Finding Momentum

So I’m cut­ting my hair on Sunday–no big deal, right? I’ve been cut­ting my hair for the past eleven years (one mir­ror, one trim­mer and nerves of steel) to vary­ing degrees of suc­cess. Well… my stan­dard of suc­cess means that after my hair­cut, I should a) still be rec­og­niz­able as me and b) not elicit […]

I was out today on a long run (I’m pick­ing up train­ing for the SF Half Marathon in late July). But it was hot… the ther­mo­stat was read­ing 90 degrees at 10 in the morn­ing. It was a really bad idea. But I think I finally real­ized what Psalm 63 means: God, you are my God; earnestly […]

Since I’ve been here last, things have changed. I grad­u­ated from col­lege, went to Africa, started work­ing in the City, changed churches, moved homes. In the span of one week, I’m in San Fran­cisco, then Emeryville, then Saratoga, then Oak­land and back. I’ve said good­bye to friends, made new ones, and redis­cov­ered old ones. I gotta […]

Jack: where you going to be this week­end me: oh man it’s gonna be com­pli­cated haha i’m stay­ing here in sf tonight babysit­ting w/ sarah sat morn­ing meet­ing with [] in fre­mont on sat after­noon then back up to sf for din­ner come back on sat­ur­day night church on sun (gscc) then back up. for church in oakland. […]

I’m here in San Diego with my Mom and sis­ters, just hang­ing out. I know I lose man-points for say­ing this, but I’ve really missed them. Remem­ber fly­ing kites in the back­yard? Isn’t Dad such a char­ac­ter? Remem­ber that cherry tree in the back­yard? And the swing we put on it? We miss your cooking […]

The tran­si­tion back home hasn’t been easy. It’s been hard to get used to the hustle-and-bustle of life here after com­ing back from such a piv­otal life expe­ri­ence. I don’t want to for­get Africa. I can’t. I need to remem­ber, I need to remem­ber the sim­plic­ity of liv­ing. The end­less skies. Friends to chill with […]

We made it safely back in one piece! Thanks for your con­tin­ual prayer and sup­port, we couldn’t have expe­ri­enced all this with­out you. 
One morn­ing, I woke to a rev­e­la­tion that I fear a life wasted.
I real­ized that one of my biggest fears was that if I were to totally sur­ren­der my life to fol­low Jesus […]

Mmm, Rusk…

Orig­i­nally uploaded by andrewhao

Allow me to intro­duce you to the rusk. Think of a bis­cotti, but chunkier. Per­fect in cof­fee or tea for break­fast, lunch, din­ner, or mid­night snack. Awesome.

Sure, Jack Bauer sniffs out ter­ror­ist sleeper cells to save the world in 24 hours, but did you know…
Zhie heads a wom­ens’ empow­er­ment project in Maun.
Zhie har­vests maize and peanuts and guavas in her back­yard.
Zhie has pro­vided fos­ter care for a local child.
Zhie sin­gle­hand­edly raises at least three kids at home, at least one of […]

Nel­isha is Sarah’s friend from 2006. We bumped into her at church the first week we came in, and we were invited to din­ner a week later! Here, as we are wait­ing for the food to come out, Nel­isha is try­ing to teach Sarah Shona, with lim­ited success.

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