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  • This week the team has been spending a good amount of our time at Rescue Foundation. Rescue Foundation (www.rescuefoundation.net) is a NGO that was created to pull enslaved minors out of the brothels. They use a networ…

  • We spent the last three days in Pune, about 4 hours outside of Mumbai. I thought it was just some smaller rural city, which is actually kinda true, although it is home to nearly 3 million people. That is smaller, co…

  • This was not how we planned it... [I should note before I begin - where I am right now, the events of last night do not seem all that weird. It seemed like a clear progression, where one event followed another until…

  • Deciding to go out on my own for my second night here and try to experience this city myself... Getting lost and having to backtrack three times in the first hour...praying the agpeya while the Arabian Sea splashes a…

  • Landed yesterday after 32 rather uneventful hours of travel. Got to see Tokyo from the airport and spent a tiny bit of time wandering around Singapore. The only special thing about the trip (besides the fact that Singapo…

  • first update (wrote on paper in LA International, but I'm uploading it from Singapore) The mark that God has placed on this trip already is awesome. In my daily bible study, I had just covered "you are the light of the…

  • so...off I goI don't really know what to expect. There is some excitement - getting to see new things and do things I've never done before. There is some fear - fear of repercussions from my work that I will do, fear o…

  • "But you're confused the way so many people are, who don't understand the perspective of God. You keep thinking that death is the most terrible thing that can happen to a person, but to God, death just means you're c…

  • Finally got my itinerary for the trip: Leave LAX July 17 Arrive Singapore (via Tokyo) July 19 Leave Singapore July 19 Arrive Mumbai July 19 and... Leave Mumbai August 5 Arrive Singapore August 5 Leave Sing…

  • back from kid's camp, well burned and beaten up. Three clear lessons for me from the trip: 1) I have a real value for service, but it still needs to be taken to another level. There are so many times where I can…

  • I just saw the worst accident of my whole life. I was on the east side of LA for a kid's camp and a Bible study, and started driving back about 10:45pm. As I neared the 60, I saw that most of the lanes on my street…

  • The Portland Catholic Archdiocese declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This is the diocese that oversees the church my mom goes to and the church I go to in my rare trips home. It is the first diocese ever to declare ban…

  • In honor of the 4th of July: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and t…

  • I just read the following quote: "The United States carries a weighty and far reaching responsibility, not only for the well being of its own people, but for the development and destiny of people throughout the worl…

  • hmmm....perhaps I shall start keeping a journal? A little bit about myself: I'm a science teacher in inner-city Inglewood, California. I've been teaching since 2000; before that I did work in biomedical research, …

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