Real people talk Team Davis
So, we’re fundraising, and a stack of people have got us three quarters of the way to our target. Here are some words from some of them about why they reckon it’s worth doing.
From awkward to outrageous to necessary to good
Tanzanians love to talk about money, and publicly too. At the end of year service for Elliot’s school in Dodoma, parents all lined up to make very public donations to the school, even if they were very small. There were some pretty big donations too, a source of honour for the donor. […]
More than rebels: How a theology of brokenness helps women
I’ve been having lots of conversations here in Australia about brokenness, guilt and how these things are particularly poignant for women. Consider the woman who yells at her child, or the one who is Facebooking when her child’s asking her to build a GUP out of Duplo (again!), or the one […]
When I’m asked, ‘Is it safe?’
I read a brilliant article the other day about the question, ‘But, is it safe?’ We’re getting this question all the time as we prepare to go back to Tanzania. At one level I think people are probably just asking, ‘is there a war on there?’ because that’s the common portrayal […]
On grief: returning to Tanzania
Before we left for Tanzania the first time, I wrote a series on risk. There were so many unknowns: how were we thinking about them? We know life in Tanzania a bit now. Things seem less risky. We are not fearful about returning to Tanzania. Instead, in this last month before […]
Cross-cultural parenting: on being changed by our time in Australia
When Elliot and I arrived in Australia, I had to give a tremendous amount of energy to thinking about how we would get along in Australia, since Elliot’s upbringing and my parenting had been influenced by our context in Tanzania. Since then we’ve both learned some things about how to […]
On 10 years of marriage
“The first year of marriage is really hard,” we heard over and over again in the lead up to our wedding, so I set my expectations low and braced myself for conflict. Would it be about how to squeeze the toothpaste and the cleanliness of the house, or would it be over […]
Meet Jesus at uni 