'Slave Chains' Photo from Visit and LearnBritish Baptists publicly apologized in Jamaica in May of this year for the role of their ancestors in enslaving Africans. Since yesterday was Jamaica’s Emancipation Day it caused me to reflect on...
Topics: Missioner Reflections

Augus mawnin come againAugus mawnin jubileeFreedom come at last,freedom come at lastfreedom come at last and wat a jubilee!!I had to pause for a while and share some of the memories that made me smile even though I feel like I want to do the opposite....
Topics: Missioner Reflections

Inundated By Death In PanamaAfter 7 funerals in exactly 2 months, I feel like I’ve overdosed on death. In Jamaica, we have a popular folk saying that death comes in threes. I’ve watched 3 turn to 6 and then last Thursday I had my 7th....
Topics: Panama Culture

First Isthmian always gets excited when we have visitors. They were ready to adopt Cia and are already planning to lure her over to Colon. Cia tells about her visit to FIBC and shows pictures (even of me!!) over at her new Blog Afro-Panamanian.
Topics: Blogging, Missioner Reflections

Blogging at MPJ has received a serious blow from my crazy schedule. I just returned to Panama two weeks ago. I unpacked. And by Friday last week I was packed again.Our congregation’s Family Retreat was last weekend at Santa Clara. And not even the.
Topics: Missioner Reflections