Brazil, Day 1: Take-off!

Well, today is the day that I left my United States for Brazil! It’s so CrAzY to think about all that has happened since Jim Leonard first asked me to go. Raise support, buy stuff, learn a couple words in Portuguese.

I was at camp last week, training some of the new staff and saying good-bye to my summer ministry for the last 10 summers. But now the time has come to go to Brazil, and it has been Read Full Post

It’s Called a Phone…

So, in Canada when someone picks up a phone, dials a number, and uses the phone to communicate with someone else, the action is referred to as “phoning.” If I needed to contact someone with my phone, I would phone him.

But in the United States, we refer to the same action as “calling.” If I need to contact someone with my phone, I would call him. Read Full Post

A Dream of My Country

The other night I had a dream. It was a dream about my beloved country, the United States of America. It was a bittersweet dream…

It was bittersweet because it was also a dream about me…perhaps a nightmare of sorts. It was an uncomfortable dream that woke me up to reality while I slept comfortably. It was…well, the best way to describe it is just to recount it. Read Full Post