Church Around The World | Fiji
One of the best parts of my mission trips to Bolivia was experiencing church the way the locals do. I remember trying to understand the sermon in Spanish, but technically only catching every third...
View ArticleChurch Around The World | Auckland
One of the best parts of my mission trips to Bolivia was experiencing church the way the locals do. I remember trying to understand the sermon in Spanish, but technically only catching every third...
View ArticleReflections From The Road | 60 Days
Can you believe today marks two whole months on the road? My mind doesn’t even register how much I’ve seen and done until I flip back through my photos and then I’m just overwhelmed. If I was forced...
View ArticleChurch Around The World | Christchurch, New Zealand
In my travels past and present, I’ve been very moved by the Christians who make it church every Sunday regardless of how easy it is to get there or how comfortable it is inside. I’ve never had to make...
View ArticleChurch Around The World | Melbourne
One of the best parts of my mission trips to Bolivia was experiencing church the way the locals do. I remember trying to understand the sermon in Spanish, but technically only catching every third...
View ArticleChurch Around the World | Brisbane, Australia
I’ve mentioned friends and wonderful tour guides John & Chris a few times during my Brisbane posts, but I haven’t told you how we met. Years ago, they came to Florida and served at Abundant Life...
View ArticleChurch Around The World | Ubud, Indonesia
I’d been on the road for about 10 weeks when everything careened off track. Between the earthquakes in Japan and Bali, subsequent tsunami warnings, freaky supernatural happenings, painful (and...
View ArticleChurch Around The World | Seminyak
My nerves had calmed down significantly since the Sunday before when I ran to church in Ubud like someone was chasing me. I asked the concierge at the Oberoi, where Pam and I stayed after Surf...
View ArticleMaking Myself at Home in Jerusalem
Looking back, it was a banner travel day for Angie Away. I’d already made my way by taxi, then another taxi, then shuttle, then bus, then tram, from Amman, Jordan, over the scrubby desert wilderness...
View ArticleOh, Disappointing Little Town of Bethlehem
Oh, little town of Bethlehem. You once were a tiny, non-descript village just a hop-skip-and-a-jump from Jerusalem, and now people around the world sing songs about you every December because a...
View ArticleAn Encouraging Adopt-a-Slum Update
Several months ago I started the Adopt-a-Slum initiative after spending a few weeks working with families from the Mathare slum outside Nairobi, Kenya. Having visited in 2011 during my RTW trip, I...
View ArticleHow We Met: The Angie & Rick Story
How does an outdoorsy New York lumberjack / fisherman without a passport or a Twitter account end up with a nomadic, blogging, tech-addicted, globetrotting publicist? It’s a love story only God...
View ArticleReflections from the Road | Vol. 26
Hey y’all – welcome back! I apologize that it’s been quieter than usual around these parts since my last update and I’ve only posted a few times since my January 1 edition, but don’t fret. I haven’t...
View ArticleReflections from the Road | Vol. 27
I don’t know if y’all love reading it, but I really love writing my quarterly Reflections from the Road post. I sit at my computer and think, “I really haven’t done much in the past 90 days,” and then...
View ArticleA Letter to My Baby Sister on her College Graduation Day
Dear RaeRae, (Can I still call you RaeRae even though you’re a fancy, degree-wielding grown-up now?) Congratulations, Quijanna! You’ve achieved the goal you set when you told me around age 4 that you...
View ArticleReflections from the Road | Vol. 28
Nothing makes me chuckle like reading the last edition of Reflections from the Road right before I sit down to write the new one. You’d think I would learn that filling up every minute of my life with...
View ArticleOur Pre-Kid Bucket List
Big news around here, y’all! Rick and I are expecting…. …. our first foster kids later this year! We are planning to start taking classes and completing home studies toward the end of 2017....
View ArticleReflections from the Road | Vol. 32
If you could see my face right now, and I’ll spare you the visual, you might say that I look a bit like I’ve been through a storm. Like so many people in the South and the Caribbean this year,...
View ArticleA Travel Fear (Almost) Realized
Since many folks have asked, we interrupt this regularly scheduled Egypt coverage for an uncharacteristically personal update from home. The only traveling I’m doing this week is back and forth from...
View ArticleAngie Away’s 2017 Travel Year in Review
Show of hands: who’s happy to see 2017 in the rearview? We’ll get to all my travel recapping in a minute, but first, can I just wax poetic for a sec? The world is a bit upside down, and ignoring that...
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