Too Young to Die

by | Mar 30, 2023 | Uncategorized, Weekend Reflections

Leer este blog en español ይህንን ብሎግ በአማርኛ ያንብቡ “Seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty if we are strong” (Psalm 90:10). Honduran women on average live to be about 74.  But what if you live near a garbage dump, where the life expectancy is only 35? Iris, the mother...

A Sister Can Make All the Difference

by | Mar 17, 2023 | Weekend Reflections

Leer este blog en español ይህንን ብሎግ በአማርኛ ያንብቡ When five-year-old Selam transferred to an elite Catholic school in the middle of her first-grade year, she found herself on the outside looking in.  Her new classmates had attended school together since pre-school.  They...

A Second Chance

by | Mar 10, 2023 | Uncategorized, Weekend Reflections

Leer este blog en español ይህንን ብሎግ በአማርኛ ያንብቡ “When they kept on questioning Jesus, He straightened up and said to them, ‘Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.’” John 8:7 Have you ever been given a second chance...

We Need Your Prayers

by | Mar 3, 2023 | Weekend Reflections

Leer este blog en español ይህንን ብሎግ በአማርኛ ያንብቡ I was boarding a plane to Washington, DC, on Thursday when I received a jarring call from one of our team leaders.  She told me that “Freddie” and six of his friends had gone to play soccer on Sunday, and they have been...

Training for Life

by | Feb 24, 2023 | Weekend Reflections

Leer este blog en español ይህንን ብሎግ በአማርኛ ያንብቡ “Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we...