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Do You Trust Me?
“I want you to go to the Philippines.” “But it’s a long, expensive trip and I can’t go with my husband. Plus it’s all fish and boats and...

Shawna
Mar 23, 20252 min read


Healing with What We Have, Loving with All We Are
Another fantastic day at clinic that was full of new things just as it has been every single day! This morning there weren’t really any...

Shawna
Mar 21, 20254 min read


Laughter, Learning, and Life-Giving Water: Best Day Ever!
Boy I think it’s going to be hard to top how amazing today was! Let me start at the beginning ;) This morning I got to go into one of the...

Shawna
Mar 20, 20254 min read


A Life Saved
With clickbait like that, I’d better give you the best story of the day first ;) We had a gentleman come in today who had been in an...

Shawna
Mar 19, 20252 min read


Inside the Pressure Pot
You think the Philippines is hot and humid, but add in a pressure pot and you have now experienced true heat and humidity, I’m pretty...

Shawna
Mar 18, 20253 min read


A Little Bit of Everything
Wow what a first day!! This trip has already been so different from other missions I’ve been on, and it just keeps going!! Like I said in...

Shawna
Mar 17, 20253 min read


How Do You Know You Love the Lord?
That was what church’s message was about today. The pastor preached from the passage in Mark that talks about the two greatest...

Shawna
Mar 16, 20253 min read


One More Travel Day
We are officially in The Philippines! Today we will be taking the ferry from Cebu to Leyte. The ferry will take all day, so we will just...

Shawna
Mar 14, 20251 min read


A Shard from Thailand/Myanmar
What’s with all the celebrations? That was something that I really didn’t expect on this trip. “Refugee missions trip” doesn’t exactly...

Shawna
Jan 23, 20253 min read


Vitamin Stickers and Glove Critters
Our final day was split between two locations both full of little children! We spent the morning working at a refugee school where we saw...

Shawna
Jan 22, 20253 min read


Uncovering Dignity
We got to spend another day serving the people at the refugee camp! We saw about 150 patients today and were even able to do physicals...

Shawna
Jan 21, 20253 min read


The Eldest Refugee
Our day began dark and early with a lovely anniversary breakfast thrown by our team! After breakfast we immediately headed out to the...

Shawna
Jan 20, 20254 min read


Little Drummer Boys
This morning we went to a local church located in a refugee village! This church was started by an evangelist a few years ago and got so...

Shawna
Jan 19, 20253 min read


Burmese Clinic: A Collection of Short Stories
We got to work at the clinic that ACC founded today! It’s attached to a local church and normally sees about thirty patients a day with a...

Shawna
Jan 18, 20252 min read


Fire Ant Urine
What a title, I know ;) we’ll get to it in just a second! Today was our first clinic day! It seems like we will be in different locations...

Shawna
Jan 17, 20255 min read


Ten Thousand or Tens of Thousands?
Oh my goodness we had a long day! We started bright and early this morning with a road trip through the Thai mountains complete with...

Shawna
Jan 16, 20252 min read


Some Much Needed Stretching
We made it!! Over twenty hours in the air and several connections later, all of our team AND all of our luggage safely have arrived in...

Shawna
Jan 15, 20251 min read


Wait, Which Gate?
Our Colorado teammates are officially on their first leg of our journey to Thailand!! Only one of our bags got flagged for secondary...

Shawna
Jan 13, 20251 min read


Good Hope, Great Kids
We are in South Africa this week visiting our friends who are missionaries, and one of the days we got to go down to the school they...

Shawna
Nov 24, 20243 min read


A New Missions Partner
I have some very big news! I got married! God has brought me and Jadon together, not just as husband and wife, but as partners in His...

Shawna
Jan 20, 20241 min read
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