Archive | September, 2009

Dead Women Walking

Last night we went to a completely different part of the city.We went there with a couple of workers from OMF. You should check out their site and learn more about their ministry here. We visited a ministry center, temple, a night market and an area of prostitution. Check out this book called “Dead Women [...]

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Hungry Ghosts

Yesterday morning we split up and went to various evangelical churches. For an excellent post on one person’s observation of our church visits next a look at this. Later on as we were walking yesterday (which by the way we walk a lot and I love it) we went by stores that had small tables [...]

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The City – First impressions

We arrived last night. It was a long night and day of travel but I am here safely and thankful for the journey. Learned much about the city from my airplane ride as I sat next to a very nice and talkative guy from here. I simply enjoy learning about one’s culture. I pulled out [...]

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Connecting Flight

Sitting here in the Amsterdam airport waiting on my plane. I only have about 4 more hours til take off. This is the point of arrival for us when we moved to Spain. Our connecting flight to Madrid was from here. Many memories of entering a new culture here. I remember two things rather vividly. [...]

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Final Preparations

In a few days I will be going to a place that I have never been before. The adventure side of me gets really excited about it. I love to go to places that I have never been. I love seeing new things, learning new cultures, eating new food (well, most of the time). I [...]

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Back from the roadtrip

In many ways being able to be on the road these last weeks was a dream come true for me.I could write a realllllllllllllllly long post about all of the places where visited but you can actually check out www.blog.theupstreamcollective.org And while I am thinking about it be sure to visit our blog as we [...]

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Top Five Food / Drink spots from the Tour

Coming off our tour with www.theupstreamcollective.org I decided that I needed to give a shout out to some of the best places where I ate. Of course we journaled about some other things on our blog and you should check it out for sure but I also like to eat some local food and drink [...]

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