Our current nation is not the first place I lived in a slum. When God led me to live and work among the poor overseas, I decided it would be good to get some experience first. Believe it or not, I found there was a summer internship for people who wanted to learn about living …
A year after we moved to our "new" slum, my wife and I shifted rooms in order to live with my best friend Salman1. Soon after the move came an unexpected, heartbreaking season for his family. It was not easy, but the opportunity to know their lives better was a gift. The tragedy struck two …
The second moment that changed my life came during my first trip overseas.1 Just two days after the initial culture shock of emerging from an airport in a developing nation on the opposite side of the world from the country I knew, I spent a night wandering the streets of one of Asia’s largest megacities. …
Stranger in a Slum 