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New Blog!
Hey I have a new blog! Please go to http://samajoe.blogspot.com/ from now on to keep posted!
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TIA
TIA, 'this is Africa' is a common phrase we use here in Africa meaning, we are no longer in America living by our rules and customs. We are now ...
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1 week til take off!
"Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think..." Ephesians 3:20 This verse was often my encouragement as I...
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donations?!
Hey everyone Its less than a month now until I will be heading off to Africa!! I have had people interested in the past in donating things to the chi...
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friendship in all shapes and sizes
Its hard for me to believe my time here in Oaxaca is coming to an end. I have a week and two days left, I know this because I am asked numerous ...
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Africa!!!
We need the eyes of deep faith to see Christ in the broken body and dirty clothes under which the most beautiful one among the sons of men hides. We...
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there's nothing in the world like adolescents
As we sit in the kitchen of my friend Jill and Janelle's apartment its no wonder that 6 year old Sol cannot focus on her homework. In the Jenny...
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here but my heart is there...
As I laid on the couch watching Miracle on 34th Street with the boys I had little Izar snuggled into my side. All of the other boys, inclu...
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Thanksgiving Oaxacan style!
Life since Carmen and Fabian returned has been much more tranquil. As many of you know my sister and brother in law had to leave abruptly after the ...
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Some good quotes
Right now I am reading 'No Greater Love' by Mother Teresa. I know many people have different takes on her and tell me what you want but I don't ...