Missionary Blogs

  • Home Again, Home Again . . .
    Thursday was a travel day. Nothing exciting, just packing, breakfasting, saying hasta luego to friends, a shoeshine and some farewell food/drink. Flights were smooth, connections easy — fortunately nothing newsy to report there (i.e., all ... read more
    1 month ago
  • If It’s 08:35am, It Must Be . . .
    Wednesday’s title is a paraphrase of a movie title about a tour guide who travels so rapidly across Europe that he keeps track of the days by noticing what country he’s in (hence the title: ... read more
    1 month ago
  • La Junta de Educacion
    Our title translates roughly into “School Board” which met for most of the morning today. The Board features an expanded membership and regular meetings; it serves as an advisory group for policy to Bishop Quezada. ... read more
    1 month ago
  • Postponement
    Hello friends, I have spoken to many of you and have told you Wendy and I were going to Africa very soon.  It is with great disappointment that I share that our trip this spring ... read more
    By: Peter Bak – TanzaniaPosted: 2024-04-07
    6 months ago
  • Zabloni’s ordainment gifts
    My friend Zabloni was ordained as a priest in September. In honor of the occasion, my home church, St. James in North Providence, RI, gifted him a chalice. My fellow missionary Wendy and I gifted ... read more
    By: Peter Bak – TanzaniaPosted: 2023-11-18
    11 months ago
  • New cradle
    This couple had never seen a cradle before receiving this one I made for them at the college! Godspeed, Peter ... read more
    By: Peter Bak – TanzaniaPosted: 2023-11-17
    11 months ago
  • Speaking up, after a long silence: grateful that life at FSRL goes on!
    WAVES OF ADVERSITY: We are living through strange and stressful times in our world, and that is 150% true of life for students and staff in Haiti. I have not written any blogs for many ... read more
    By: Donnel and Janet O’Flynn – HaitiPosted: 2023-04-03
    2 years ago
  • Day nine: The Communion Forest
    Thursday began with daily eucharist led by Archbishop Michael Lewis, Bishop of the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf and Primate of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, and Archbishop Hosam Naoum, ... read more
    By: Della Wager Wells – JerusalemPosted: 2022-08-13
    2 years ago
  • Day eight: The Mandala*
    *(Or the day that the Archbishop of Canterbury invited 1,451 people over for lunch.) The giant inflatable globe ... read more
    By: Della Wager Wells – JerusalemPosted: 2022-08-03
    2 years ago
  • Day seven: Help, Thanks, Wow
    The last six minutes and twenty seconds of discussion on the Reconciliation Call. New York Times bestselling author ... read more
    By: Della Wager Wells – JerusalemPosted: 2022-08-03
    2 years ago
  • How on earth to think about the stark contrast between difficult, maybe impossible, stressors in Haiti, versus the fact that good things continue to happen in the learning community of FSRL?
    The reason I posted the photo essay (just before this) by the UN Humanitarian Council is to try to reconcile the contrasting messages that we are receiving and observing: the same messages we are passing ... read more
    By: Donnel and Janet O’Flynn – HaitiPosted: 2022-07-15
    2 years ago
  • A photo essay by the UN Humanitarian Outreach group
    By: Donnel and Janet O’Flynn – HaitiPosted: 2022-07-15
    2 years ago
  • Bishop of Peshawar reports on killings and declares church will continue to be ‘Living Epistle of Christ’ in Pakistan
    Peshawar Bishop Humphrey Sarfaraz Peters yesterday wrote to the board of Bridges to Pakistan about the Jan. 30 targeted attack on leaders in the Diocese of Peshawar: The Rev. Patrick Naeem, our Diocesan Mission Secretary ... read more
    By: Titus Presler – PakistanPosted: 2022-02-14
    3 years ago
  • Women in Mission to be theme of May 12-14 Global Mission Conference online
    Women in Mission will be the theme of the 2022 Global Mission Conference sponsored by the Global Episcopal Mission Network, and it will be held May 12-14 online via Zoom. Ideas about how to ... read more
    By: Titus Presler – PakistanPosted: 2022-01-05
    3 years ago
  • Humility, Inclusion, Companionship – Board identifies three core values of GEMN
    Humility, Inclusion, Companionship – these are the three core values that the Board of Directors of the Global Episcopal Mission Network focused on at their annual extended board meeting, which was held online on October ... read more
    By: Titus Presler – PakistanPosted: 2021-12-16
    3 years ago