Training Participants: Devotion with Anita: Leader Training – Identifying Values: Leader Training – Values List: Mess Hall at Training Seminar: Trust Exercise with Randy: […]
Daily Devotions
One of the traditions for our visiting teams is to lead the daily morning devotions with the CHO staff. This week devotions include the participants in the pastor training classes. The classroom is filled with our Christian brothers and sisters, singing songs of praise and worship in the Khmer language. We recognize some familiar hymns […]
First Day of Ministry
Tuesday, our first day of ministry, the medical team traveled to a remote area near the Thailand border that was used by the army as a medical camp, and area that has never been visited by any government agency, NGO or church. This is what I saw: Hundreds of villagers eager to receive medical attention. […]
Cambodia Team Departs
The team is ready and now we fly off to Incheon, South Korea for our first leg, a 12 hour flight. Cambodia is 15 hours ahead of us in Gig Harbor. After another 6 hour flight we will be in Siem Reap, and if all goes well it will be 10:20 pm Saturday. This will […]
Christmas Memories
Christmas begins in July for the Dickersons. Choir directors start music research, purchasing and rehearsing long before the average person even thinks about the holiday (unless you are like my grandmother who had her shopping finished by March!). The tree, on the other hand, doesn’t make an appearance until Thanksgiving weekend. This year, our sixteen-year-old […]
Watching and Waiting
There are two children in my life for whom I have prayed with more faithfulness and fervency than almost anything else in my life. One, adopted from Ghana, was added to my prayer list when I met her parents four years ago and agreed to run a half-marathon to fund-raise for her adoption. (What?!?! A half-marathon?!?! […]
Fearless Q – Write Back ‘Atcha On the Church
There were a number of questions submitted about the Church that I did not address in my message this past weekend. Here are a few responses: 1. Are Catholics Christians? We can ask the same question of Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, Anglicans etc. Anyone who believes in Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord is a […]
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We Are Not Alone
Dear Chapel Hill Family, I wrote the following reflection in early June, just following a visit home. As we talked about this week’s FearlessQ—How can a good God allow evil and suffering?—Pastor Megan asked if I would be willing to share this reflection with all of you. Rereading it yesterday, and with an upcoming visit […]
Fearless Q – Write Back ‘Atcha on Healing
Here are some of the questions that congregation members asked after the sermon this past Sunday on whether God heals today. One person asks how we are to understand Jesus’ words that we will receive what we ask in faith, in light of unanswered prayer. For instance, when parents pray for a child who is […]
The Question I Have to Ask… What Would You Have¬†Me¬†Do?
The past 2 weeks have been heartbreaking as we have witnessed acts of brokenness unfold across our nation and around the world. While racial tension and discrimination, police shootings and shooting police, anger and hurt are not new to our world, our pain and bewilderment is fresh. And it causes me to ask a very […]
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