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“So, how does it feel on your birthday?” I didn’t know how to respond when someone asked me this last week on my birthday. To be honest, I felt older, that’s all. What are birthdays...
Competition. The word evokes a whole spectrum of emotions like nervousness, envy and pride. When I think of what competition looks like, sporting events and the honour winners bring to their...
“One man built his house on the sand … It crashed! It crashed!” What followed this bizarre outcry were more words I could not understand, not even as a special needs teacher. My student drew...
Up till five years ago, I was cynical on the purpose of mission trips. I knew it was a commandment in Scripture that spanned as far back as the account of Jonah in the Old Testament, and was even...
Earlier this year, my schedule looked like this: Work, weekly curriculum planning for English enrichment, monthly volunteer reading to two pre-schoolers. In church, I have served as an usher for the...
I recall having “Missions Month” in Sunday School as a child. Each week’s Sunday School lesson included a brief exposure to a different culture, followed by the constraints the people...
I spent all my free time finishing work for a church missions project. I was exhausted, irritable, and just wanted to hide from the world. I text Sarah*, a close friend from church, informing her...
Friends tell me they’re in a certain field of work in obedience to God’s calling. In secular vocations, this was commonly heard for careers that required specific skills or fields of...
My first exposure to Christianity was when I attended Sunday School, age 4. I said the sinner’s prayer at age 7 after learning that people who did not follow Jesus would be thrown into hell....