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This post has been edited and updated as of October 2025 *NEW updates/rewording as of Oct 16 Have you ever had your bubble burst? For example, maybe back in the day you tried out for the football team and realized weren’t really the bomb-dot-com quarterback you thought you were? Or maybe things were looking good for you to have an empty seat next to you on that flight... but then the very last passenger to board was sat next to you? Or how about the time the missionaries tol
NA Peveto
Nov 11, 202011 min read
Adjustments
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Alyssa
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Alyssa
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I See You.
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Alyssa
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Making Lemonade
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Alyssa
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Kingdom Work
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Alyssa
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Easier Said Than Done
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Alyssa
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Hold My Baby
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Alyssa
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Hello, My Name Is...
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Alyssa
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Hope for the Hopeless
I've never been abused. I've never been raped. I've never been assaulted. Yet, I'm ministering to women and girls who have been abused......
Alyssa
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Third Time's A Charm?
We regret to inform our readers that from this day forward we will be remaining in Zambia and will not be returning to the States. Just...
Alyssa
Apr 23, 20172 min read
Well-being and Calamity
Disappointment. We all know it well. It recently hit us pretty hard when we went to the airport to fly home to Zambia and discovered that...
Alyssa
Mar 31, 20173 min read
Reflection of the Heart
When I tell people about how God broke my heart for reaching the lost and called me to be a missionary, I tell them this: “I always knew...
Alyssa
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Equipped
"It takes a special kind of person to be a missionary." We hear these words a lot. A whoooole lot. I guarantee that we've heard that...
Alyssa
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