Category: Stories from the Field

This is Part 5 in a series of update posts!  If you haven’t read the previous ones, please click through the links below and do so before you read this one.  Things will definitely make more sense that way! Part 1: Happy Tuesday! Part 2: Wednesday Part 3: A New House Part 4: Shawn …………………………………….. In the last part of this update, I mentioned a neighborhood boy named Shawn –…

This is Part 2 in a series of posts!  If you didn’t catch the first one, click on the link below and read that one first.  Things will make more sense then! Part 1: Happy Tuesday! ………………………………….. Wednesday morning, I called Silas into our room. “I want you to sit with the verse and see what the Lord might say.” Before moving out of our building and into the school,…

This is Part 3 in a series of posts!  If you didn’t catch the first two, click on the links below and read them first.  I promise they’re not very long 🙂 Part 1: Happy Tuesday! Part 2: Wednesday ……………………………………… I had been looking at house listings every day since the landlord had dropped by, just in the background of everything else that was happening.  We did feel like we needed…

November 28th; it was a Tuesday.  I’m really thankful for that actually, because it meant Branden was home.  Tuesdays are his day to teach and my day to work.  I could hear him with the boys downstairs, working through a history lesson while I got my makeup on. Door bell rings.  We weren’t expecting anyone.  I hear Branden open the door. “How are we doing sir?” he says in his normal…