I was just reading in USA Today that Russia’s GDP is less than that of California’s. What’s more, their economy, right now, is hurting. While on the one hand, we continue to play geo-political chess with Russia over election hacking, … Continue reading
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Catching up on August/Sept… I did an article for the local newspaper on First Mennonite Church’s “Casket Ministry” here. A regular on-the-market casket costs, on average: $4,000. A First Mennonite casket, of comparable quality and crafted by church member “carpenter … Continue reading
Continuing to catch up on July… I did a newspaper article about St. Mary’s Church here and their “Appalachian connection.” Each year an outreach team from St. Mary’s goes to Kentucky’s Owsley County, one of the poorest in the country. … Continue reading
The big news this week is that Pope Francis went the the Greek island of Lesbos and took back three refugee families who will now be: “…guests of the Vatican.” Good idea. Our administration would open the White House for … Continue reading
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I talked with Neil Kehler who is involved with a “Casket Ministry” at First Mennonite Church in Bluffton, Ohio. He and other church “carpenter hobbyists” make nice, cherry wood caskets for deceased church members. The cost: $300. Neil told me … Continue reading
We continued further south, stopping at Koinoinia Farm in Americus, Georgia. This was the backwater Selma to Montgomery of the Civil Rights Movement. On this farm in the late ’40s, blacks and whites lived and worked together in … Continue reading
While in Laramie, Wyoming, we also met up with some old friends from our Bluffton, Ohio, days. Matt Frances, his wife Kristen and daughter Penelope have been in Laramie the past two years. Kristen is a teacher in … Continue reading
We just drove through southern Mississippi along the Gulf Coast. (We had toured this area a few months after Hurricane Katrina and saw the almost total devastation.) We stopped in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Along the coast here (as … Continue reading
A few weeks back, we were at Jubilee Partners Community in Comers, Georgia. (They’re mission is taking in refugees from all over the world.) While at Jubilee, I interviewed Don Mosley, 71, who is the co-founder of Jubilee. … Continue reading
Three young couples from Texas, Iowa and Ohio, respectively, have come to LaGrange, Georgia, as part of a MissionYear Project. They are volunteering for the Alterna Community here, which is a cluster of homes set up for immigrant … Continue reading