Lora writing. Each fall that we have been here has brought national grief: widespread flooding in 2024, the political uprising in 2025, and now, yesterday, there was devastation in Nepal, perhaps unlike anything that has ever been seen. The video footage is awful (and I would recommend that you don’t watch much of it, if […]

Lora writing. One of our major tasks of the summer was sharing about the work of UMN. Mitch and I both love our work and think the work of the organisation as a whole is pretty amazing too. So, this task was not difficult. I preached 10 Sunday morning sermons and spoke to three high […]

In my last post, I announced the start of the PCC funded “AI for Good Pilot Project” at the UMN office in Kathmandu (Thapathali). We have changed the name of the project to: “AI for Poverty Reduction in Rural Nepal” to make it more descriptive of what we are trying to accomplish. A big first […]

Lora writing. I had this blog partially written when on Thursday night (Kathmandu time, only 48 hours ago) before I had a chance to finish and share it, I received a phone call that my mother, Gloria, had died. My mom was 71 and was in seemingly good health. The call was as unexpected as […]