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Sumatra Earthquake (updated)
As I wrote yesterday, I had been listening to the deep booms of an approaching thunderstorm. Barely 10 minutes after I posted my previous entry, the ground started to shake. It took a few seconds for my brain to register that this was, in fact, an earthquake. Balige is well inland, and was far from […]
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Easter Greetings
Selamat Paskah! Easter greetings. I have many experiences to write about. So much has happened in the 11 days that I have been in Indonesia, it is difficult to keep up with writing and sharing it all. Good Friday and Easter are special here in Sumatra, and I learned a lot about the customs and […]
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A visit with Ibu
The other day, I had the great pleasure of visiting an 85-year old Indonesian deaconess, Ibu Gultom (“Ibu” translates to “mother” in English, and in Indonesia is used as a term of respect. Perhaps it’s equivalent in English would be “m’am”). She helped start the HKBP deaconess school and also spent nearly 6 years living […]
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Arrival and Orientation
I have been in Indonesia now for 5 days. Much has happened in such a short time. After a long journey from Medan—through towns, forests, and a pot-hole covered road—I arrived in Balige. I was tired from the day’s journey, and the previous day’s journey from the US to Indonesia. As I stepped out of […]
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Horas from Indonesia
This post is a brief hello to say that I have made it and am doing well on my 3rd day here. After 28 hours of travel time, I finally arrived in Medan (Indonesia’s 3rd largest city and provincial capital of North Sumatra) on Sunday morning, April 1st. We spent the night there and then […]
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A Blessed Sending
Last night I was blessed to be in the company of my church community for the last time (for at least 2 years). As with the blessing of the waiting time earlier this month, and as we have done for many Apostles on their own journeys, my community laid hands upon me and prayed for […]
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Finally
Hello there. This is a quick entry to say that I now have a ticket and will depart on March 30th, one week from today. That is coming up very soon, but I am ready. I am grateful things are moving along now.
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On Disfigurement and Grace
I stepped off the light rail into the damp afternoon air. I craned my neck, looking for a friend, when a man who had been in the same train car from downtown Portland approached me. We hadn’t spoken on the ride. In fact, I had been listening to my “Lent” playlist on my iPod, lost […]
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L I M I N A L__S P A C E
LIMINAL SPACE clickety-clack, clickety-clack this train ride at the threshold has no time of arrival and no certainty of where it will stop. clickety-clack, clickety-clack let the rhythm of the rails take hold. stare out the window hour after hour and think: oh, the places you’ll go! welcome to the liminal space, an expansive neither […]
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The Single Story and Mission
In my previous post, I wrote about the danger of the single story through the words of Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian author. Adichie says, “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” I will […]
Megs the Wanderer 