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I am NOT just a really friendly traveler!

June 4, 2012
Adventures
Admissions

Do we [Christians] look any different than those who do nice things? If there is a difference, what is it? Niceness is not our calling as Christians. Romans 1:16, " For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." This message is the difference. We are NOT humanitarians because we have the gospel of Jesus Christ. I am not just a really friendly traveler. We bring a message. We bring the voice of God and His name that is above every name. When we say we are Christians, I proclaim...

“I don’t need you”

June 4, 2012
Adventures
Admissions

On Friday evening, strangers sat around the dinner table filling the air with small talk. Conversing and racking our brains for questions to ask these people we would live life with for the next two months. The next few days kept us busy building shelters we needed to trust to sleep in, making banners representing our team as a whole, play-act witnessing to a tribe that knew no English and spit water in your face, and using teamwork to succeed at the various activities planned for us. Overcoming the awkwardness and diving deeper into each others stories has brought us together. Today,...

Futile. Futile. Futile.

June 4, 2012
Adventures
Training Camp

That is what I've heard relentlessly the past four months. And it is a lie: a total lie. I have purpose, and I intend to fulfill it. The past four months have been a particularly perilous season in my life; it has been a time of confusion and clarity, impossible and improbable, smoke and mirrors, the effaceable and the inevitable. The past four days have been a culmination of all those things, a marvelous release of things cramped within so long one hardly knows how to utter them anymore. I had a tight-taught, chaotic mess of thoughts, so dense and so...

She is with her Daddy

May 23, 2012
Adventures
Reflections

I was heartbroken to hear that Beautiful little Esther passed away last night. This little girl truly has changed my life and I am so grateful I got to know her. I was trusting and believing for healing and I guess she was healed, just differently than I had hoped. Although I am confused and upset, I know that God's plan is so much greater than mine. I know that Esther is now with her Daddy up in heaven and she is no longer suffering. Esther loved to sing and she now gets to sing forever to her king! I also am so grateful that just a few days before she passed...

Final Reflections from Home

May 20, 2012
Adventures
Reflections

I have now been back in the U.S. for a week and a half and wanted to share some final reflections about the trip. I’ll try to cover a variety of topics and give you my main takeaways in each area – obviously no blog could adequately summarize four months of experiences, emotions, and growth, but I’ll at least try to hit the highlights. I want to start by talking about what I learned about God during my time in Uganda. During my time there, the idea of God’s provision just kept becoming apparent to me. The first couple weeks were difficult for me...

Debrief in Jinja

May 5, 2012
Adventures
Reflections

Sorry I wrote this blog on Wednesday, but didn’t get a chance to post it until today – so the content is a few days late – we’re in Jinja now staying at a hostel with an amazing view overlooking the Nile and we’ll start the flight home on Monday. I’ll have some more thoughts about leaving to post later. Today marks our last Wednesday in Uganda. We will be leaving from Lira early on Friday morning and heading to Jinja where we will relax and “debrief” for 2 days before heading to Entebbe and flying home. The past...

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