Fear

“What are you afraid of?”

This is a question I don't feel I ask myself often enough, a question we all face nearly every day. Or at least we should.

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Russian memoriesShawn
The Do-Nothing Missionary

“What are we going to do?” It was the first question I asked Doug Patterson when I met with him a little over a year ago to discuss joining the Orphan’s Tree team he was leading to Ivanovo in May 2013.I thought it was a perfectly natural question. After all, weren’t “mission trips” all about doing something? Weren’t we supposed to build things, fix things, provide things to help the people we were going to see?

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