Twice a day at 11AM and 4PM, all of us at the conference enjoy “tea time.”  We break from our meetings and all go outside where tables of cookies, coffee, and tea are served.  It’s a time to stretch, talk, laugh, and drink.  Kenya was once under British rule, and even after they gained their independence in [...]

I just sat through one of the most powerful and moving times of prayer I’ve ever experienced.  The second and bigger of the two conferences began this afternoon, and after all 100 of us (mostly North Africans) introduced ourselves, the leader of the organization addressed us.  He took us on a fascinating journey of the [...]

The first of two conferences here in Kenya has come to an end.  For three days, I joined 30 other workers as we prayed and strategized how best to help and engage a people-group in North Africa who are marginalized by the world around them and unreached by the gospel of Jesus Christ.  I mostly [...]

I am a changed man, literally.  After three days, I finally got my luggage and was able to change my clothes.  I am so happy, and so too is everyone around me, I’m sure. The round-trip to the Nairobi airport took four hours in a taxi with a young man who didn’t speak English very [...]

I arrived Friday afternoon in Nairobi, Kenya after a 39 hour trip, tired but awestruck by all of the sights and sounds of a country and continent I have never visited before.  Upon arrival in Ethiopia, my final stop before Kenya, I learned that my luggage didn’t come with me to Africa.  Instead, it decided [...]

My son, Taylor, is doing a project on Germany right now.  So, after my day in Germany, I helped him write the following report.  The pictures are ones I took. On Thursday, February 17, 2011, my dad got to do something he’s been waiting over 20 years to do.  He got to spend a day [...]

From 1985-90, I immersed myself in German – not Germany – just German.  I spent 6 years in the classroom learning the language, but until today, I had never visited the country I studied for so long.  Today, though, I am sitting in the heart of Frankfurt enjoying the sights and sounds of a culture [...]