// Frame grab: Erika gets to know a woman at Centro Maná, a Compassion-like program for at-risk children and their parents in a rough neighborhood of Mexico City. // In Mexico City, residents like to joke (or maybe complain) about the stereotype of Mexicans that many Americans hold. The image of the sombrero-wearing, burrito-loving field …
PHOTO: San José, Costa Rica at dusk. Andy Olsen photo In the tidy living room in San José, we were making a cross-cultural mess. Bittinia, 37, was a Costa Rican missionary to Northern India. Her husband, Sunil, sat beside her awkwardly on the couch. They had met and married in his native India and were …
We like to talk about the LAM “family.” As an organization whose missionaries all work for different ministries in many countries, maintaining our common identity is not an easy task. So we talk about being family. Last week I had the sweet privilege of sharing a meal with some of that family while in Chicago. …
PHOTO: A sampling of some of our coworkers at the LAM office in Miami. We love all of them, a great team. Andy Olsen photos Yesterday, after hanging up from a call with a colleague in Costa Rica and confirming a lunch appointment with an old friend there later this month, I sat back in …