Archive for • Challenge to Action
• Amer. Bible Society Presents
ABS has a weekly thirty-minute Television program called The American Bible Society Presents. The program attempts to feature various ways that ministries use the Word of God to reach out to others. They filmed a fifteen-minute documentary that featured our Los Angeles Chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Magicians group and how we use the […]
• Estonia-Kid Mission-2004
It was the summer of 2004 that I joined a team of thirty-three that went to Tartu, Estonia to build a playgound for children. Pictured here is our team from Whittier Area Community Church, along with some teachers and new friends, who helped at the site. In one week the playground was completed. It was […]
• Faith & Tension
This picture captures the essence of Faith and Tension. This was the cover on our Sunday Church Bulletin. I just liked the image with the caption “Faith and Tension.” One can easily imagine a boat that is anchored with strong rope to the edge of the dock by a dock cleat, but the water maintains […]
• Sathyam Orphanage
My first stop on my India-Kid Mission this August was a Children’s Orphanage in Bombay (Mumbai). It was called Sathya Nikethan. Here is the Head Master of the children’s home. I had never been to an Orphanage before, so I was apprehensive about how I would do there and how I would be received. There […]
• My Floral Bouquet #6
These floral beauties are daisies, that I captured in Estonia. Daisies are quite common flowers, found in so many places. Daisies are, to me, rather simple flowers, rather symmetrical with only two colors with the clean white pedals. They have a clean crisp look in contrast to the green foliage. These flowers impressed me as […]
• The Fruit of Gratefulness
Saturday, while taking a walking break from my writing in Palm Springs, I found myself checking out the fruit to determine its readiness for picking. The grapefruit turns from green to yellow, then brighter yellow to a reddish blush. When this reddish blush appears, that’s how you can tell this type of grapefruit is ripe. […]
• The Missing Puzzle Piece?
Many of us have had the experience of working on a large puzzle for hours only to find towards the end that one piece is missing to complete the puzzle. The picture is incomplete without that one piece. But where is it? You might look everywhere, only to conclude that it can’t be found. Well, […]
• Confronting Change?
For a few weeks now, I have had the feeling that I was being followed. It was just a feeling, I thought. I tried to dismiss the nagging questions in my mind, but it continued. I could not really tell you what it was, but lurking in the shadows, I could faintly make out a […]
• Resolved: Fired Up to Help!
Malibu Presbyterian Church was totally destroyed this week. This is not a news report, you have been hearing about the devastation of the recent fires in the Southern California region. The media has been covering the wild fire stories, non-stop for days. The devastation and loss to the region has just been overwhelming. It will […]
• The Bountiful Hand
I was driving through Dinuba, CA this week. As I was leaving town, I noticed this unusual monument out of the corner of my eye. I began to wonder about it more, so I turned around to see what this giant hand was all about. I went back to check it out.
