Adventures – Page 6

Beautiful Things

February 16, 2013
Adventures
Life on the Field

After being in Uganda for about a month, there have been so many amazing opportunities for ministry. I’ve been able to teach math and science classes, preach a sermon last Sunday morning on Mark 9:42-50 and start to build relationships with the students of Makobore High School. Preaching in church was extremely nerve wrecking but also incredibly encouraging and rewarding spiritually. Mark 9:42-50 says, “But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone hung around your...

Crazy Love

February 16, 2013
Adventures
Life on the Field

God is absolutely ridiculous. In the past two days so many things have happened i don't even know where to begin. I suppose the beginning would be a swell place… 7 of us from the team had to go get our visas renewed because at the airport they only gave us 1 month. We were supposed to get 3. Anyways, we got in our driver's car at 8:30 am thursday after devotions at the school anticipating 4 four hour trip to Mbarara. When we got there then we found out they wouldn't do it for us. They said we would have to drive to Kampala to do it. Another 4 hours away… We got to...

Rooted in Christ

February 12, 2013
Adventures
Admissions

This is a city that needs prayer. God sent prayer warriors. This is a city in need of the love of their Father. Our Father sent lovers. This is a city that is ready to worship their creator, and boy did He send worshippers. Ephesians 3:17-18 "So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through fath. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love may have power together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ." It is so encouraging to see God working through this team of 14 college aged students. He knew the purpose...

Those who can, teach

February 9, 2013
Adventures
Life on the Field

One prayer that has really been laid on my heart is for God to continue to push me out of my comfort zone. And after the first full week of ministry at Makobore High School for boys, He has done just that. After our morning devotion with the students, they all go to class. As we found ourselves on Thursday with not much to do, two teammates and I went to the headmaster to ask if there was anything we could do to help out. He asked me which classes I liked, I told him math and science. He looked at his schedule, then back at me and said “okay you go teach physics class.”...

#welcometoAfrica

February 9, 2013
Adventures
Life on the Field

"I think this is the craziest thing that I've ever seen/done/experienced." I feel as though I say this sentence or something like it almost every day here, which is a wonderful thing. New experiences are around every corner and it's so amazing to be a part of them! Every time something else crazy happens, we turn to each other and say "Welcome to Africa," because here, our crazy is their normal and it is fantastic. Whether its using the bathrooms here called squatty potties with a lizard keeping you company in the corner, cooking dinner in the hallway because...

Comfort What? Comfort Zones

February 9, 2013
Adventures
Life on the Field

Spend about 20 minutes around our team and chances are you'll hear the phrase "comfort zone" a time or two. I knew that picking up and moving thousands of miles away to rural Uganda with a bunch of strangers would undoubtedly involve stepping out of mine, but it seems that every day there is a new lesson to be learned about abandoning familiarity and comfort to follow God into the hard places. For starters, I never expected that my ministry here would involve playing volleyball with a bunch of high school boys. If I had known that as I was signing up for this trip, I...

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