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The Scary, Arduous, Incredible, Adventurous Life Of A Missionary
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239SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Giovanni carried my camera bag so that the weight did not rest on my degenerated disc. My tripod was slung around my shoulder as I trudged along the muddy tribal footpath. I followed Giovanni’s footprints so that it was…

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Time Is To Me A Strange Thing
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193SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” ~King David September has arrived in Manila, Philippines, and I am already hearing Christmas tunes around the city. Which mean time…

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Walk The Line
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64SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Original blog from Elias Popa, Within Reach Global intern: The Seasoned Explorer » Walk The Line. After almost 11 hours ride, we finally made it to the tiny village on the top of the mountains near Vietnam. If the car ride didn’t…

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A Crippled Hero
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64SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List He is an unlikely hero brimming with unassuming nobility. But the reality is, if you were to walk past him on a crowded Chinese sidewalk, you might not recognize it. You would notice him, no doubt, as he hobbled…

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On Chinese Beaches, The Face-Kini Is In Fashion
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284SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I felt like this was something you really needed to know… by BILL CHAPPELL via On Chinese Beaches, The Face-Kini Is In Fashion : The Two-Way : NPR. Chinese beachgoers wear face-kinis in Qingdao, northeast China’s Shandong province. The face…

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A Beggar Kissed Me Today
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164SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List It was a brief transaction, simple, I thought, but much bigger than I may have realized. A glimpse. A moment. I was on my way to the grocery store to buy veggies for my wife when a middle aged…

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Emmanuel In The Midst Of Uncertainty
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157SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This is a blog originally published by my wife, Lorna, in December, 2011. Her writing is always so touching and inspiring because she writes from a deep place of honesty and transparency. I am honored to give you a…

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Where Are You From, Little Girl?
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230SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List My little girl, due in December 2012, is going to be a Third Culture Kid (TCK). She will have traveled around the world before she’s 2. She will speak English, Tagalog and Mandarin before she’s 6 years old. She…

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Noodles And Jesus
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109SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Original blog from Elias Popa, Within Reach Global intern: The Seasoned Explorer » Noodles and Jesus. I was sitting there with Brother C, the man I told you about in an earlier story whose niece had passed away. After 4…

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