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The Cry for Submission: Letter from the Editor by Emily Fales
August 1, 2008
Dear Friends and Family, Even though you are receiving this in August, I am writing this just a little over a week after coming back from Bolivia and Peru. Thank you so much for praying for me and for supporting these travels. Unfortunately, Jose Garcia was not able to travel with me. He has not…
A Season of Laying Down Roots
Dear Friends, Two years ago, while I was at home visiting family and friends in Kansas, my home church had a night of prayer and prophesy over my life. They do this almost every time that I am home, and it brings fruit and direction to my life consistently all year long. I…
August Prayer Letter
Dear Friends, We are really enjoying our summer season. The weather has been beautiful: hot in the days and cool in the nights. We have begun different activities for the kids. We are doing various discussions on drug abuse and addiction, STD's, and domestic violence and abuse. The kids also chose to participate in various…
Giving it Away
July 15, 2008 Dear Friends, Last night Brittany and I cooked up our very first banana pepper from our garden. As I plucked the lone pepper from the small plant that has seen more than its fair share of rabbits, I very gladly noted that grain offerings (Leviticus 2) are no longer in vogue. In…
August 2008 Prayer Letter
I waited patiently for God to help me; then he listened and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out from the bog and the mire, and set my feet on a hard, firm path and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me a new song to…
From Brokenness to Revolution
11 July 2008 Where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17 Brokenness What does it mean to be truly free? How can one be broken and at the same time filled with proper confidence? My friend posed this question to me during an intimate time of sharing about the pain…
Let Your Heart Break
August 1, 2008 Dear Friends, Gloria (my Ugandan sister) and I went with our friend Douglas to a slum in Kampala, where the organization he works for has a food distribution ministry and also builds house church communities among those who are poor in this, the capital city of Uganda. I was pretty tired and…
August 2008
Dear Friends and Family, This is an unedited, rough draft of some thoughts I wrote the other evening: I'm in Galaţi sitting in a park not far from home, the one that looks like a big green octagon on the map. The day today was unusually hot, but as the sun finally sinks behind the…
A few drops of patriotism
Growing up in Ethiopia didn't make me the most patriotic soul that has ever sported a US passport. That doesn't mean I don't like a good barbeque with some apple pie thrown in, or that I plan to apply for Australian citizenship anytime soon. It just means I look at our politics from a slightly…
August 2008
August 2008 Dear Friends, As I sit here, sweating a little, a fan is blowing around the humid air, and a gecko just crawled across the wall. Sipping on tea to sooth my cold. I am amazed at where we are. I can't believe that a month ago we were dreaming about what this would…