The biggest and most honored tradition at RVA is the Senior Banquet. The junior class writes a play, builds the sets, puts together the music, cooks the food and serves it. It is a massive undertaking, and we have never been a part of it before this year. It was a wonderful success, not so much in the play and the food but in the unity that occurred in the class.
Perhaps the greatest part of it is how people ask...
So many of you have written to tell us that you are praying for Michael, Theresa and their daughter Maureen as he sits unjustly in a jail in Nairobi. Thank you, thank you. It is an encouragement and blessing to us, but it has been an incredible blessing and strength to Theresa. Some of you have sent Scriptures and I’ve printed those out and given them to Theresa who then gives them to Michael. Many times...
Continue ReadingI needed something to help my prayer life go to the next level. I had all sorts of plans and scenarios to make this happen, but God provided a better solution.
I’m teaching driving again.
Long time readers may remember that I taught driver’s ed at RVA in 1999, and that I got closer to Jesus that I ever thought I could. This time seems even MORE tailor-made for me.
Them: What should I do?
Me: To start with, don’t hit that bus.
Them: What...
When your father is the college guidance counselor, you hear lots and lots about different universities. It can make an impact, even if you are only four years old. During a bubble bath, Ben and Kate told me:
Ben: I’m going to Harvard.
Me: Why Harvard?
Ben: I already know how to spell it.
Katie: I’m going to Harvard too.
Me: Why Harvard?
Katie: I already have the shirt.
I marvel at their clarity, and can’t WAIT to read their application essays.
This has been a hard year...
Katie: Getting your hair braided is tough
But the results are worth it
Ben likes going for motorcycle rides with Biggest Brother
And he shows how much he likes it when he gets home
Matthew collected toys for the kids in the hospital this year and enjoys giving them away
JT recovered from his appendix surgery and has worked hard on his photography
We are buying hundreds of tons of maize and beans in anticipation of the beginning of school in January, and our second computer...
Continue ReadingI wish I had good news to share, but I don’t—yet. Theresa and Michael, along with the rest of us here, know that God is in control. God is faithful. But Isaiah 55:8-9 reminds us, “’For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.’”
In God’s plan that is greater than...
I need to begin by sharing an article from this Sunday’s newspaper.
This is a story that might not be found in an American newspaper.
There is an election going on for the new constitution in Kenya. Whenever I am in town, I ask my Kenyan friends what they think. They all have an opinion, and they are all rather passionate about it. The bottom line is that there is a lot at stake, and a lot of emotions behind everything.
The election...
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I have lost over thirty five pounds since I have returned to Kenya. The bad news is that I am still fatter than anytime in my life, except 35 pounds ago.
Many have asked the secret to my dynamic weight loss. I answer that it is a combination of sheer unrelenting discipline, magnificent will power, and various other celebrations of me. I am planning to write a diet book...
