Author: Adventures

Forgotten hope

If I were to describe Busia in one word, it would be busy. Walk down the road and you'll see women balancing baskets of fruit on their heads, steel being grinded, goats waiting to cross the street, men gamblilng. Semis drive on the sidewalks. Everywhere you look there's another business. Shop is set up under trees where people wait in line to have their hair done or buy mangoes for lunch. There's fires in the ditches burning the trash, and the sweet smell of meat roasting takes hold of the hot air. There's business men running late for work, Masai tribesmen, devout...

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The Everlasting Father

Millions of orphans in Africa. Millions. That number is striking and elicits compassion. However, so many times it can be so overwhelming that it’s easy for people to remain apathetic, and therefore remain inactive. Then the logic becomes: since we do not have the capability to help all of them, then why bother with any of them? But when you meet one, just one, I can guarantee your heart for orphans will change forever.   Last week we were doing house to house evangelism.  Around the corner, only a couple hundred yards away from our house, we came across a little...

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A Proud Big Sister

We have officially been in Busia, Kenya for 17 days….that's it…really?! God has been on the move in unexpected ways. When I first met our team, they were all so quiet. I thought to myself it make take quite some time for them to get used to each other and for ministry to get rolling. I was completely wrong. They have jumped in with both feet, not truly knowing what they have gotten themselves into, but have jumped regardless. I love this team because they don't give up, and they have been that way since training camp. They see all of the craziness and messiness of this...

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What do you have on your iPod?

Walking around a college campus, “What do you have on your iPod?” might not be the most tactful way to get to know someone, but it is something that (nearly) everyone has in common.  Everyone has an iPod that they listen to on their way to class or in their room.  It’s not something that is usually shared, so it’s personalized exactly to your music and game specifications.  Often, looking through someone’s iPod artist list can be more revealing than viewing their facebook page. All of the embarrassing guilty pleasure music you have is...

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Meet Miriam

What comes to mind when you think of Africa? Perhaps a few things are tons of wildlife, mud huts everywhere, orphans on every street corner or the AIDS epidemic out of control. What else comes to your mind? Are there any specific individuals? It is difficult to be deeply moved when we think of things in mass numbers. Our minds just cannot fathom 210 MILLION orphans in the world. But when we look at the one in front of us something happens. I’d like you to meet a little girl who has touched my heart. Her name is Miriam. We were out on our morning house to house evangelism this past...

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As life slips away…

"The key to humility is to get your eyes off yourself and onto the one from whom and for whom and through whom all things are.“ ~ Unknown :Updates: *I spoke about humility at church for the afternoon service this past week. This was a very stretching experience for me. * We have been going to the local hospital to visit and pray over the sick. My heart aches with compassion when we are there and if it were up to me I would spend all day every day there. The first day we went we spent the whole time in the children’s ward. We spoke to parents, prayed over children, and...

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