Kathy Rice, RN, Tim Rice, MD and their youngest daughter Nancy moved to Vanga, Democratic Republic of Congo in 2015, to work in a rural village hospital. Kathy was given the position as head of the Nursing School in Vanga, educating 250 of Congo’s finest future nurses and midwives.

In some ways, the last year has been a huge challenge for me. It has nothing to do with culture or language or church systems or Bolivia. Due to meningitis almost 15 years ago, I have progressive hearing loss.

My name is Benjamin Oziel. I was born on March 12, 2016. My mom was raped by her own father, who is my grandfather and my dad. Although she did not believe it, my mom did not know she was pregnant with me, so I came into the world while she bathed in a ravine.

In South Sudan the #1 cause of death in women of reproductive age is pregnancy.  When I was in medical school, pregnancy was not a disease.  We’re back in South …

“God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden… The best gift of the desert is God’s presence… The protective love of the Shepherd gives me courage to face the interior journey.”

Who are they? They are teachers who live in Myanmar, but have come to Thailand to live at a school for a month during the hottest season of the year.