I recently completed another trip around the sun. With each passing year, I hope that I am wiser and living more as the woman God created...

A few weeks ago my husband and I drove onto the Mercy Ships campus in East Texas for a week of training. After arriving in DFW, hitting...

A highlight in Dakar was going to church with our patients, either in the hospital on Deck 3 or at the Hope Center. On this morning, we...

(this is to be read in the cadence of the traditional poem "'Twas The Night Before Christmas") 'Twas the night before Christmas and all...

I’ve been thinking about the night Jesus was born – like using my imagination and trying to truly picture that night in my mind. I’ve...

The Advent season has begun, when we celebrate the coming of Jesus, the messiah. Advent Dictionary.com defines advent as: A coming into...

We walked up the hill asking each other, "are we doing the right thing? should we sign this lease?" Our lack of confidence in the...

As we pulled away from the dock in Dakar on March 27th, I fully expected to break down. I was outside on Deck 8 with most of the crew,...

This post is honest and a bit embarrassing. I'm embarrassed by how much I don't know about slavery and how little I was taught in school...

It was Saturday, March 14th. All at once we were told that we were no longer allowed to leave the ship and we were beginning to shut down...

I sat on the patio enjoying the tranquility of time alone when a familiar buzzing zoomed past me. I quickly looked around to find the...

When we arrived on the ship, there was not a French teacher for the Academy. My girls had started French last year in school and my hope...

We just celebrated Easter and each year the same question goes through my mind, Why weren’t the disciples camped outside of the tomb,...

This was in the first care package we received in Dakar and I've worn it everyday ever since I opened it. "This place where you are right...

The decision to uproot your kids and move half way across the globe isn't easy. Once the novelty wears off and you're left with a new...

I never knew a child could be born with cataracts. Mossane was born blind because of cataracts. She received surgery here to remove her...

Mercy Ships runs a dental clinic in a town about 45 minutes from the ship. It's an incredible place where patients receive free dental...

Meet Aliou! When he was 3 years old, his blanket caught fire, severely burning him. If this happened to one of my children, I would have...

I sat on the couch alone, 1am, wide awake because in Senegal it was 9am. The house was quite as everyone else slept and I sat with my...

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the boat, not a patient was stirring and we all kept afloat. All snug in our beds where...