Sending Love Overseas

by Carissa VanDalen on December 20, 2011
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I regret to admit that my generation has really lost the art of writing a creative and personal letter. My peers and I remember learning to write letters and having pen pals, but we also remember when email was invented (for me, during middle school). Though we have adopted new forms of communication that are [...]

Dear “Abby”…

by Carissa VanDalen on March 30, 2010
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An open letter to our friend and faithful women’s Bible study leader, Abby Gjertsen

Carissa’s First Urbana Post!

by Carissa VanDalen on December 31, 2009
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In 2007, I went to Salerno, Italy with Campus Crusade for Christ. In our week of training prior to venturing to Italy, I learned a key phrase that has stuck with me: “It’s not weird/bad; it’s different.” We used this phrase a lot in Italy when we would feel the urge to judge the Italian [...]