Missionary Blogs

  • Not-so-Routine Routines
    Saturday was mostly a travel day with a couple of interesting twists. I finished packing and followed my last-day routine — over to Hermanos Villar for my routine breakfast (two fried eggs, bacon, toasted ... read more
    6 days ago
  • I’m Baaaaack . . .
    A few days delay in finishing my blog postings from my Dominican Republic travels. I’m slow, but perseverant. We’ve reached Friday — a busy day spent at Colegio San Andres with teachers and kids ... read more
    6 days ago
  • Call Me: Mr. Flexibility
    Something I learned early in my time here is the need to be ready for just about anything. Change is a constant and, in keeping with the Dominican insistence on not sweating the small ... read more
    2 weeks ago
  • Things that Happen on Campus
    Hello everyone! This is your website admin Holly. Pete sent this to me while he was still in Tanzania in May and I forgot to hit post! Thank you, and here goes… Wendy Broadbent ... read more
    By: Peter Bak – TanzaniaPosted: 2023-08-14
    2 months ago
  • Irrigation Build
    November 2022 We had a large project this season to replace an old water irrigation system with a new tower and solar-powered water pump. The mountain range that surrounds the drip irrigation project is ... read more
    By: Peter Bak – TanzaniaPosted: 2023-05-15
    5 months ago
  • Things happening on campus: Making of a Slab
    Here, you can see that Gracewell and I have made the form for the slab. We have also put ... read more
    By: Peter Bak – TanzaniaPosted: 2023-05-06
    5 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 ... read more
    By: Donnel and Janet O’Flynn – HaitiPosted: 2023-04-03
    6 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
    1 year 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
    1 year 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
    1 year 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
    1 year ago
  • A photo essay by the UN Humanitarian Outreach group
    By: Donnel and Janet O’Flynn – HaitiPosted: 2022-07-15
    1 year 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
    2 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 ... read more
    By: Titus Presler – PakistanPosted: 2022-01-05
    2 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 ... read more
    By: Titus Presler – PakistanPosted: 2021-12-16
    2 years ago