” Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it. –Erwin Lutzer “
Lending a Voice…
Life in Madagascar. It’s difficult to explain. It’s beautiful and it’s ugly. It’s triumph and it’s defeat. It’s growth and it’s tearing down. It’s truth and it’s lies. In these ways, it’s really no different than anywhere else in the world. One of the big...
Tropical Cyclone Hellen
(11:30am Monday morning- Madagascar time) If you can't see it... we're that massive island (the world's 4th largest in fact) underneath this storm! Our city is the "pin mark" in the NW corner of the picture. Cyclone Hellen is building in intensity and is now a...
SMC Sings…
A few weeks ago we started singing with the ladies before and after our class sessions. It's amazing how singing breaks the darkness and the staleness of the air and replaces it with life and refreshment. We're singing about the great love of Christ and singing...
Little by little at the Sarobidy Maternity Center…
It's been really good to be back to work at the Sarobidy Maternity Center. To be with these women, to build relationships with them, to hear their stories of triumph and defeat, to rejoice with them and mourn with them, to laugh with them, sing with them and pray with...
This girl…
This little chick-a-dee of ours just turned 8. How is that even possible? I can vividly remember the excited anticipation when she was still in my womb and the moment she entered the world... our hearts and lives were forever changed and we wouldn't have it any...
Voandalana…
Say you live in sunny Santa Barbara and you travel to Maine to visit friends and you bring back some still kickin' lobster for your friends back home. That's a voandalana. Or perhaps you live in Arizona and you're traveling to California for a vacay and when you...





