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Stop Crying

I know I’m made for more⁣ And I deeply hate this limiting season...⁣ ⁣ But let this limitation be not the reality of life⁣, but the...

Raeanne Newquist

Nov 16, 20213 min read

Dark Night

I recently completed another trip around the sun. With each passing year, I hope that I am wiser and living more as the woman God created...

Raeanne Newquist

Aug 5, 20217 min read

new job

A few weeks ago my husband and I drove onto the Mercy Ships campus in East Texas for a week of training. After arriving in DFW, hitting...

Raeanne Newquist

May 10, 20212 min read

Reflections from Dakar: I Will Not Believe

A highlight in Dakar was going to church with our patients, either in the hospital on Deck 3 or at the Hope Center. On this morning, we...

Raeanne Newquist

Apr 22, 20214 min read

Merry Christmas

(this is to be read in the cadence of the traditional poem "'Twas The Night Before Christmas") 'Twas the night before Christmas and all...

Raeanne Newquist

Dec 24, 20202 min read

A Weary World Rejoices

I’ve been thinking about the night Jesus was born – like using my imagination and trying to truly picture that night in my mind. I’ve...

Raeanne Newquist

Dec 17, 20204 min read

Not Yet

The Advent season has begun, when we celebrate the coming of Jesus, the messiah. Advent Dictionary.com defines advent as: A coming into...

Raeanne Newquist

Dec 2, 20205 min read

House of Peace - a little family update

We walked up the hill asking each other, "are we doing the right thing? should we sign this lease?" Our lack of confidence in the...

Raeanne Newquist

Aug 31, 20203 min read

A Time To Grieve

As we pulled away from the dock in Dakar on March 27th, I fully expected to break down. I was outside on Deck 8 with most of the crew,...

Raeanne Newquist

Jul 28, 20206 min read

So Much I Don't Know

This post is honest and a bit embarrassing. I'm embarrassed by how much I don't know about slavery and how little I was taught in school...

Raeanne Newquist

Jul 14, 20204 min read

We Are Together

It was Saturday, March 14th. All at once we were told that we were no longer allowed to leave the ship and we were beginning to shut down...

Raeanne Newquist

Jun 1, 20205 min read

Flower By Flower

I sat on the patio enjoying the tranquility of time alone when a familiar buzzing zoomed past me. I quickly looked around to find the...

Raeanne Newquist

May 28, 20202 min read

Not Until the Last One Is Gone

When we arrived on the ship, there was not a French teacher for the Academy. My girls had started French last year in school and my hope...

Raeanne Newquist

May 13, 20203 min read

Just As He Said

We just celebrated Easter and each year the same question goes through my mind, Why weren’t the disciples camped outside of the tomb,...

Raeanne Newquist

Apr 16, 20205 min read

Right Here, Right Now

This was in the first care package we received in Dakar and I've worn it everyday ever since I opened it. "This place where you are right...

Raeanne Newquist

Mar 26, 20202 min read

Mack in Senegal

The decision to uproot your kids and move half way across the globe isn't easy. Once the novelty wears off and you're left with a new...

Raeanne Newquist

Mar 11, 20203 min read

Celebration of Sight

I never knew a child could be born with cataracts. Mossane was born blind because of cataracts. She received surgery here to remove her...

Raeanne Newquist

Mar 4, 20202 min read

Mariama *Patient Highlight

Mercy Ships runs a dental clinic in a town about 45 minutes from the ship. It's an incredible place where patients receive free dental...

Raeanne Newquist

Feb 8, 20202 min read

Aliou * Patient Highlight

Meet Aliou! When he was 3 years old, his blanket caught fire, severely burning him. If this happened to one of my children, I would have...

Raeanne Newquist

Jan 23, 20201 min read

Trust and Obey

I sat on the couch alone, 1am, wide awake because in Senegal it was 9am. The house was quite as everyone else slept and I sat with my...

Raeanne Newquist

Jan 17, 20203 min read