by admin | 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 admin | Mar 3, 2014 | Becoming a Missionary Mom, Beliefs, Community, Heather Webb, Mission, Uncategorized, Values, Village Life, Worldview
You know how when someone you love is hurting and you go into super-hyper-overdrive and have to DO something to try to help? My phone call with Prisca catapulted me into that mode and I couldn’t sit still. The following day, I boarded a bus with my 9 month old...
by admin | Feb 27, 2014 | Becoming a Missionary Mom, Community, Culture, Heather Webb, Uncategorized, Worldview
Baby Grace’s birth was marked by all the normal characteristics of a typical small town Tanzanian birth. So vastly different from anything we could ever imagine in the US, but pretty typical for Dodoma, nonetheless. The nine months leading up to her birth, however...
by admin | Feb 8, 2014 | Becoming a Missionary Mom, Community, Heather Webb, Mission, Spiritual Development, Uncategorized, Values, Worldview
When a woman in the US finds out she’s pregnant, she has about a million decisions to make. Where will she go for prenatal care? Will she find out the gender of the baby? What color will she paint the nursery? Where will she register for the baby shower? Does she need...
by admin | Dec 4, 2013 | Becoming a Missionary Mom, Beliefs, Community, Heather Webb, Uncategorized, Values
Pictured above is the post-it note that my 7 year old niece wrote the day I called home. Becoming a Missionary Mom, Part 3 They were the calls that changed our family. I had just found out I was pregnant after trying for 9 years. Our families and close friends had...
by admin | Oct 30, 2013 | Becoming a Missionary Mom, Community, Culture, Heather Webb, Uncategorized, Values, Worldview
Whisper it from the Mountaintops…because shouting would be culturally inappropriate! Becoming a Missionary Mom Part 2 (click here for some backstory) We left the clinic in a complete daze, our eyes wide with shock and smiles of disbelief ready to burst...
