by Kayla Stikeleather | May 25, 2014 | Alumni, Community, Generation Y, Mission, Student, Village Life
“H.e.a.r.t. kids are weird.” “They don’t talk to anyone but each other for a whole month.” “All they do is work in gardens, make their own food, and sing Kumbaya around the campfire.” “I don’t think any of them even shower.” These are all the things I heard about...
by Kayla Stikeleather | May 22, 2014 | Community, Uncategorized, Village Life
My wife, Abby, and I were h.e.a.r.t. students in the Fall of 2006. So much has changed since then and often I find myself contrasting what I knew with what I am now experiencing. Back then, the trees were just starting to recover from the wrath of Hurricanes Charley,...
by Kayla Stikeleather | Mar 17, 2014 | Appropriate Technology, Community, How To, Michael McDaniel, Uncategorized, Village Life
Over the years, the intense Florida sun destroyed the dashboard of the h.e.a.r.t. pickup truck. The plastic had become so brittle and broken that you could actually see the engine while sitting in the driver’s seat. At h.e.a.r.t., we believe in recycling and upcycling...
by Kayla Stikeleather | Mar 13, 2014 | Becoming a Missionary Mom, Beliefs, Community, Culture, Heather Webb, Theology, Uncategorized, Values, Village Life, Worldview
It was surgery day. Prisca had checked into the General Hospital the night before. A group of us went that morning to visit her and pray with her before she was taken to the OR for her hysterectomy. My stomach churned and I felt sick at the thought of what Prisca and...
by Kayla Stikeleather | Mar 10, 2014 | Becoming a Missionary Mom, Beliefs, Community, Culture, Heather Webb, Uncategorized, Values, Village Life, Worldview
I felt like I had been kicked in the gut. My closest Tanzanian friend and colleague in ministry had a mass growing on her uterus, her health was quickly declining and she was about 7 weeks pregnant. There was no high tech imaging machinery in Dodoma to get a clear...
by Kayla Stikeleather | Mar 6, 2014 | Community, Dr. Mike Webb, Spiritual Development, Theology, Values, Village Life
As we prepare for the upcoming h.e.a.r.t. Men’s Rustic Retreat I’ve been thinking a lot about the men in my life who have been mentors, encouragers, examples, etc. and the list is very long. A well-known passage of scripture tells us, “As iron sharpens iron, so one...
