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There are many questions we must ask ourselves when making a purchase: Can I afford this? Do I really need/want it? Is it of good quality? There is one question, however, that many of us forget to ask ourselves: Would this purchase be a fair-trade? “Fair Trade” is probably a term you’ve heard a few [...]

Faith Forgotten and Borders Crossed

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It happened sometime between daring being a dream and daring coming true…

I went to Costa Rica last summer. It was my first mission trip, my first international mission trip, my first flight, and my first international flight.

Pond-Hopping, Part Two

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Oxford, England In England this fall, Philip and I enjoyed the blessing of meeting two of our YLCF readers in the flesh: one from California and one from the UK. For part one, click here. In Oxford-town we made the merry acquaintance of the English-born, India-reared Rebekah from Aberdeen. “In front of the Bodleian,” we [...]

Pond-Hopping, Part One

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Wells Cathedral, Somerset, England If there is anything that travel has taught me, it’s just how small the world really is. Perhaps it’s a bit ingenuous of me, but I can’t quite get over the miracle of the fact that we could be dining with a Parisian friend in Oxford one night and having vegetable [...]

Fairest Isle

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There is simply nothing like traveling to open the eyes and the mind and the heart to fresh inspirations of God’s Spirit! Some of the most profound moments of my life have been in other countries, on foreign shores, among a language that is not my own (even the Northern United States! ). God changed [...]