Today was the first time reading Zephaniah through the filter of revelation and understanding Jerusalem as the church. Here are some of my on the go thoughts and highlights for me from chapter 3. Regarding the Church The first part was a little sobering. Replace Jerusalem with <the church of ____> and whoa! I hope […]
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Something to laugh about but also a teachable moment. This video reminded me of a lesson we had during our cross-cultural training prior to going to our mission field. Often we see a problem and try to fix it. Our natural tendency is to share our advice first without learning the context of our counterpart […]
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We started the year strong. We had a vision and developed a plan to impact our community and mission field. This was a long term plan that would hopefully guide our next 10 years of ministry. We even came up with a catchy slogan, “Vision 2020” and I was pretty sure I had come up […]
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Anna and I started to monitor the Covid19 situation more closely around late February. We were reading the devastating news of how this pandemic was impacting other countries and how the best solution was social distancing, followed by a quarantine. For us, it wasn’t a question of if but when would it arrive in Colombia. […]
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I get notifications from the US Embassy for relevant updates for ex-pats. It sounds fancier than it is. You go to the State Department website and just sing up with your email. Most of the time, it’s passport renewal schedules in different cities across Colombia. However, the tone of the updates have shifted since the […]
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The local municipality is taking strict & proactive measures due to Covid19. At this point, Medellin doesn’t have too many cases…but they’ve been watching the numbers grow exponentially in countries that didn’t take preemptive measures. The result is Pico y Cedula. Pico = Peak and Cedula is your National ID card. You can only be […]
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Putting Colombia in geographic perspective. 2nd most biodiverse country after Brazil. 49 million people. 35% of its land is covered by jungle, that would be Michigan/Ohio/Indiana combined as jungle terrain. 3 mountain ranges. Coast on both the Pacific and the Caribbean. Desert. 5 borders. Colombia is a country of diversity: culture, nature, geography, cuisine, etc… […]
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Monica* has been a consistent participant in a Bible study that started 4 weeks ago. She owns a Bible but admitted to us that it is a challenge to read it. “The size of the letters makes me dizzy, and it gives me a headache.” Last week, we had the privilege of giving her a […]
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Medellín has a lot of tourists. A lot of ex-pats (foreigners living abroad). Frankly, a lot of gringos. (PS-this label has zero negative connotation. It is simply a way to identify people.) That said, here is an example of a common interaction for our family: Local: Where are you from?Kims: The U.S.L: Wow, your Spanish is really […]
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So the thought occurred to me that maybe Moses, at the burning bush, was dealing with culture and language fear/anxiety. For whatever reason, in my head, I thought Moses had a speech impediment or major confidence issues, and maybe he did. Or maybe it was language brain rewiring (link). Of course, other things may have […]
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Team Kim for Colombia 