When Life Takes Flight
I've been a part of an unintentional experiment. For the last 7 years, I've helped lead an organization reaching teens living outside of the passport country. Each spring students board a bus and travel 24-30 hours to Eastern Europe. We ask them to make that journey without phones. Without phones or any other technology. Not …
I found myself wondering today why the country of Romania goes by the abbreviation ROU (instead of ROM) in the Olympics. So I did some research...on the web...using a web search that rhymes with oogle. The answer? According to my exhaustive search, the Romanian government asked for the designation to be changed so that Romanians …
It has been a few weeks since I returned from Project Compassion, the annual Youth Compass service project. The week was filled with joy, pain, and exhaustion. There were over 50 high school students and adults in our group. The students who came attend schools in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands, but make up a sample of the …
I just had the opportunity to hear a little more about the area and the people we'll be working with during Project Compassion 2012, so I want to pass it along. Each year, students from all over Europe come together to serve the poorest of the poor in Eastern Europe. This coming spring we'll be …
