I have always been a lover of the outdoors and of my neighborhood but, because of my busy schedule, I have only been able to get to know a few people around my community. On Sundays, my family usually takes…
You saw the above picture in your email or in a social media post, and we asked if you knew what it was. What you were seeing was a part of this photo: The Turkana women wear these vibrant beads…
*Guest blog post reprinted with permission from the The Chalmers Center At this point, 2020 has become a cliché—a year of collective trauma and upheaval likely to be remembered by many of us as one of the hardest years of…
Being a mom that has just sent her first child to college, I know what it feels like to want to make sure she is prepared. We took evaluation of this 2 years before making a “to-do” list of talks,…
Sometimes it’s hard to feel thankful. When you lose your job, your health, or a loved one to an incurable disease, grief can feel suffocating. Just like a fire that dies without oxygen, gratitude often gets extinguished when pain and…
The times in which we are currently living are creating more lonely people. COVID-19, the fear of catching COVID, civil unrest, election uncertainty, churches and restaurants limiting seating, and other gathering spaces altogether closed; these have created spaces in our…
You saw the above picture in your email or in a social media post, and we asked if you knew what it was… What you were seeing was a piece of this photo: It’s a DIY water filter! This photo…
My heart skips a beat when I look at my kids. Time is going by so fast, and they are growing up right before my eyes. I feel an urgency to hurry up and teach them everything they need to…
Undergirding the U.S. office Working in the operations department for Bright Hope, I spend a lot of time behind the scenes or under the scenes. “Undergirding the U.S. office” is a term that my team uses quite often to describe our efforts to provide a good foundation…
There’s a clever lesson, often taught to children, that poses the following question: would you rather have a penny that doubles every day for thirty days, or a million dollars right now? Most kids will opt for the million now,…