Series Archive: ‘My Trip To Uganda’

One For All

How big is your bedroom?  Mine’s about 12 x 15. Your closet?  Probably as big as a house. Yesterday we broke into small groups of four and visited the homes of children cared for by Compassion International.  Over the open sewers, through the market, down alleyways, until we reached this house for seven: A mother and her… Continue Reading »

Small Enough

I don’t look up at the stars. Sometime when I was a kid I remember sitting around a camp fire with a bunch of guys telling stories, burning marshmallows within an inch of edible, and poking the logs with a stick until the last scrap of wood was nothing but cold gray charcoal.  I had to… Continue Reading »

Ugandan For Toy

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We Made It

This post is mostly for my wife since I can’t call home.  I made it, Becky.  I’m in out hotel’s lobby in Uganda. More than thirty hours of travel and we’re finally here.  We’re all wiped and ready to go to bed.  It’s 2:30 Uganda time (5:30 PM Nashville time) and we’re still up trying to… Continue Reading »

Gathering Of The Geeks In Chicago

We’re almost all here, gathered at our gate in Chicago and, as luck would have it, beside a Starbucks (I think Carlos prayed) .  The level of geekery in our general vicinity is off the geekery scale – just past “sleeps between Star Wars sheets after a long day of playing Dungeons and Dragons while rockin’… Continue Reading »

Judy’s God

Twenty-five of us surrounded Judy’s hospital bed last night.  I stayed back by the door while Becky, who actually knows Judy, slipped through the crowd to hold her hand and talk a little. It must be strange, I thought, to stare up at a ceiling pondering your life and approaching death with no soundtrack but the… Continue Reading »

About Shaun

About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
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