by Elizabeth McDonald
Like many homes, my parents gifted my sister and me the responsibility of doing chores around the house growing up. These chores ranged from vacuuming to taking out the trash, plus many others. We would usually do these tasks together, and when I look back, some of my...
by Benjamin Jr. Amoah
When I was in college, I worked at an Adventist summer camp each year to help with paying for my tuition. Each morning, we would have staff worship, where one of the staff would share a devotional thought to kick us off for the day. On one of the mornings,...
by Raewyn Orlich
I was 21, had recently graduated from La Sierra University, and was serving at my first church as an assistant pastor. They were in their early 80s and had served the church as a ministerial couple for almost three times as long as I had been alive. Having no...
by Iki Taimi
“Hello?!” I sat quietly in my dorm room hoping that he would eventually go away but he just kept incessantly knocking and calling my name. My junior year in high school the campus Chaplain, Pastor Bill Kerasoma, who we endearingly called PK, visited me in my dorm room...
by Joy Fehr
“It’s easy to think of us as needing Jesus, but it’s pretty scandalous to think that Jesus would need us…” (Erickson, 183). Last night Cornelius and I watched an episode of Call the Midwife. The Poplar community rescues four severely neglected children who are living...
by Barbara Djordjevic
I was one of ten eager travelers who strained our necks as we drove into El Chaltén village. The object of our search was a pile of granite rocks. It was not just any pile of rocks. This one was considered worthy enough to prompt us to board planes and fly many long...
