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Elijah Plays

Love to Play. Play to Love.

Jul 10th

Posted by Jonathan in : : Elijah

Recently Eli has been a part of a play group with other local German women and children. Although he is the youngest child there, it’s a chance for him to dance, hear fluent German, and exercise… if he’s not sleeping. The play group is designed as a community outreach.  There are More >

My Work Boots

Working

Jun 26th

Posted by Jonathan in Mission Updates

This past week has been spent mowing grass, washing trash cans and hauling gravel at the Black Forest Academy campuses to prepare for the school year and to make some simple, sweat-equity improvements. It’s hard work, but these days of sweating and straining have brought two things to mind, 1) the More >

middle Rhine bridge

Fragile

Feb 21st

Posted by Jonathan in Some Thoughts

Mittlere Rheinbrüke

It happened around the time I was 37.2 years old. How do I know that? …because I was on a weekend retreat called The Walk to Emmaus and someone made a comment that the median life expectancy for an American male was 74.4 years. I did the math instead of More >

The path to Omaha Beach, Normandy, France

The Days Ahead

Jan 6th

Posted by Jonathan in Some Thoughts

The path to Omaha Beach

Two down. Only one resolution remains. I’m not sure why we set resolutions each year, but I think part of it is so that we can cling to some tiny piece of false control when we look ahead at the unknown in the 365 days ahead. More >

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