Almost no one knows where Burundi is. Usually the first response when we tell people where we're headed next is "where's that?...

It's an image burned into my mind. Young mother and father, standing on either side on a ICU bed, standing in the gap. Their baby, 3 m...

We know that it can often be difficult to pray for someone if you don't have regular interactions with them and know what their life is ...

Party #1 -- Thursday, March 10th in the afternoon (Elise's 4th Birthday) My little girl, Elise, turned 4 years old!  We had a small pa...

I actually wrote this song awhile ago, in medical school. Interestingly, the seeds of the songs were written in Balfate, Honduras, in my fi...

The McCropders are blessed with a wonderful home church in Ann Arbor, Michigan -- Knox Presbyterian.  Way back in 2007 when we first started...

Given that the rest of the McCropders are too polite to want to post after the birth of our baby, I guess it falls to us to resume some norm...

(For Rachel's perspective, click here ) I was not on call last night. For that matter, neither was Rachel, Alyssa , or the Popps . Neve...

Drs. Scott and Jennifer Myhre of World Harvest Mission, who accompanied Jason, John and Jess to Burundi, have put up their own account of th...

Rachel and I walked down to the waterfall today, because even term pregnant ladies need to stretch their legs or go stir-crazy. It's at...