Every Wednesday and Friday morning I go on a feeding to Angono. In this place there are hundreds of people who have been forced to live under a basketball court due to recent flooding. They live with sheets as walls with little to no privacy. Hardly any comfort. Every time that I go to Angono I visit with the same family with my teammate Jeremy (here is a link to his awesome blog about this family: http://philippines.adventures.org/?filename=7776). The first time I met them I was so utterly broken hearted about the way they have to live. Dirt covers everything, even the precious...

Every Wednesday and Friday morning I go on a feeding to Angono. In this place there are hundreds of people who have been forced to live under a basketball court due to recent flooding. They live with sheets as walls with little to no privacy. Hardly any comfort. Every time that I go to Angono I visit with the same family with my teammate Jeremy (here is a link to his awesome blog about this family: http://philippines.adventures.org/?filename=7776). The first time I met them I was so utterly broken hearted about the way they have to live. Dirt covers everything, even the precious...

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...

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...

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...

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...