Author: Adventures

So since being here I have been wrestling with whether or not I should be a “roadie” for Invisible Children when I get home from Africa. It has been tough because I haven’t known what I wanted to do with my life once I get home. But, this past weekend has been confirmation that I need to go for it and gain that experience.   On saturday, we went to Gulu to celebrate Darby’s birthday (one of the team members) and meet up with a contact we had named Collins. Collins was a Ugandan roadie and she gave me a lot of great information and stories behind being a roadie...

On Friday afternoon while our team was meeting with the HIV/AIDS positive living support group at VOC a man crawled through the church doors and collapsed on the ground. He had bad wounds (to the bone) on each ankle as well as a big gash in one of his fingers. The wounds had been poorly stitched at one point in time, but had come apart and were now open and clearly infected. His name was Atim Tony and apparently he had been beaten by a man who found out Tony was sleeping with his wife. Mary, Marissa, (they are going to be top notch nurses) and I took Tony to the hospital in the church...

     Yesterday, I went to the hospital to visit a man named Tony. My team met Tony last Friday when he was dropped off at Victory Outreach Church. He had been beaten by a woman’s husband about two weeks earlier and his wounds were very infected. So infected, in fact, that he was unable to walk and his hands and feet were swollen to almost double their size. Some teammates of mine took him to the hospital and have been visiting him everyday since. Tuesdays are when our team does our weekly hospital visits. We go and pray with patients in different wards. It is...

Monday morning my two room-mates and I got up not expecting much of the day. We were tiered and ready for our day off. Our team leaders sent us out to "do as Jesus did". So what did we decided to do? Feed 5,000. We were debating whether we should get 5 chapatti or 7. When we got to the chapatti stand there were only 5 left. We were excited because Jesus only had 5 loaves of bread available to him, so it was perfect! We decided to go to the hospital to hand out the chapatti outside where people were waiting. We prayed over the chapatti (yes folks, we stood on the side of the...