
One memory lodged forever in my mind and heart is from the summer of 1987. Our only child at the time, our son, was 5 months old. We, along with other leaders, had taken a group of about 35 college-age young people on a missions trip to eastern Europe. Their weeks were filled with adapting and understanding new cultures, sharing in churches, street-evangelism and drama. But mainly by removing themselves from the comforts of their...