich suburb of big city and went to a wealthy public school. Everyday I drink fresh filtered water and eat genetically altered foods and sleep in my own bed in my own room. Some days I shower multiple times and wear multiple sets of clothes and eat multiple meals and drive multiple cars and watch multiple TVs. It’s interesting thoug… Continue

I recently wrote a prayer for a TAPP event where people from all different places in life will be once again exposed to the realities of the AIDS pandemic and the different worlds that exist because of these structures. I thought it wouldn't hurt to post it on here either. Hope it is worthwhile. Friend. I pray that as you leave today, you continue your journey to be a person rooted in energizing memories and summoned by a radical hope in a God that does not see AIDS as a fact of life, but a… Continue

phronesis ...greek word best described as a pattern of thinking, acting, and feeling... the lens through which one sees things... an attitude or mindset... In Philippians, Paul uses this word almost as a central theme of the prison letter. In my Bible (NASB) it is usually translated to mean mind or attitude... such as in Phil 2... we are to have the same phronesis as Christ Jesus (attitude)... or where he says, "make my joy complete by being of the same phronesis (mind)" The past year or two, I… Continue

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