It’s been 5 days since leaving Haiti after my first mission trip. Since returning, my body has been physically sick. Headaches, nausea, coughing and general discomfort. It’s always a nuisance to be sick. It stops … Read More

Over the past 6 days, many of you prayed for the FPSM team who travelled to Haiti. You may have prayed for productivity on the chicken coop and the community gardens, successful meetings with Haitian … Read More

On Wednesday, November 2nd, a team of 11 people from St. Augustine will be driving down to Ft. Pierce, Florida.  On Thursday, November 3rd, they will depart from Ft. Pierce and fly to Cap Haitien, … Read More

Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he … Read More

Last fall I had the opportunity to complete a counseling internship at a city jail.  Day in and day out, I heard tragic story after tragic story, sometimes even eight stories a day.  Stories of sexual abuse, prostitution, rape, and drug violence … Read More

How do we make sense of devastation? How do we create any sense of understanding so that we have a context by which to answer our children’s impossible questions about the nature of God in … Read More