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Hope Is Alive

September 12, 2012
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One of my favorite things about traveling is experiencing God's presence in all different kinds of places. It's so easy to put God in a box- to put Him in the church, or summer camp, or the state of Pennsylvania, or even the continent of North America, but how quickly He bursts out of that box. The first time I forreal experienced this overwhelming excitement about this realization (sorr for all the super big words!) was when I was touring Europe earlier this summer. It just randomly struck me one day, that the same God that was transforming kids' lives back home at camp, was...

Living Rain

September 9, 2012
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"Living rain, fall again. Over my life over my land. Living rain wa–" I was suddenly distracted from listening to one of my favorite songs by Parachute Band to see one of my team mates, Haddie grab her guitar and head outside into the rain. Let It Rain was her go to song, it looks like there was a common theme. My other roomies and I crowded around the door watching the rain fall, and then pour. One by one we ran out into the courtyard and joined her in worship and praise. As thunder filled the sky,...

Dry Clean Only.

September 9, 2012
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“I’m sitting on the floor in the” That was all I managed to get written down in my journal before I sat up, grabbed my guitar (accompanied by strange looks from my team mates..), and plopped down in a puddle and began to sing. Let it Rain. Cue the harmonizing thunder. Cue the torrential downpour. I live in Seattle. I know rain. This was not normal rain, this was divine. I wish you had been there, I wish you could have felt what I felt in that moment, I don’t know how else to explain it to you other than telling you that my skirt was dry...

Light of the World.

September 9, 2012
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Today marks one week that my team and I have been in Africa! Already we have experienced so much, and see hurt in people that you couldn't fathom without being here to witness it. We've met a blind lady well into her fifty's, prisoners that never will taste freedom again, children begging for the gum out of your mouth just to get a taste, and the sweetest little girl that you can imagine and finding out from her mom that she is dying of HIV/AIDS. Despite all of this hurt and pain, there is a light that just shines from these people unlike any I have ever seen. Their faces light...

A violent disturbance.

September 8, 2012
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“She knows its raining outside, right?” My thought as Haddie grabbed her guitar and headed out to the courtyard into the rain. I’m sure she new what she was doing, and I was getting ready for bed, so I wasn’t terribly bothered by what was going on until I heard it. One of the loudest claps of thunder I’ve ever heard. “Um, okay God, do you want me to go outside?” Another clap not 30 seconds later answered that question and I walked to the door. “Are you sure you want me outside? It’s really wet out there, and cold too. I’m...

Month 9 1/2.

September 5, 2012
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Kenya: September – November 2010. Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania: January – May 2012. Uganda: August – December 2012. If you would have told me that two years ago I’d be spending a total of 12ish out of the next 24 months in East Africa I would have laughed. But here I am again, back in East Africa for the third time since I left my precious bubble in September 2010. I guess the joke is on me! Although I would have laughed a couple years ago at the thought of all of this, I can’t picture my life any other way. You know how you get that feeling some place and...

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