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Because we’re all worth it…

October 24, 2017 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power that can transform the world.

I stopped into our local UPS store one day to close the box we used as a temporary home for our mail when we were in between (literally and figuratively) the east and west coasts this summer. I’d found the employees there to be more pleasant than most and this trip was no exception. As […]

Fair Trade Friday

July 25, 2015 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Tell them not to forget us...

Over the past few years, many of us have been confronted with the fact that there are definitely bad ways to help people. For example, we’ve found out …how not to pack our Operation Christmas Child boxes (my own additions: avoid stuffed animals because they only help spread lice, but paper and pencils are always […]

From the Back Seat

July 16, 2015 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?” - MLK Jr. //photo courtesy of Jo Christian Oterhals

I just wrote the first update for our adoption care ministry in over a month. That certainly never happened while I was in Nicaragua. I remember feeling so wrapped up in the day-to-day activities of the project that the rest of the world seemed light years away. But I knew the need for fervent prayer […]

Rice and Beans Challenge

September 1, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

The Las Canoas lake in Tipitapa, near Managua, dries up every time Nicaragua is visited by the El Niño phenomenon, leaving local people without fish or water for their crops. Credit: Guillermo Flores/IPS

Ice bucket challenges wouldn’t go over that well here in many parts of Nicaragua (and throughout Central America), where we are facing the worst drought since 1976.  This is what nine months without rain looks like… There are normally two plantings in Nicaragua. The first takes place in May, just as the rains begin. This […]

Five specific ways you can support missionaries

May 28, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

5 Ways Missionaries Need Your Support

I know I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… missionaries need your support. Yes, they need your financial support, but it is really so much more than that. 1) They need you to check in with them regularly (especially since they often feel guilty about asking for yet another thing… so really press […]

We Quit

March 21, 2014 By Wendy Willard · 4 Comments ·

We quit the game.

We’re almost nine months into our second year here, living in a house that is way too big for our family alone so we can work in adoption care. We’ve had one new missionary family and four adopting families stay with us so far, but we’ve been “empty” since the middle of February. We’re excited […]

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