Word Made Flesh is a contemplative community. One of the ways that we contemplate what God is doing in the world and in our lives is through the reflection articles that we write. We invite you to read, learn, and celebrate with us.
The Cry for Submission: Letter from the Editor by Emily Fales
February 2011
February 2011 Dear Friends, It’s the first weeks of January and I’m getting adjusted back to life in El Alto after spending two weeks in the US in December. The first week I spent celebrating Christmas with my family and the second week I spent in Atlanta at the Passion conference. Passion is…
January 2011 Prayer Letter
Hello! With things at work moving along at a frantic pace, I thought it would be a good idea to step back for a bit and write an update. This being my first year-end at Word Made Flesh, I’m gaining more and more practice with time management skills. There are more donations coming in which…
2010 Year In Review
Word Made Flesh Argentina 2010 Year In Review Happy New Year from Buenos Aires! Our community is grateful for the partnership and prayers of family and friends in 2010. We want to share some highlights from our year. January – Our community began the year with a time of retreat and summer fun together. We…
January 2011 Prayer Letter
Rejected It is said to be a country torn apart by decades of war; but the truth is country’s are not torn apart by war, people are. The Khmer people have been torn apart I have been meeting with Bpaan on the street for over a year. She has 3 beautiful children, you may remember…
2010 Year End Giving Statement : A letter from Liz Ivkovich.
Dear supporters of Word Made Flesh, Thank you so much for your generous support in 2010! What a blessing you have been to us; we are so grateful for your partnership as we serve Jesus among the most vulnerable of the world’s poor! Would you like to receive your 2010 year end giving statement via e-mail?…
Becoming
January 2011 The kingdom of this world Is become The kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ Today I cried at this phrase in Handel’s Messiah. These words, powerfully sung, strike me this year. Instead of uniformly robed choirs, images of the whitewashed concrete dorms dusted with snow come to mind. I think of…
a look inside
Happy New Year to all! This month marks my one year anniversary of arrival in Moldova. Here’s a visual of the school dormitories where the children sleep, the door we enter every day and one of our education rooms on the second floor (can you see the paper snowflakes in the window?) Another of our…
january 2011
Dear Friends and Family, Our staff in Moldova are working hard as we anticipate the celebration of Christmas with our children at the boarding school. One special event for us this month was a time in which a group from a private high school in Chisinau came to our after-school group and shared in singing,…
January Prayer Letter
January 2011 I have a lot of experiences and moments from 2010 that I want to carry with me into 2011. Today, I am looking back and remembering. These are a few experiences that most stand out to me from the past year and that I feel are most valuable to carry with me. I…
January 2011 Prayer Letter
January 2011 Dear Friends, Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe another year has come and gone. This morning during our staff devotions we had a time to reflect on 2010 and to start making a list of where we had seen God move. It was really eye-opening for me personally. I feel like I…