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Years ago I hiked up a mountain above the Kijabe mission compound in Kenya with my parents, who spent years there as medical missionaries. Monkeys mov...
We are sending out squad after squad this fall, and every one of them gets a different opening chapter. Gap Year Squad 4 may have the most striking on...
There is a second squad launching this fall, and their year begins in a place with a long memory.For the next nine months, Fall Gap Year Squad 2 will ...
Every fall, a new group of young people says goodbye to everything familiar and steps out to chase after God in places they have never been. This fall...
Every year around this time, I watch the same thing happen in a parking lot. A mom keeps her hand on her son's shoulder a few seconds longer than...
I will never forget flying to the Amazon jungle with Barry Conner in 1997. We had flown past the Andes as the sun came up. The week before, Barry...
We get the emails and texts from parents every week. They read the headlines and they worry. War in the Middle East. Political chaos at home. Eco...
I watched something happen in Guatemala a few weeks ago that I have not been able to shake. We had two groups of young people serving side by side at ...
Something is shifting and I can feel it.For decades, the American script has been simple. Graduate high school. Go to college. Get a degree. Get a job...
Something happened this summer that barely made the news. Congress passed a law that will quietly reshape the way Americans think about education. Sta...
