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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August Is the Best!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year- almost! Before some of you start being concerned that I’m suffering from sunstroke, let me clue you in on a little secret: I love the month of August. And not because of the long, luxurious summer days, or the anticipation of my birthday in September, or our […]
The Final Day in DC
Tonight we concluded our missions trip with a celebratory dinner, hosting most of the people we met along the way. Though a few faces were missing among us, our other guests were just as pleasant to see in our midst. Some of these people included Miss Tina, Reverend Buffalo, Pastor Will and his family, Ernst […]
DC Team Update
Hey y’all! The DC Dream Team started the day with a prayer breakfast at the Southeast White House, a faith-based meal where city-minded people can connect, anyone from congressmen to homeless men. I got to learn about DC and the people in it from local leaders while eating bacon. Afterwards, we were able to help lead a […]