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A Shard from The Philippines
When the world was perfect, God was reflected without flaw in His creation. But when the world shattered as sin entered, that reflection...
Shawna
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Bible Stories
Feeding 5,000 Almonds Every trip I bring a big old bag of almonds just in case there’s a meal I can’t eat, I can still get some protein...
Shawna
Mar 253 min read
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God Made Space for Water Filters and Face Paint
Wow, wow, wow! What a day! We visited caves, held babies, and diagnosed biblical diseases! Surprisingly, clinic was less busy today. I...
Shawna
Mar 243 min read
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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 232 min read
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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 214 min read
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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 204 min read
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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 192 min read
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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 183 min read
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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 173 min read
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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 163 min read
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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 141 min read
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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 233 min read
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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 223 min read
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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 213 min read
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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 204 min read
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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 193 min read
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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 182 min read
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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 175 min read
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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 162 min read
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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 151 min read
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