Ryan and Amanda are a couple who went through the school last summer in Boise. They have been working in a rural mountain community in India for a number of years. They have a passion and drive that I admire and want more of! Ryan writes the best update letters I've ever read.
Anyways, they sent out their most recent one this week, and it is a heart wrencher. I see poverty daily here, but they live it and make a difference in it in such a personal way. They are starting up a feeding type program for their village to stave off famine and the further breaking up of families, and grinding down of the human-ness of the people there.
Go to their blog....www.smoothpath.org to read more about it. And donate if you are able! Also please pray for them, they are in the heat of it daily. thanks.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Friday, July 06, 2007
random
"I want a human jacket"...spoken by a Filipina girl last night as the rain poured down, and it was getting cooler...she was talking about a boyfriend.
I am very much enjoying what I think of as a traditional Filipino snack...pan de sal, which are small rolls that bakeries sell fresh and hot for one peso each. They are so good. Pandesal and coffee...I had that for dinner last night. Well, and then a little later I had some dried fish and rice, and some veggies...because the ladies at the clinic cooked and wanted me to join in.
I liked these lyrics from an Amos Lee song I was listening to today...it made me think about how as you grow up, you leave so many of those things that built you into who you are...for good or bad...and sometimes it is good to be reminded of them...I thought they were good....
But sometimes,
We forget what we got,
Who we are.
Oh who are are not.
I think we gotta chance,
To make it right.
Keep it loose,
Keep it tight.
Keep it tight.
Sometimes we forget who we got,
Who they are.
Oh, who they are not.
There is so much more in love,
Than black and white.
Keep it loose child,
Gotta keep it tight.
Keep it loose child,
Keep it tight.
I'm reading "Be A Hero", by Campbell and oh dear I can't remember the other author right now...Wesley? Really good. Talking about poverty, and the poor, and heroes of God's army doing things to change the faces of poverty. Sunday's message at church was on God's Heart for the Poor. So good. God is reminding me again of his passion for the poor. It's interesting, because I hear more about the poor, and providing for them, or helping them, from the secular media here...newspapers and tv, and even politicians who have been campaigning, than from the church....
I am very much enjoying what I think of as a traditional Filipino snack...pan de sal, which are small rolls that bakeries sell fresh and hot for one peso each. They are so good. Pandesal and coffee...I had that for dinner last night. Well, and then a little later I had some dried fish and rice, and some veggies...because the ladies at the clinic cooked and wanted me to join in.
I liked these lyrics from an Amos Lee song I was listening to today...it made me think about how as you grow up, you leave so many of those things that built you into who you are...for good or bad...and sometimes it is good to be reminded of them...I thought they were good....
But sometimes,
We forget what we got,
Who we are.
Oh who are are not.
I think we gotta chance,
To make it right.
Keep it loose,
Keep it tight.
Keep it tight.
Sometimes we forget who we got,
Who they are.
Oh, who they are not.
There is so much more in love,
Than black and white.
Keep it loose child,
Gotta keep it tight.
Keep it loose child,
Keep it tight.
I'm reading "Be A Hero", by Campbell and oh dear I can't remember the other author right now...Wesley? Really good. Talking about poverty, and the poor, and heroes of God's army doing things to change the faces of poverty. Sunday's message at church was on God's Heart for the Poor. So good. God is reminding me again of his passion for the poor. It's interesting, because I hear more about the poor, and providing for them, or helping them, from the secular media here...newspapers and tv, and even politicians who have been campaigning, than from the church....
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Here are a few pictures of what a typical prenatal day looks like at the clinic in Antipolo.
There is a seminar each week for the women to attend. Once they have gone through a full 10 week cycle, they are "graduates" and they don't need to attend any more, even if they come back to have another baby. The topics covered include breastfeeding, nutrition, child care and of course labor and birth. The women listen to part of the teaching, and then they have discussion around each table where they ask questions and talk about the subject.
Here are some of them waiting for their prenatal check up. Once the seminar is over, all of the women stream in at once, get their blood pressure and weight checked, and then wait in line for their check up.
Here is Lindsey talking to one of the moms, finishing her check up.
Alex looks at the woman's chart....
Here are some of the midwives...Beth, Lornie and Dina, as they make some "merienda" of pansit, a noodle dish. They are so great!
There is a seminar each week for the women to attend. Once they have gone through a full 10 week cycle, they are "graduates" and they don't need to attend any more, even if they come back to have another baby. The topics covered include breastfeeding, nutrition, child care and of course labor and birth. The women listen to part of the teaching, and then they have discussion around each table where they ask questions and talk about the subject.
Here are some of them waiting for their prenatal check up. Once the seminar is over, all of the women stream in at once, get their blood pressure and weight checked, and then wait in line for their check up.
Here is Lindsey talking to one of the moms, finishing her check up.
Alex looks at the woman's chart....
Here are some of the midwives...Beth, Lornie and Dina, as they make some "merienda" of pansit, a noodle dish. They are so great!
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