THE BATH OF THE BIRDS

by Samuel Right  before lunch I took a look at the birds on top of their cage, puffed up like two cuddly clouds, looking longingly at their empty bird bath.  It was plain to me what they wanted on this hot summer day: a bath. After I set all the plates and cups, I walked [...]

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OLYMPICS PYRAMID

by Nathan     About 500 excited people were watching us carefully.  Three of my big, strong friends got on their hands and knees on the dirty ground.  Two more thinner friends got on the big guys.  I climbed on top.  I almost stood up four feet above the concrete soccer field and held up a [...]

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MUSIC TO MY EARS

Excuse me while I momentarily slip out of “missionary mode” and enter “mom mode.”  One Sunday this month I had more chances than normal to be extremely proud of my musical boys, as I heard them play their harp & guitar three different times. #1: Together they accompanied the worship time at church. #2: They’d [...]

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GOOD WORKS

“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”  Ephesians 2:10 We continually struggle to know what to do and what not to do, whom to help and whom to deny, when to say “yes” and when to say “no.”  This verse [...]

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HUMMINGBIRD RESCUE

While preparing for kids’ club one Saturday morning at the church building we found a hummingbird clinging to a curtain, so weak it could barely move.  Dan gently gathered it up in his hat and we took it home where we tilted its tiny head onto a plate of sugar water.  Very gradually it began [...]

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BROKEN HARP STRING

We mourned with friends this month following the sudden deaths of two women only a week apart: a good friend in a rural community and our neighbor. We took the boys and their instruments out to the village to play for the family who’d lost their wife/mom.  A harp string broke as Samuel & Nathan [...]

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