Amazon is a person in quarantine’s best friend … especially when you’re dying for a little summer entertainment. My latest purchase from Amazon was a package of 200 water balloons. Since so many places are still closed due to social distancing, I thought it would be...
The coronavirus brought an early end to this year’s Children of the World choir tour. The choir was on the West Coast when the virus began spreading quickly throughout the U.S., so they’ve been sheltering in place in the state of Washington since March. Long-time...
“We hope this quarantine will not be extended because I am afraid people will not be able to survive.” Our Peru partner prayed those words in mid-April. It’s now a month later … and the lockdown is extended to the end of May. Just as she feared, people are...
“As I speak right now, we are a little over two weeks into our 21-day lockdown, and I can tell you right now most people are on their last meal.” In Zimbabwe, lockdown doesn’t just mean isolation. It means starvation. When we last spoke to our Zimbabwean partner, the...
For many people, the words “quarantine” and “social distancing” conjure up images of working from home, turning your dining table into a makeshift classroom for the kids, or watching a church service through Facebook Live every Sunday. But these now common words hold...