Thanks to my friend and traveling companion Doug Patterson for sharing this video of our trip to Russia May 18-28. Doug did a fabulous job of capturing both the highlights of our adventure and the relationships we formed. The bulk of Doug's video is from our time in Ivanovo, but you'll also see footage from … Continue reading Ivanovo 2013 Video (by Doug Patterson)
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From Russia With Love Part 3: Breaking the Cycle
Now that I’ve spent some time relating some general thoughts about my impressions from my recent journey to Russia (see Part 1 and Part 2 of this series as well as my original poem, “Ivanovo, my love” if you need to catch up), I’d like to get down a little more today into the nuts … Continue reading From Russia With Love Part 3: Breaking the Cycle
From Russia With Love Part 2: Love Wins (with a little help from a hockey fan)
It’s now just a little over 36 hours since I arrived home from an amazing adventure to spend some time and hopefully leak a little bit of Jesus into the lives of a group of teenage orphans in the city of Ivanovo in north-central Russia. Even now it’s difficult to articulate the experience of being … Continue reading From Russia With Love Part 2: Love Wins (with a little help from a hockey fan)
A Mother’s Day Letter from the Archives
Since today is Mother's Day, and since I've fallen behind on new content here at The Awesomeness Conspiracy, I decided to dig into the archives and re-post an article from Mother's Day 2011. I wrote the following "Letter To Mom" as a sermon I delivered to the congregation at First United Methodist Church in Williamstown, … Continue reading A Mother’s Day Letter from the Archives
A Minute Ago
A minute ago everything happened all at once.A minute ago I came kicking, bawling, gasping into the air full of questions and answers.A minute ago I made my first friend in a playpen on her mom’s porch speaking languages we didn’t know. We’re still friends because we remember what we said in a playpen on … Continue reading A Minute Ago
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