Christmas Shopping

By |2016-12-08T16:35:58+00:00December 3rd, 2013|Blog|

Save the headache, skip the mall, support artists in Kenya and donate money to VG: buy a purse for your beloved (sister, wife, girlfriend, mother, friend) and bam! Done with Christmas gifts! 100% cotton, and awesome. Big enough for a [...]

Around Here…

By |2016-12-08T16:35:58+00:00June 11th, 2013|Blog|

On Saturday I came out of the kitchen to find all 6 kids on their hands and knees, circling the couch and mooing. ‘They’re crazy’, Mama Kim laughed, and I had to agree before reminding her that it meant they [...]

Welcome home. Finally.

By |2013-04-14T22:33:01+00:00April 14th, 2013|Blog|

They walk toward the house, single file along the thin and muddy path. Susan in front, then my friend Ann, then her niece, then her sister. The sister carries a broom. Ann carries the girl’s few belongings. I walk out [...]

Catching up(date)

By |2016-12-08T16:35:59+00:00April 1st, 2013|Blog|

Well, I'm a good six months behind on my blogging. Apologies to those of you who were hoping I'd actually keep in touch. I was a little discouraged by lack of progress (I know that doesn't actually translate to 'no [...]

Dilemmas and Sentence Fragments

By |2016-12-08T16:35:59+00:00September 13th, 2012|Blog|

I’ve been wrestling lately with finding balance between small efforts to help those in need, and focusing my time and energy on the big picture: the home for orphans, the school for children. I’ve made several friends in the slums [...]

Visible Grace Update!

By |2016-12-08T16:35:59+00:00September 7th, 2012|Blog|

Hello, friends! Some of you have not heard from me since I arrived in Kenya, and I apologise. Life has been moving pretty quickly here! I want to update you briefly on what has been going on the past few [...]

Hello world!

By |2012-08-30T02:29:34+00:00August 30th, 2012|Blog|

Welcome to the new look of Visible Grace on the internet! We're making a lot of changes in a short time, so please bear with us. We're going to be bringing all the old content, new content, and other exciting [...]

furniture please.

By |2012-08-23T12:04:00+00:00August 23rd, 2012|Blog|

In a stunning contrast to my post about the slums, we now want to provide children with beds, meals, clothing and other wonderful things that they are currently living without.Imagine a child who sleeps on the floor, eats one meal [...]

slums

By |2016-12-08T16:35:59+00:00August 12th, 2012|Blog|

We went to the slums last weekend. For a week now, I've been tossing words around in my head and on my laptop. I want to show you how people live. I want to show you their desperation, and their [...]

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