Northern Crossings

An extremely interesting man by the name of Fredrick Burnaby, a British Officer from the 19th century wrote a travelogue called “On Horseback Through Asia Minor” which is wonderful read.  The Russians who were...

When I was writing one of the blogs a while back I had running through my head Paul Simon’s ‘Kodachrome”.  The only way to shake a song that gets caught up in your brain is to go through a list of songs and hopefully break the...

Like all class pictures this one is trying to do too much.  Getting everyone into the picture means that it is hard to see a particular tree in the forest.  I am told that this is all or most of the children from the Project 24...

The dedication of the Project 24 center at Nyambiri was a wonderful event by all accounts.  The turnout was great and as the old saw goes, “a good time was had by all”.  The Bishop was there and wearing his high...

I was reading outside on my patio last night after the sun went down.  The light from the iPad denied me the ability to see around the yard without some sight adjustment, but I noticed that there was something that was whizzing...

http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/VIDEO-2018-08-07-12-22-01.mp4 Project 24 students welcoming children to the new Nyambira center by singing Paul Speratus Great Hymn “Savation Unto Us Has...

Folks arriving and having lunch at the new Nyambira Project 24 Center in Kenya.  The center will be officially opened and children placed later in this week.  Remember them in your prayers.           Share this on:...

You can read about them in Matthew 27:56.  We missed it.  Friday last was the commemoration of the myrrh bearers known  as Joanna. Salome and Mary.  These were women who cared for and maybe financed Jesus and the disciples in...

  We asked the question in our last blog, “if we are the “body of Christ”, and each individually members of it, how do we function in the universe in which all things are to be brought into Christ and under...

Rev. Dennis McManus is at Lutheran Island Camp today for their Annual Quilt Action.  He has a display concerning Project 24 and we hope you will stop by and say hi and support this joint project of the Minnesota North and North...

  The Creation bears witness to the fact that the Church was in existence at the beginning.  The act of God speaking to and being answered by our first parents shows the existence of the church, which is in reality a place where...

Folks might ask why we talk about politics and the issues of the day that seem to be intractable, when this is a mercy blog that should be talking about heavenly things and things of a spiritual nature?  The separation of church...

So our protagonists turn from the public phone, searching for germicidal hand gel, and face an officer of the law who has arrived in a squad car to “offer them aid”.  We take up the conversation “in situ”. BM – Ma’am I am...

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity”, said Yeats.  It is a sad time when discussing matters of law enforcement, one has to declaim that one honors, respects, and supports...