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Williams in the Wilderness. Memories of my Grandma Jewel. It's two days after Christmas when I get the call. The old bull elephant I'd been watching lumbers slowly off as our jeep creeps past. I can hear my kids laughing and talking above me, their feet hanging just in reach of a good tickle, but I don't feel like tickling anymore. The things that go unsaid. When those days finally came she was still there, tucking a check into my pocket every time we visited her. Her, so much. Yet she'd been lonely...
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Williams in the Wilderness. Three Years and Counting. We lay in the hammock together tonight, his head resting on my arm, his little legs wrapped around mine, and looked at the moon. Between pointing at stars and trees and glimpses of moonlight he would hug my growing belly, absently rubbing it as he does every day. I found an old journal this week from my first days of caring for him. I seemed tired and worn out, nursing two babies and getting little sleep, but oh, so in love with this boy. Even...And s...
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Williams in the Wilderness. I know it's been a while since I last posted, but man, time really flies when you are getting adjusted to a "new" culture, homeschooling six kiddos, playing soccer six days a week, taking care of a newborn, and trying to help your kids become passable Americans. Life doesn't seem as crazy as it sounds, but it. In the midst of all of this busyness we are merging our love for all things new and adventurous and our love for coffee into a new venture, Mountain Mama Roasters.
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Williams in the Wilderness. Long-awaited fire relief update! I'm sorry for the loooong delay on getting this blog out! I can't begin to explain (at least in this post) what all has been going on, but we have been. And I am finally finding time to upload some pictures and give you a report on where the money has been spent. This is our good friend, Lokong Simon. Lokong was a. Every bag of sorghum had to be weighed and loaded onto our rented truck. We are so thankful for the support that poured in for our ...
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Williams in the Wilderness. It's only been weeks since we left Karamoja, but I find myself already needing to remember. I hope to write soon about why God led us to leave (all good reasons), but for now we are settling in and words escape me for all I'm feeling. Instead, I am reposting this blog I wrote for my friend Karen's website. The water filling the tea kettle echoes loudly in our cement-floored bathroom as Kenneth gets everything ready for morning coffee. I unbolt the front door as quietly as ...
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Williams in the Wilderness. It's been overwhelming this week. Not the amount of homes destroyed, but the. The giving has been overwhelming. In a matter of days the total given reached over $10,000. That may not seem like a lot when you consider how much it costs to replace. Things (not even enough for one family, right? But this is not America, and people here can carry all they own on their backs. If only every problem were so easy. For those who have prayed or given or written us encouraging notes,.
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Williams in the Wilderness. The sound of crackling woke me up this morning. It was too close and too loud for comfort. We gathered beside Elise and Camille's hut and watched the flames lick at the dry sorghum stalks just outside our fence. As the shepherds beat at the flames with branches the fire slowly died down, leaving only blackened earth in its wake. But what about disaster in a place like this? A place where neighbors don't have enough for their own families, much less those whose food is now blac...
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Williams in the Wilderness. I don't know how to write this story. I've been mulling it over for a week now, trying to find the words that will make it come alive. But words fail. One scene replays in my head again and again. She is incoherent, babbling, calling out, her arms waving wildly as she searches with half- blind eyes. I take her grasping hand in mine. I lean close and speak clearly, "Ayeni". I answer again, "Ayeni. Encoriana? Eh," she replies, still holding my gaze and gripping my hand fiercely.
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Williams in the Wilderness. I recently became aware that there are many of you who read this blog that don’t get our newsletters. This is an attempt to catch you up on what God is doing in our lives and why we are no longer in Karamoja. Lately it had gotten worse, and Wari asked if he can walk the trails alone and preach alone because when he begins to disciple men they want to know when they are going to get paid the way he is. I’m used to it. Wari’s used to it. Heading out into the bush for a baptism.
