An Opportunity to Teach Overseas
As a member of the Velvet Ashes community, we’re going to guess that being abroad is a significant part of your life (or one day will be). Maybe you’re...
Category: Global
Soul Sisters
From Africa: In the fall of 2015 I participated in my second round of Velvet Ashes Connection Groups. There were four of us who met faithfully on...
Apples of Gold That Don’t Rot In Our Mouths
I regretted the words as soon as I spoke them. The look on her face conveyed the pain I had unintentionally inflicted. In trying to offer encouragement,...
A Story of Hope and Grace
I was a young twenty-something single woman working on a team in the Northern Region of Ghana doing literacy work among the Dagomba. It was the summer of 1996. Our...
The Six Senses of Life Overseas
Nothing ever prepares you for arriving in the dark of night on a new continent. There isn't enough cultural sensitivity classes, language training or dining at a hole in the...
Thai Food Love: Coconut Lime Chicken
Where's your favorite place to eat? Does a certain city represent good food? Grandma's house? Your own kitchen? For me, it's on a larger scale: Thailand. Fortunately, we get to...
How a scared, non-writer found connection in writing
Writing. Just the word alone causes me to sweat and my heart to race. When we moved to eastern DRC almost seven years ago, I really...
Velvet Ashes Live- Chiang Mai, Thailand
The only thing better than connecting with all of you here in our online space would be to do it together in person! Are you in or near Chiang...
Bring It All Here
When I was only ten years old I remember sitting perched on the edge of a pew listening to a man tell about life on foreign shores serving the least....
