missionary life
celebrating Mother’s Day in a country other than your passport country
Mother’s Day is celebrated in 40 countries around the world. In every country, this day is celebrated solely for the purpose of honoring and giving appreciation to their mothers. However, it is surprisingly celebrated differently in most of these countries. […]
Visual Campaigns that Change the World One Country at a Time
PROOF: Media For Social Justice “The real strategy around what we do with them, is really either to get people to have policy change, or attitude change, or education. In the Congo, for example, we sought to give women the […]
International Human Rights Organization Dives Deep into Local Lives to Dig Up Injustice
PROOF: Media For Social Justice “Lots of the exhibitions we create, are real peoples voices and testimonies, and I think they’re very powerful and able to touch people in a way that anonymous articles don’t have the power to do.” – […]
Where Everybody Is: TCKs and the Twilight Zone
No matter what country I was living in while growing up, there was one television show that was constant and served as “comfort TV”: Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone and it so happens that the first episode touches on […]
VISUAL: Top 10 Languages Spoken Around the World
This infographic shows the distribution of the top 10 languages spoken around the globe. Mandarin Chinese is spoken by the greatest amount of people around the world, nearing 1 billion. It is interesting to note that two of the top […]
AUDIO: FIND YOUR TRUE SELF AND DON’T BE AFRAID TO BE IT WITH KARISSA SORRELL
In today’s episode Karissa discusses how she learned to be comfortable with herself despite having felt like a chameleon for a big part of her life. She is an ESOL educator, writer and parent. I absolutely love her […]
Guatemalan Mission: You can’t save Valencia
Ordinary Missionaries The stories of George And Vonda Sisneros as they work in the village of El Rosario, Guatemala “You can’t save them. You can’t save Venancia.” I got a call from my friend Mara on Friday afternoon. Mara is […]
Guatemalan Mission: That’s their entire world
Ordinary Missionaries The stories of George And Vonda Sisneros as they work in the village of El Rosario, Guatemala “In essence, that’s the size of their entire world” Venancia is not doing well. She seemed to be getting better and […]
