The one thing I can say for sure about my time in the mission field is that nothing ever stays the same. Ever. Oddly, I used to love change. As a young wife and mother, I would quickly grow bored of how my house was arranged, so I was constantly shifting furniture from this corner to that one. And then I took it a crazy step further and started repurposing rooms. For example, my bedroom was in every room in our house that a queen sized bed could fit. We lived in a beautiful, aged home full of...

The children had started returning from two week visits with family. Not all the kids left, but more than half did which made the return somewhat chaotic. Over the years, the children have gotten more used to the transition between their two worlds. Because it's not at all a stretch to say they're desperately different worlds. A couple of the girls, not sisters but both 9, were really struggling. They looked sad, kept getting teary, and just couldn't get their feet under them during that...

A missionary family to Thailand, who has twin sons, was able to buy twin vans for the children's home they operate in Sukhothai.