Annie B Garman

Motherhood, Mayhem, & The Meaning of Life

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So…we are in Finland.

The VISAS never came, and our second 90 day period on our passports is up.  We don’t know how long we’ll be here…we don’t know much except that we are together and in God’s hands. If you are not on our prayer team and would like to get monthly updates or weekly updates, just let us know. We flew into Helsinki, Finland and then drove 3 ½ hours north to a college town called Jyvaskyla. This place is strikingly similar to where I grew up: marshes, lakes, and HUNDREDS of trails for walking and Read More

Coffee with a Cause

Our friends at Pillar Church have been busy doing some really great work in Indonesia. Just last month they sent a team that is helping to establish and supply a much needed Orphanage there. Clint Clifton talks about the work in his blog post here.  Read all three updates, they are really worth reading.In the fall our friends will be opening up a coffee shop that will also serve as the base of operations for a new church start in Locust Grove, VA, lead by Jonathan Davis. The coffee shop will Read More

Middle of the Night

How do you shield your children from the reality of death? Do you pretend it isn't a fact of life and ignore it? Do you guard them from thinking about it and constantly divert their attention to juvenile things? Or do you talk candidly about it, helping them think about it in a healthy way? The reality of death is really everywhere.  You really can't teach your kids Bible stories without running into this theme rather quickly.  Disney films don't even try to hide the fact that people pass Read More

First time for everything

We are off to a weekend of camping four hours away (north).  In Iceland, they don't make bonfires when they camp, and it will never get dark tonight, so this should be interesting.  To add to it, this is the first time we have ever taken the kids camping and it's supposed to be cold this weekend.  I have packed thermals and winter gear.  Pray for us... Read More

Road Race (Icelandic style)

We finally discovered an Icelandic running website that advertises different races around here, so Friday night we decided to go to an evening race in the outskirts of Reykjavik. Colby and I both wanted to compete which meant the girls were coming with us in the jogging stroller. The 9K race started out on a very narrow trail, so Colby and the kids were literally in last place for the first mile in an effort not to hold any one up. The kids could not understand this, and the whole first mile I Read More

Role-Reversal

When I first came to LU as a freshman, I was a declared missions major.  I was going to Ecuador as a single woman missionary and I didn't need no man.  After my first week of freshman orientation in a classroom full of boys, my advisor Harvey Hartman gently counseled me to find another major.  He thought it would be wiser for me to find a trade to bring to another country, and after much praying and thinking, I switched my major to ESL (a brand new major at LU).ESL teachers were in such high Read More

Meet Annie

 

“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can’t see it. So quietly submit to be painted” -CS Lewis
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