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I have been trying to write this blog for about a month and a half now, but I couldn’t figure out how to frame the stories I want to tell. All of my conclusions from them are vague and inconsistent. I will get back to that at the end, but for now I have justContinue reading “Two Tales”

Spring Festival, better known as Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year, is the celebration of the start of the Lunar calendar. Since this is based on the cycle of the moon, the date on the Gregorian calendar fluctuates each year. From my personal experiences celebrating the holiday in a small city in China, theContinue reading “Spring Festival”

How long, oh LORD, will the world be in chaos over this disease. How long will there be preventable deaths. How long with the health care system be over run. How long will it be until families can be reunited, Until single friends can have connection again, Until your people can gather together in theContinue reading “A Covid 19 Lament”

Today marks my 7th year in vocational ministry. Basically everything about what I started out doing has changed – my location, focus, support, views on mission work. But God has been faithful to keep me going through all the ups and downs, the excitement and the boredom, the wonderful and the terrible.  Here are a fewContinue reading “7 Thoughts for 7 Years”

Hi. I’m Amanda and, in case it isn’t totally clear from the title of this post, I am a dork. This is my second attempt to start a blog. I enjoy writing and find that I do a much better job expressing myself through the written word than I do when I speak. I hopeContinue reading “New Blog, Who Dis?”