5 lessons I learned in my first year in Colombia
As May comes to a close we wanted to highlight one of our team members Kat Guild. She's on the website but this was a unique...
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Angelynn Ballew
- May 27, 2021
- 4 min
Kneel. Stand. Walk.
I should have seen this coming. These types of scenarios lend themselves to deep conversations. Mostly empty and picked-over plates and...
Angelynn Ballew
- Feb 22, 2021
- 1 min
Wild & Free by Taylor Ballew
Our oldest daughter; Taylor, created a cool video for one of her school projects using all of her new found talents in video work. It is...
Angelynn Ballew
- Feb 17, 2021
- 4 min
Festivity & Wonder
As Christmas and New Year come and go, most of the world plunges into their work. Barranquilla, however, takes a short breath and...
Angelynn Ballew
- Oct 17, 2020
- 6 min
Extending the Hand
I am a mess. However, as I sit here all packed in with our family on the airplane to Barranquilla, I recognize that the tears, the panic...
Joel Ballew
- Dec 6, 2019
- 5 min
Delighting in the Ride
The streets are packed with cars, buses, pedestrians crossing, delivery bikes and motorcycles. Getting home from orchestra classes on a week
Angelynn Ballew
- Nov 22, 2019
- 1 min
#GivingTuesday
All non-profits, religious organizations and even us missionaries focus on the "end of the year giving" as a very important time...
Angelynn Ballew
- Jun 15, 2019
- 4 min
A Year of Mangoes
One year…. Two seasons…. Mango season, and non-mango season. The first morning when I stepped out of our AirBnB and onto the street, I...
Angelynn Ballew
- Mar 29, 2019
- 3 min
Church Planting: An Insider's Look
Church planting in the United States is not for the faint of heart. Add in a 2nd culture and you can forget the faint of heart......
Angelynn Ballew
- Mar 18, 2019
- 2 min
Semana Santa: What is it?
Cathedrals, churches and plazas will be crammed with congregations in Colombia for Holy Week, or 'Semana Santa' in Spanish; for a lot of...
Angelynn Ballew
- Dec 11, 2018
- 3 min
Mission Misfit
I feel the sweat beading down my back as I rush around. Did I remember to put the ice cubes on the table? Do we have enough chairs? Yes....
Angelynn Ballew
- Aug 17, 2018
- 3 min
"Teammates"
There is a reason for the word teammates being in quotation marks, I promise. Keep reading! We will get there. Our Colombian counterparts...
Joel Ballew
- Jun 22, 2018
- 4 min
Colombian Life
No we aren't experts, we aren't even rookies yet. But life is unique here. I am sure any missionary can say that about the country they...
Angelynn Ballew
- May 28, 2018
- 4 min
The House, Real Estate Agent & God
Want to hear a crazy story???? Check out the below from a message I sent close friends of ours recently. So much has been happening here...
Angelynn Ballew
- Jan 30, 2018
- 3 min
Identity In Light of Eternity
Our sandals clop methodically as we saunter down the clean, reflecting tiles of the massive Viva! Centro Comercial. The sea of tan,...
Angelynn Ballew
- Dec 5, 2016
- 3 min
This is it!
Sitting in a van on separate benches driving down the palm tree laden streets of Barranquilla on our way to our hotel, Joel and I had...
Angelynn Ballew
- Aug 17, 2016
- 1 min
12degreesnorth.org is Alive
Thank you all for staying put as we got the website up! It wasn't easy but we got it done. We will be putting all of our updates here so...
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