I stood there looking at the ground fifteen feet below me with a sinking feeling. I would have to climb down again and admit defeat. My heart fell. Our family lived 420 miles outside of the capital city of Kinshasa when we were growing up in Congo. We loved to visit because there were other children to play with and wonderful food to eat at the American Club. We called … [Read more...] about When Our Need For Security Holds Us Back
My missionary kid experience
Where I Can Always Go
"Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress."Psalm 71:3 (NIV)I was fifteen years old and did not want to return to Congo (then Zaire). There were going to be some fearful changes in my life when I stepped back on African soil. School had already started a week earlier by the time we arrived in the capital city. The mission … [Read more...] about Where I Can Always Go
The Way Maker
"I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them."Isaiah 42:16 (New International Version)The scorching Congo sun was well on its way to sinking behind the Ntsiangobo hill on the west side of our mission station as I … [Read more...] about The Way Maker
The Narrow Gate
"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few."Matthew 7:13-14 (English Standard Version)On March 9, 1904, the ninth child was born to a couple in the small town of Shamokin, Pennsylvania. They named her Marcella. She … [Read more...] about The Narrow Gate
Seeing The One Who Is Invisible
"I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!" Philippians 3:10-11 (NLT)A little girl was born in the 1920s whose mother's heart beat with God's own. Geneva watched her mother, Mrs. Haller, devote her life to the care of Congo's … [Read more...] about Seeing The One Who Is Invisible
End of the Famine
"To you I call, O LORD my Rock; do not turn a deaf ear to me. For if you remain silent, I will be like those who have gone down to the pit." Psalm 28:1 (NIV) (Mail day at Nkara-Ewa, courtesy of the MAF airplane) We were starved for news from the United States in Congo. Nothing was more precious to us than a letter from a beloved friend or relative. Our favorite days were those when we … [Read more...] about End of the Famine
