Aug
26
2024
These days seem more and more normal and we continue to notice what we are grateful for in the mornings and afternoons when we hear the devotional/prayer bells ring. Some of our recent gratitude/happy things are making music (Ira...
Aug
10
2024
The days Lora and I have been going into the UMN office, we have been trying to bike. It's a quick fifteen-minute ride through traffic that is generally not very intimidating. The bike lanes painted on the main road...
Jun
26
2024
Mitch and I returned to our work. We now have 4-6 hours of language a week, a decrease from the 15-20 we were doing. And are now spending the rest of our time in our human resources jobs. I...
May
06
2024
I think most of you know that we are sponsored here in Nepal by the Presbyterian Church in Canada and Mennonite Mission Network, but perhaps you are wondering if we are ever getting around to doing any "real work"!...
Oct
29
2020
In March 2020, I was recalled from Hungary due to the pandemic. Leaving behind the friends I had made among the refugee community at Kalunba was difficult. The Covid-19 situation is not improving, and I will need to be...
Sep
29
2020
I’ve found myself explaining what I do an awful lot these days. People are discovering that I live in the Ottawa area so assume that I must be done with my work in Malawi. If people think of missionalary...
Jun
10
2020
Nora Martin & Steve McInnis
June 8, 2020
I thought I was finished writing about Malawi, but not so! There is one thing that I never wrote much about, and it's a project we were hoping to get more involved with....
Apr
17
2020
I have mentioned Lyca a number of times in my blogs, but today I want to talk more about her so you can understand why she has been so important to me. Lyca is one of the three volunteers...
Apr
07
2020
Nora Martin
We are still here in the apartment in Toronto, waiting out the last days of quarantine. We really look forward to getting out of the apartment, even just for a quick run to the grocery store!
We have prepared...
Apr
02
2020
On March 17th, I received the sad message from International Ministries that I was to return to Canada immediately, due to the escalating pandemic situation. It was dizzying, to frantically drop my newly settled life in Budapest and relocate...
