Missionary Blogs

  • Celebrations Weekly
    Early March in the Dominican Episcopal schools marks a number of events that the colegios universally celebrate. These fiestas range from “The World of Poetry” to student-led worship services to historical commemorations. Celebrants range ... read more
    4 days ago
  • Safe arrival
    Good evening, This is Holly, your site admin! Pete has notified me that, after a full two days of travel, he has safely arrived at St. Phillip’s Theological College in Kongwa, Tanzania. Thank you ... read more
    By: Peter Bak – TanzaniaPosted: 2023-03-23
    1 week ago
  • Home Is Where the Recliner Is
    After a couple of flights on Saturday afternoon, I am back in Lincoln, Nebraska. I got home in the wee hours of Sunday morning and spent a lot of Sunday recovering from a long ... read more
    1 month ago
  • Penultimization
    Not very long ago, I came across the word “penultimate” in a sports story announcing the next-to-last game of the football season. I’ve been a writer for a while now (measured in decades), but ... read more
    1 month ago
  • Back to Tanzania
    Good evening, I have received word that I’ll be returning to St. Phillip’s Theological College in Kongwa, Tanzania in mid-March, and returning home in mid-May. Please continue praying for my mission as I continue ... read more
    By: Peter Bak – TanzaniaPosted: 2023-02-17
    1 month ago
  • Postponed trip
    Hello everyone, I hope everyone has had a wonderful summer. I want to inform you I will not be going to Tanzania this season. I will be having a hernia repaired, and will need ... read more
    By: Peter Bak – TanzaniaPosted: 2022-09-03
    7 months 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 ... read more
    By: Della Wager Wells – JerusalemPosted: 2022-08-14
    8 months ago
  • Day eight: The Mandala*
    *(Or the day that the Archbishop of Canterbury invited 1,451 people over for lunch.) The giant inflatable ... read more
    By: Della Wager Wells – JerusalemPosted: 2022-08-03
    8 months ago
  • Day seven: Help, Thanks, Wow
    The last six minutes and twenty seconds of discussion on the Reconciliation Call. New York Times bestselling ... read more
    By: Della Wager Wells – JerusalemPosted: 2022-08-03
    8 months 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 ... read more
    By: Donnel and Janet O’Flynn – HaitiPosted: 2022-07-15
    9 months ago
  • A photo essay by the UN Humanitarian Outreach group
    By: Donnel and Janet O’Flynn – HaitiPosted: 2022-07-15
    9 months ago
  • A very clear and sensible public letter by Dr Gerald Oriol Jr, former Secretary of State for Integration of Handicapped Persons, and godparent of our second graduating class: What DOES Haiti need to do now, in the growing chaos?
    By: Donnel and Janet O’Flynn – HaitiPosted: 2022-07-04
    9 months 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
    1 year 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 ... read more
    By: Titus Presler – PakistanPosted: 2022-01-05
    1 year 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 ... read more
    By: Titus Presler – PakistanPosted: 2021-12-16
    1 year ago