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...

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,...

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....

Mitch writing. Elections were held in Nepal and everything went smoothly. Election day itself and the following days of vote counting were quite uneventful. The party that won biggest, in an unprecedented (for Nepal's short history of democracy) landslide,...

Lora writing. We returned to life as a family of four the first full week of January. It is quiet- which is lovely, a bit of a relief actually. Also, it is quiet which is lonely, a bit of...

Lora writing. So while Mitch wrote last weekend about many of the things that have been happening close to home, this post is about some of those things that are further afield. But we will start with one close...

Mitch writing. The festival of lights in Nepal, called Tihar is one of our favourite times of the year. The rain is clearing, the mountains are coming out and the city is so festive. Tihar, is very similar to...

Lora Nafziger writing. Dear friends, I have been thinking a lot about praying in Nepal. It is something that I do a lot here, more often, or at least in more varied and notable ways than I did in...

Mitch Rhodes writing. I am starting this blog with a report on my trip to Doti, a district in the far west of Nepal. I was invited to tag along with a colleague of ours from UMN headquarters in...

Mitch Rhodes writing. UMN General Assembly Last week, Wednesday and Thursday, United Mission to Nepal hosted their biennial* General Assembly (*it happens every two years.) Besides UMN staff, it involves the UMN board, which has people from 5 countries. Also in...