Agape Love
This week the Sp!rit showed me more of G-d’s character of LOVE. (In a devotional series titled “Perfect Love: Maximum Joy Series”) In Greek, there are a few ways to describe LOVE: Eros love: body physical, selfish, getting Phile love: soul, emotional, half and half, getting and giving Agape love: spirit, spiritual, unselfish, giving the kind of love outlined in 1 John is agape love, which is the kind of love which is the very essence of G-d. This type of love is SO apparent in many of the parents of the children I work with. These kids have differing levels of… Read more >>
Ups and Downs of Culture Shock
They say that culture shock hits hardest during the first few months while overseas. Though, considering covid-19 took over just about a few weeks after arriving to my field placement, I’ve barely even been able to interact with locals! So in that sense, I was more “eased” into the culture. Unlike one of my teammates who had to go to school and started early on with ministry work, I am only just now starting to get more hands on experience with the work I came here to do (though it’s still quite limited). At the moment things are almost back to normal though. This said, I’ve had a bit… Read more >>