In the villages of Malawi, sometimes it’s hard to know a person’s age. Even parents don’t always remember the date their son or daughter was born. There are no filing cabinets with birth certificates or even a calendar on the wall, but they do usually remember if it was during the rains or not and…
When I was a kid, I was good enough at my sport to make the local all-star team. I honestly have no idea how stiff the competition was for that spot, but I thought it was kind of a big deal to be the illustrious first pick. I was quick, accurate, and tough, but I…
Some of our kids at HUGS for Tomorrow are sponsored, but for the most part we raise money every six months to feed each one and keep them all in school. We do this for a few different reasons, including the constantly fluctuating food costs and the opportunities it presents for our supporters to get…
It seems to me that each place we live has its own resident evil spirits—local demons assigned to stir up a particular brand of evil. There are a couple here named Gossip and Slander. You should recognize them from their many mentions in the Bible. They’re cousins and quite skilled at working together. We’re watching…
I’ve had the worst ever writer’s block lately. No kidding. I have five blog articles in the works, but I can’t seem to complete any of them. Heck, I can’t seem to complete a sentence. It’s crazy! But I have information you need, so I made a deal with God. (I know that’s probably not…
We traveled to Malawi for two weeks in May and—I know this is an unorthodox thing to report—we didn’t see any gay people. Not one couple. It hit me in an airport on the way back when we saw a guy wearing a gay pride shirt, caressing another man. It was eye opening and thought…
I must confess that when our kids were little and just learning how to read and write, one of my guilty pleasures was to imitate the funny ways they mispronounced words and even adopt them into my own vocabulary. It was beyond adorable to hear the many ways Ben mixed up his bs and ds….
We bought a house this month, which will be our thirty-first move since we’ve been married, which puts us officially at Baskin-Robbins status (you know, because of the thirty-one flavors), which is crazy when you think about it, which is why I don’t really want to think about it right now. Instead I want to…
I’ve been to seven doctors in three weeks, and I’m on my fourth antibiotic. Also, I don’t mean to sound paranoid but I’m pretty sure the devil hates me. Either that or God is just testing my mettle, because this sort of thing seems to happen every time we get a Bible study going, which…
Charities are always asking for money, which is necessary to fund our ministries, but what about all the other ways you can support your favorite non-profit organization? Here are seven things you can do right now to help HUGS for Tomorrow without spending any money or even much of your time: Check out our new…