Saturday with my Sister

Crystal and I took our annual trek to take pictures for the family. John-Paul went with us and we just went over to the Samford campus. The beautiful leaves from 2 weeks ago were all gone. But we had fun!

Christmas at DAXKO

Last Friday we took our annual Christmas Picture. This one was my first, of course. But, it was fun-my team leader was Santa!

my heart at home

So we're having a big "Tell It" event at church this weekend. All about ways you can Tell your faith. And I was asked to work the booth for missions this morning in case anyone is interested in the Journeyman program. And it was really neat cause I got to meet some missionaries who I never actually got to meet but that I served with in West Africa. It's not very often that I get to talk to people who actually understand where I've been and what I've done. They knew what I'd been through with the war, struggles I must have had with my bosses, and the harsh life you live in West Africa. And it was like immediately among all those hundreds of people, my heart found home.
Of course, more than one person asked me when I plan to go back on the field-and my answer stays the same-When Jesus lets me go. For now, here I am.

DAXKO Life

Implementation team style.

As a team we get along pretty well and have to work together to figure stuff out quite a bit. One of the things I've been working on is what we call our "Playbook." So we wanted a team pic for the front. And it's a beautiful day here in B'ham so we headed outside.



Nick (acting normal), Amanda, me, and Keith (our team lead)


everybody acting goofy


a great picture-showing everyone's personalities

The Father of Jesus

. . . is NOT the god of Muhammed. But does it really matter what we call Him? How should we share Christ in a culture who's only word for god is "Allah?" How do we tell who God is and what He's done through His son and communicate when there's no other word? And, is it our job to make sure their theology is perfect when they come to Christ, or just speak the truth and allow them to hear the name of Christ and what He's done for us? Can we change thousands of years of people in the Arabic speaking world from using Allah as the name for God, which ever god they worship?

All things that have been going through my mind since the trip. There's was lots of discussion around this topic-lots of people throwing out criticism without any background information. Lots of people saying that the word "Allah" has a bad connotation. But what about the word "God" in our culture. People throw it around all the time, but they don't worship the God we worship. Seems to me its the same thing, but then, what do I know. . .