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Crossing Cultures Making Disciples Memoir

Unknown

College student on a flight. Me. Heading to the unknown. 

Meeting up with the rest of the team in Seattle. Then we fly together across the Pacific Ocean to Taiwan. There we’re scheduled to serve for ten weeks in various cities. 

Suddenly, people on the plane start exclaiming. Calling others to look out the windows. 

Clear, blue summer sky. 

And we’re flying over snow-topped Mt. Rainier. 

Magnificent.

Mt. Rainier. Image by Ghantavya Bhatt on Unsplash.
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Devotional Memoir

Standing on gravestones

The organ shrieks as we enter the sanctuary. Dissonant. Avant garde notes bouncing off ancient stone floors. Filling the arched ceilings. 

Discordant.

Disconcerting. 

Seemingly out of place with the luminous stained glass and stately wooden pews.

Arched ceilings in Sint Bavokerk, Haarlem, the Netherlands.