Elliot Has A Birthday Party
Elliot turned six today. He’s pretty excited about it. I was pushed into an existential crisis, just like last time he had a birthday.
Family Experiences
We Survived Our Bush Orientation →
Every new Samaritan Aviation family goes through a “Bush Orientation” which sounds like a formal thing, but it’s not.
Cultural Expectations
Ride Along On A Visit To The Haus Sik →
After we fly patients in, we all take turns going and visiting them. Come with our family on a trip to the local "Haus Sik."
Haus Sik
Death Warmed Over is Better Than Death Served Cold, But It's Still Worrisome. →
Janice picks up some strange tropical disease and Adi gets stitches which causes me to muse about suffering and its effects.
Being Sick
Rejoice! For Our Visas Were Lost But Have Been Found Again. →
An unlikely series of events and a needle-in-a-haystack search helps us find our visas and passports.
God Worked Things Out
It Won't Take Long →
Traveling is getting easier with each generation, thus losing its ability to shape our character. Maybe this is why our nation is in a moral decline.
Christmas
Acculturating at Mission Training International →
I used to think that the only preparation you needed to be a missionary was an appetite for misery and a one way plane ticket.
Cultural Expectations
Colorado Trip: Episode 5 →
We finally arrive at MTI but not before visiting some cliff dwellings and driving up a mountain pass while my children give me driving advice.
MTI
Colorado Trip: Episode 2 →
Featuring the St. Louis Arch and not much else.
Colorado Trip
Fishing, And Other Bad Behaviors →
Immediately bait buckets, lead weights, and sharp hooks fly through the air while full grown men throw themselves on something that's slicker than a greased pig.
Fishing
We Went To Zambia (And Came Back Again) →
The whole family travels to Zambia to help a mission organization work on their airplanes.
Traveling With Children
Nearer My God To Thee →
She stood on the brakes as I sat in the passenger seat, dug my fingernails into the dashboard, and hummed Nearer My God to Thee.
Minivans