True Christmas Spirit
The true spirit of Christmas. That’s the topic that World Vision asked me to blog about. From today through December 20th, as a part of World Vision’s 12 Blogs of Christmas, more than 20 bloggers from various walks of life will be posting their own ideas about the “true spirit of Christmas” on their blogs [...]
A T-SHIRT GIVEAWAY: Win a Jedidiah Clothing designed t-shirt!
GIVEN is brand new clothing line designed by the creative people at Jedidiah Clothing on behalf of World Vision. And as a longtime World Vision supporter, I’ve been given the opportunity to give one lucky (blessed?) blog reader the opportunity to win a GIVEN t-shirt of their choice! And the t-shirt designs are pretty awesome. [...]
What one thing would YOU give up?!
Elias and I didn’t go to Starbucks this morning. Elias didn’t get his usual donut and chocolate soy milk and I didn’t get my scone and coffee. Any time he and I go to SBux our bill ends up being around $9. But rather than giving our $10 to Starbucks this morning, we did something [...]
VIVA BOLIVIA!
All photos were taken by me. Hope you enjoy.
Culture shock & emotional breakdown (in the cereal aisle)
This is a guest post by Nish Weiseth They said this would happen upon reentry. The shattering. Erik and Rowan picked me up at the airport. Smiles plastered wide, I embraced fully, leaned my weight into theirs and became part of the family again. Rowan’s delight in me, my return, brought back thoughts of children [...]
Culture shock & emotional breakdown (in the cereal aisle)
This is a guest post by Nish Weiseth They said this would happen upon reentry. The shattering. Erik and Rowan picked me up at the airport. Smiles plastered wide, I embraced fully, leaned my weight into theirs and became part of the family again. Rowan’s delight in me, my return, brought back thoughts of children [...]
A Father Slapped His Daughter’s Face (and it was my fault)
In order to get the bus up the hill, the driver asked us to get out and wait on the other side of the grassy knoll. Camera around my neck, I looked around for something or someone to point my lens at. Three small Bolivian children stood a few feet away, watching me. I walked [...]
A Father Slapped His Daughter’s Face (and it was my fault)
In order to get the bus up the hill, the driver asked us to get out and wait on the other side of the grassy knoll. Camera around my neck, I looked around for something or someone to point my lens at. Three small Bolivian children stood a few feet away, watching me. I walked [...]
Seeing things in black & white…
Sponsor a child from Bolivia here. Change a kid’s life. All photos by Matthew Paul Turner for World Vision
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LIVE from Bolivia!
At 10 p.m. EST, World Vision’s Bolivia bloggers will be chatting live! If you have any questions for us, tweet me your inquiry and add the tag #WVBB! Hope you’ll join us for the conversation… Watch live streaming video from worldvisionusa at livestream.com
Social Justice Exhaustion: Far too many of us are sick and tired…
Can I be honest? I think many of us who are engaged in the blogging world (Christian or otherwise) are suffering from a disease. Not a disease like HIV or diabetes. Maybe it’s not even a disease. Maybe it’s a disorder or a mental or emotional illness. Perhaps it’s some sort of spiritual discrepancy. Or [...]
Hope should be tangible…
Because this kid could hear, World Vision managed to secure him his very first hearing aid… …And he couldn’t stop smiling. Because this little guy also suffered hearing impairment, he too, received his first hearing aid for one of his ears because of World Vision… Because this special needs child can’t walk or talk or [...]
A BLOG POST: This little girl might change your life #WVBB
Her little hands held the Bible like she needed every word to be true, like she’d seen enough pain and felt enough heartache in the ten years that she’d been alive to know that there must be more. Her fingers turned the Bible’s pages like they knew with certainty that this couldn’t be all there [...]
'Daddy, why you going to Bah-ivia?' #WVBB
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