Amen?

Well - the experiment is complete and I think was very successful. I am so proud of my team for their flexibility, resiliency and effort. We are so thankful for all of our supporters and readers here who in many ways came along with us.

As a public searchable document, the content of this blog has been carefully worded. If you would like to know more about all that is happening at the Hospital of Hope and that area of the world, I would be happy to meet with you or chat more. To get this wonderful place to a sustainable and thriving level, many more staff and significantly more money will be needed, so I will be looking for more helpers in this work. My observation though is that God’s hand is on it, it is His work and He is blessing it.

I have known for awhile that I wanted to conclude this blog with the Lord’s Prayer. Not coming from a liturgical worship setting, I actually don’t read or recite or think about this prayer very often, but recently a portion of it in the lyrics of a song caught my attention.  Just last month I was reading to my son from the The Jesus Storybook Bible, a lesson taught by Jesus about prayer. In it Jesus was saying that we don’t need to pray like the “Extra-Super-Holy People," but that we can pray in our normal voice, like this....