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Sink or swim I’m diving in!

February 22, 2012
Adventures
Admissions

This past week has been really hard. God is doing a lot, but it’s in ways that is stretching me out of something that I am very comfortable in. God has been asking me to learn how to be vulnerable with Him and with the people around me. And, honestly, I don’t like it. It hurts, and it scares the crap out of me. I’ve become so comfortable in not being vulnerable that I don’t even know what it looks like to be vulnerable. I know how to be “vulnerable” and open about past experiences and how God has grown me in them, but I don’t like, and don’t...

Worship isn’t Circumstantial

February 22, 2012
Adventures
Reflections

This week has been a really challenging week but has taught me so much. Many team members have had some very tragic things going on at home with friends and family members. Sometimes it's hard to see God in tragic situations but I'm learning that my worship can't be based on my circumstances. I can't just worship God through the good and abandon him when things aren't going perfectly. Without pain, there would be no need for worship. I may not understand God's ways or why bad things happen, but I do know God's character. His love is always unconditional, his ways...

Me and Mary pushed the truck cause it ran out of gas.

February 22, 2012
Adventures
Life on the Field

So right now, I’m sitting in the HIV/AIDS office. I usually don’t blog till I have internet access, but at the moment there’s only work here for one of us sooo… Ally’s doing it 😀 …I promise I offered to. I know that people in America are aware of the problems with HIV and AIDS in Africa, but it’s definitely something that has been consistently reaffirmed while working in this office. Several times a week we just go through names and names and names of the people in various districts around here who are coming to Victory...

You Are Beautiful Like a Monkey

February 22, 2012
Adventures
General Posts

Yin icil chalo ayom! (You are beautiful like a monkey in the local language, Luo) I was told this this week by my wonderful friend Oliver! 😉 I have A LOT to say, but I really feel like my team said it all this week. So for my family and friends following this blog, I ask that you take time to read their blogs this week. All I will leave you with is a request for prayer this Friday (or Thursday night back home). I will be bringing the word of the Lord, a.k.a. preaching at Lunch Hour Prayer at Victory Outreach Church. Blessings to you all in Jesus name! Somer Rae

“I am going to America!”

February 22, 2012
Adventures
General Posts

Her 8 year old self doesn't have an ounce of doubt in her voice as she declares that she is going to America. Her name is Oliver and her personality is as vibrant as her bright purple uniform. The first day I met her I found her a little pushy and never would have guessed that she would pull on my heart strings the way she does. There are days that her smile is the one thing that keeps me going. I ask her if she will visit me when she comes to America and she can barely get a yes out through her giggling. Her bright eyes bring more joy to my life than I ever could have imagined. S...

My Friend Geoffrey

February 22, 2012
Adventures
Life on the Field

This is the story of my new friend Geoffrey. June 7th, 2000. Geoffrey was attending Senior One at his school about five kilometers outside of Lira, Uganda. He was fifteen years old. One night, a group of LRA soldiers broke into the boys dorm at the school and arrested Geoffrey as well as thirty-eight others. They layed on their stomachs and were tied behind their backs. They were assembled along a roadside and were addressed by someone who told them they may be disturbed bu Ugandan forces. As they made their way through the bush they captured others as well. The way Geoffrey described life...

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