“Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.” ― C.S. Lewis, Miracles This is the sixteenth Compassion Bloggers trip. The very first was in 2008! Man, time flies. Thousands of children have been sponsored since then because hundreds of thousands have read our posts from around the… Read More
Archive Tag: Kenya
Seven Years
Seven years ago, I sloshed my way through the muddy serpentine paths of the Methare slum to meet Eliud. Eliud was a dapper Kenyan teenager then. He was wearing his school uniform, a seafoam green tie and gray sweater. His home was cobbled together from wood and rusting corrugated metal… Read More
Returning To Kenya
I’m headed to Kenya tomorrow with Compassion Bloggers! I was in Kenya 7 years ago. Many of you followed along then. Remember when I met a boy named Eliud? He was 18 then, orphaned, living in a house made of wood and cardboard, in the second largest slum in all… Read More
How To Pray For The Afraid, Pressured & Inadequate
For years I traveled the world with (mostly) women I met on the internet. I oversaw Compassion Bloggers – taking groups of great writers overseas to see the ministry of Compassion International and then write about it in hopes of seeing thousands of children sponsored. Most of the bloggers I… Read More
Their New Normal
On the plane ride to Kenya – or maybe it was a stop along the way – Kristen told me why she lived where she did – how she had been placed in suburbia to minister to the community there. How she wasn’t going to leave any time soon. On… Read More
Raise The Roof
This is Jonathan. Or at least that’s what he asked us Americans to call him. Jonathan’s a Maasai, and lives mostly as his people have for hundreds of years in Kenya. He eats only beef, blood and milk, for instance. The entire tribe has been on the Atkins diet for… Read More