Last Saturday we decided to spend the day serving with an organization we had heard about called Extreme Community Makeover (ECM). All we knew was that ECM focused on a few, specific neighborhoods in Denver to assist families and individuals with home improvement projects on the perimeter of their homes. Think of it like Curb [...]

The image above represents our minds over the last month.  Lindsey sits shotgun scribbling down an itinerary that will keep us out of the cold and in places of joy!  This particular note was made while we did some camping in Glacier National Park in Montana.  Clearly this schedule didn’t work out.  I’m posting this [...]

Here are a couple numbers for you. 3,436,550,242 This is half the world’s population. $2.50 per day. This is how much those 3.5 BILLION people live on PER DAY. These numbers aren’t meant to make you and me feel guilty about how much we have; they are meant to state a fact…there is genuine, heavy [...]

We just left Hastings, Nebraska, where we met two very wonderful people and were treated with enormous hospitality. We used couchsurfing.org again since we didn’t have any contacts in Nebraska, and we are so blessed to have done that! I saw Marla and Brian Anders’ profile and since they were an older, married couple who [...]

When I was teaching in Swaziland, there were periods of time when the electricity would go in and out. It’s pretty annoying to have that happen anyway, but when you are in a classroom trying to motivate kids to do schoolwork in a less than ideal environment, it quickly becomes very frustrating to deal with! [...]

We are halfway through our fifth month on the road and have one final, busy month ahead of us. Then we go home to rest and live normally for a bit. The past couple of weeks have taken us through Montana, Wyoming, Salt Lake City, and Colorado. We are currently residing in Boulder, our home [...]

Milka: One Woman’s Story from Nuru International on Vimeo.

photos by Jennifer Dooley The first thing that captures your attention about Julie Chandler is her fantastic red, curly hair. She is soft spoken and has a heart of gold. A big heart. In the last couple of years, Julie has had a clear calling to serve orphaned children and the world’s poor, to speak [...]

The License plates in British Columbia don’t just say “British Coumbia” at the top. Oh no, that would not be accurate. Instead they read “Beautiful British Columbia.” I honestly believe it would be a travesty if Beautiful were not included. You get me. But British Columbia doesn’t have a monopoly on lovely landscape. Unfortunately the [...]