by Kayla Norris | Jan 26, 2016 | Family, Missionary Kids, YWAM DTS
Dear Eager Young YWAMer, I saw your sparkling eyes, when I walked into my DTS classroom holding my one-year-old niece’s hand. I saw your shocked mouth, when that week’s amazing speaker called me out by name and bragged about my Kiwi parents. I saw those hungry...
by Kayla Norris | Jul 13, 2015 | Missionary Kids, YWAM DTS
I’m slouched in the black plastic chair– barely comprehending that this moment is colliding with my present. “These are the books you are going to be reading about how YWAM started…” our DTS leaders announce as they start handing out those...
by Kayla Norris | Jun 3, 2015 | Missionary Kids, Uncategorized, YWAM DTS
I can’t write. There’s just too much– too much clogging the byway of heart-to-fingers to write a blog post. Opinions of my current state of affairs are flying like a fresh fruit fight in a YWAM kitchen… along with memories… future thoughts… dreams… concerns… worries....
by Kayla Norris | May 6, 2015 | Kids & Teaching, Loving Jesus, Missionary Kids
“And why, pray, should I go for a useless walk now– or any time, for that matter?” he demanded sharply. David had shrunk back unconsciously, though he had still smiled. “Oh, but it wouldn’t be a useless walk, sir. Father said nothing was...
by Kayla Norris | Apr 19, 2015 | Loving Jesus, Missionary Kids, University, YWAM DTS
There was a moment in the latter half of last year where I ambled along a windy country path that looked like it was straight out of Pride and Prejudice. Silver ferns fanned out above my head, maples stood as sentinels at the foot of hills. Poplars and pines whispered...
by Kayla Norris | Apr 2, 2015 | Loving Jesus, Missionary Kids
I’d brushed past it before. Yeah, yeah, it’s the night before Jesus was delivered over to be crucified– his last night before betrayal, torture, death. Dad once told me that John 13-17 was worth paying attention to– because wouldn’t you say some of the most important...
