Author: Adventures

This Is It

(I wrote this blog on Friday but haven't been able to post it until now. After 40 hours of air travel, we finally arrived in Atlanta, and I am headed to Calgary tomorrow! Enjoy this last blog, and thanks again for your support! See you so soon!!) I can't believe this trip is actually coming to an end, and that I'll be back in Calgary in just a few days. I say 'trip', but after living somewhere for over 3 months, it starts to become your home, your normal, your usual life, and leaving the place also means leaving people and things that have become comfortable and loved...

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Thank You

As the trip has come to an end there are so many things I have truly loved and will miss terribly that I never thought I would. I never thought I would be physically exhausted and sweating after worship at church from so much singing and dancing. I never thought I would find myself leading worship in front of the entire Makobore student body. I never thought I would look forward to drinking porridge and eating posho and beans with Ugandan teenage boys every day. I never thought I would make friends with a man named Pius that works at a gas station in town and look forward to seeing him...

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Africa Is-

As I prepare to go home, I am bracing myself for the countless times I will be asked "How was Africa?" by people who expect a short 1 or 2 minute response summarizing the past 4 months of my life. Africa is somehow indescribable, but the following list is my attempt to put words to the incredible things I have seen, felt and done throughout this season of my life. Africa is sitting in a classroom for hours with 19 year old Benedict as he shares how God has worked in his life, walking 11 year old Rechael to school, holding partially naked toddler Shelly while she sings and babbles...

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Beauty from the Ashes

As I sat in the middle of a worship service at the prison in Rukungiri with the African sun beating down on me, listening to dozens of inmates praise the Lord in Runyankole, I scribbled down a note that read "God can redeem anything." Over the course of these past 3 months, my heart has been overwhelmed by the brokenness that saturates this place, the darkness that is real and tangible and hangs over your head like a blanket. But this week, as the trip draws to a close and we prepare to leave Uganda for home, God has been faithful to burst into that darkness with marvelous...

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Yesu Nankukunda!

Wow. Where do I even begin? The last couple months have been all over the place. I have been happy, sad, frustrated, excited, and every emotion in between. As amazing as this adventure has been so far, I have experienced more weariness than I think I have in my whole life. There has been weariness in every form: emotional, spiritual, physical. The emotional has come from everywhere. First of all, living in a house with 15 other people, not the easiest thing to jump into! Not that I don't love showering in a room where 3 other girls sleep without a door on the shower, ha! But yeah, it is...

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Wherever the Road Leads

2 and a half months ago, Collin met a high school student at the cathedral where we attended a church service. Today, after visiting 2 primary schools and 3 wells, I bounced around in the bed of a pickup truck headed for the Congo, having to stop on our way home to let herds of elephants cross the road. To anyone else, these 2 events might seem like random snapshots of my life in Africa. But to me, and 5 of my teammates, the chain connecting the two were so clearly and undeniably orchestrated by God, to lead us exactly where we needed to be, at exactly the right time. Though our story had...

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