Author: Adventures

Neglected Royalty

Isaac. A little boy in the Philippines. Isaac is “special.” This little boy absorbs all the attention he can get. He wanders the streets of the community by himself, no friends, no playmates…searching for hugs from white missionaries or any kind of attention from anyone. Isaac gets picked on. Bullied. Rejected. Ignored by his peers. Isaac goes unnoticed, maybe even unwanted by the community itself. The excuse: “Isaac is special.” His safe place is school where his teachers will love him and protect him. School is where he can maybe do everything his peers do...

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Neglected Royalty

Isaac. A little boy in the Philippines. Isaac is “special.” This little boy absorbs all the attention he can get. He wanders the streets of the community by himself, no friends, no playmates…searching for hugs from white missionaries or any kind of attention from anyone. Isaac gets picked on. Bullied. Rejected. Ignored by his peers. Isaac goes unnoticed, maybe even unwanted by the community itself. The excuse: “Isaac is special.” His safe place is school where his teachers will love him and protect him. School is where he can maybe do everything his peers do...

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I do; yet Father says I am not

This isn’t much of a blog, but for those of you wondering how I have been doing or those wondering what a mission trip might make you feel, this is something I wrote up. I fail Yet I am not failure; I forget who I am Yet Abba calls me by name; I think I am ‘good’ and holy Yet only the Father is; I choose not to love Yet I am still chosen; I turn away, choose my own path Yet He lies with me, walks with me, pursues me; I forget to live in Gospel Yet I am still included; I forget my First Love Yet I am His; Grace I do not choose Yet I am defined by His; I work for...

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I do; yet Father says I am not

This isn’t much of a blog, but for those of you wondering how I have been doing or those wondering what a mission trip might make you feel, this is something I wrote up. I fail Yet I am not failure; I forget who I am Yet Abba calls me by name; I think I am ‘good’ and holy Yet only the Father is; I choose not to love Yet I am still chosen; I turn away, choose my own path Yet He lies with me, walks with me, pursues me; I forget to live in Gospel Yet I am still included; I forget my First Love Yet I am His; Grace I do not choose Yet I am defined by His; I work for...

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Guitars, Girls, and a Game of Jacks

     SO…reading the title to this blog may leave you wondering why I’m writing about guitars, girls and jacks…just trust me. Over the past month in the Philippines, I’ve had the opportunity to come into a home for more than 30 orphaned and abused girls and play guitar, fellowship, and worship with them. Not many male figures have came here because of some of the trust issues that the girls have with men, so I was extremely nervous the first time I came into the home along with the girls on my Passport team. All I had with me was my guitar, my worship...

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A Drop In the Bucket

Finding joy in immense poverty found here in the Philippines can be tough sometimes. The other day I was introduced to a twelve year old girl named Crystelle. a local pastor’s wife had met Crystelle a couple of days earlier at a feeding, noticed she looked malnourished, and followed her home to meet her family. Two days later, Andy (one of the guys on my team) and I were invited to take some groceries to the family and meet them. We parked the car outside of a gated community and walked through a hole in the fence into a squatter’s village. The further we walked back into this...

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