by Karen Votaw | May 22, 2019 | Team Blog
Karen Votaw, Supervisor, The RTI Project 22 May 2019 Good morning this is how my day went yesterday… I spent all morning getting ready for lunch with the Chinese family. [Ed. note: We invited Ken and Winnie Chi and their two boys over to our place for lunch at...
by Dave Votaw | May 19, 2019 | Team Blog
A cross-cultural experience DAVE VOTAW RTI teacher on field work assignment I’ve known about this preaching assignment for a few months now. In our team meetings last winter, we decided that before Easter we would preach from the Gospel of John, and then after the...
by Dave Votaw | May 14, 2019 | Team Blog
Dave Votaw, Supervisor, The RTI Project 14 May 2019 Dinner out on our first night in country, with Samson and Sam, the students we are working with. Karen and I arrived here on Sunday, May 12 and it was immediately apparent that we were in a whole new world. Here are...
by Dave Hayden | Apr 21, 2019 | Team Blog
21 APRIL, 2019 As Cindy and I approach our departure from here, I find myself asking “What is it about this place?” Is it the “chance” meeting of the young man who was a child in our English class nine years ago? His family welcomed us into their home and provided an...
by Dave Hayden | Apr 13, 2019 | Team Blog
Daily Life in This Arab Land in 2019 13 APRIL, 2019 One may wonder what life is like for us here in the land we’ve been called to for this short time. My hope is to portray, through photos and short stories, our experience. The days tend to begin more slowly here than...
by Cindy Hayden | Apr 10, 2019 | Team Blog
Cindy Hayden, Supervisor, The RTI Project 10 April 2019 April 3 – It’s been unseasonably rainy here. The locals can tell you which year it is that there was so much rain, 1988! The rain has been accompanied by a lot of thunder and lightning which we have enjoyed...