LIVING

War....Huh...Yeah.......What is it good for? Absolutely nothing......say it again. I grew up listening to the Springsteen remake of this song. Now that I have filled your head with the earworm that is the song "War" I want you to know something. Are you ready? War is good for nothing. I hate it and I despise it. I know that there might be times when someone has to go to war but war is almost always terrible......almost. When is war not terrible? When it's a thumb war. Between

Before we volunteered to work with OUR aftercare we had a vision in our heads of what we would be doing every day. We thought that we would be going to after care centers, orphanages, and at risk neighborhoods doing work. We thought we were going to roll up our sleeves and get a little mud on our faces as we performed physical helping with water projects, sanitary pipelines, garbage cleanup, and whatever else was asked of us. In the two suitcases per person that we brought wi

Article Written by Mason. 11 years old. Today I would like to tell you about what we do here. We go to the orphanage and give the girls love and we show them how we are as a family, and what a family looks like. We also go to the village. We teach them to read so that they can go to school and have a good job wen they grow up. We teach them how to protect themselves from being trafficked. At the aftercare center we teach them English so that they can have a job that is

"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives." Robert South There are times when I take stock of my life and I think about what I am willing to give. I do it to try and measure where I stand when it comes to different qualities. I think it is generally acceptable to think this way. I wonder if other people do the same thing in their lives. We review where we rate on various virtues to see where we can improve. If we do it with hum

Operation Underground Railroad puts a lot of time and effort into ensuring that the children that are rescued from sex trafficking have a good place to live once they are rescued. While we volunteer for Operation Underground Railroad in a foreign country we are trying to build good relationships with potential after care centers and orphanages that are willing to accept and rehabilitate those rescued children. We visit several orphanages and after care homes and volunteer to

We all have to make daily decisions. We all try to do our best to make good choices and do things that help others instead of hurt them. Often times Michael and I are presented with situations that leave us wondering if we made the correct decision! Each week Michael and I help with a literacy program in an impoverished neighborhood where the average monthly income is about $200. This neighborhood we have nicknamed, "the village" is highly targeted by traffickers because of t

We were recently interviewed by a magazine. We corresponded back and forth through email. We thought it was a good way to describe how we came to be at this point in our lives. Below are the question and answers between us and the writer for the magazine. How did you guys first reach the decision to sell pretty much everything and go out on a adventure? It was a long process and it’s hard to define one moment where we made the decision. In 2007 I left a very secure job at a

One of my best friends emailed me recently because he wanted to find out what we were actually doing in a foreign country. I thought that my response to him would give you a good idea about what we hope to accomplish. We are currently volunteering for a non-profit organization called Operation Underground Railroad. It is an organization that rescues children from human trafficking. They have two main areas of focus: Rescue and Aftercare. The rescue teams consist of former spe