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A Different Kind of Trip

Posted on November 6, 2013March 22, 2021 by ptsblog
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  It’s that time of year again on the PTS campus when World Mission Initiative is recruiting students and others for the spring mission trips. As they gather together the last minute stragglers (I’m one), I can’t help but reflect on what it is that makes these trips different. I had been on mission trips before coming…

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Finding Your Inner “Duck”

Posted on October 16, 2013March 22, 2021 by ptsblog
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I am going to go out on a limb and reveal something that just might put me at risk, being a new person here and all.  But here goes. I love the duck.   There – I said it.  I love the duck. As I write this, a very large yellow duck is docked at…

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Year Two

Posted on September 19, 2013March 22, 2021 by ptsblog
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Here it is. Second year. It’s interesting reflecting on this now when this time last year I wasn’t even certain about the first year. In my mind I tried to romanticize it, a reckless nomad at heart daring to seek her path regardless of the obstacles that lay before her. In truth, I was nervous,…

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