High School Teacher at Boarding School for Refugees in Middle East
Track:Teaching track
Region:Middle East
I am a California native, and a 2013 college grad with a degree in Music.
I love coffee, exploring old places, and conversations with people who are very different from me. Especially over food. The musical nature of everyday life is beautiful to me.
I have a heart for people that are displaced across the world, and God has given me a passion for people in North Africa specifically.
I find myself in a posture of thankfulness for this week because of the upcoming holiday, but not necessarily for the reasons that I expected.
In the past, I have done "30 Days of Thankfulness" challenges (food somehow always ends up on the list), and answered questions time and time again in my small group about thankfulness and what I am thankful for. It always ends up containing the same things: friendship, donuts, bean burritos, family and a warm home to live in.
Recently, my idea of thankfulness has grown in about fifteen different directions.
I have become a student of culture in…
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Week 5 of support raising:
Sitting down to blog is becoming an issue of discipline for me. I have intentionally tried to sit and write about my experiences for about a month now, and nothing has come out. Not that I don't love to write; it is one of my favorite things. But what do I write about? Maybe something that is hard to talk about.
Raising support is crazy hard work. Everything about it is outside of my comfort zone: working independently and having to effectively steward my time (not all Netflix, bon-bons, and roses for me), being direct, and the amount of humility required…
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