Author: Adventures

When traveling to a foreign country, there is no doubt you are gong to be taken our of your comfort zone, experience some sort of culture shock, and have to learn how to adjust to a maybe more primitive lifestyle than the one you are used to or a completely different way of living. In order to stay sane and to keep some feeling of normalcy, sometimes you may just have to invite a little of your own familiar culture into the one you are currently residing (keeping in mind of course that you may have to compromise with a few things if your new culture doesn’t exactly have the exact same...

Being in a new place for quite a while makes picking up habits pretty easy, so mom and dad, this is your warning!    – If I wake up in the morning, go outside and start bathing with a huge basin of water… don't worry, as soon as I see our neighbors, I will quickly run back inside! -If I sit at the table and just expect food to appear… I'm sorry, I just haven't had to cook in 2 months! – If you go outside and see my laundry hanging all over the place… don't worry, my "nickers" won't be out there because that is...

God is moving here and it is absolutely rocking my world! There is nothing like our God! This week we were a part of a crusade and joined with a team from Portland, Oregon. We saw hundreds of people come to know Jesus and now we all as a team feel called to go back to the secondary schools and help them continue this new relationship with Jesus as we disciple them and teach them to disciple others! We want people here to know that it doesn't end with the decision of accepting Christ … that is just the beginning! Our God is a God who instills power in us and calls us friend...

As we were doing door to door ministry in the flats this week we had many awesome encounters that were spiritually uplifting. One particular story that has stuck out in my mind happened Wednesday afternoon. We walked up to a door that was brightly decorated and had a sticker of an Indian God on the front of it. Many thoughts were going through my mind, the biggest one being "We are going to get this door slammed in our faces if we knock on it". We decided to go ahead with it anyway and low and behold they do not slam the door, but instead invited us inside.    The...

SORRY!!!!  I have been absolutely terrible about this whole blogging thing.. whoops 🙂   There’s just no good way to sum up the last 4? weeks.  (Is that how long we’ve been here?  We’ve completely lost track)  It’s been an incredible roller coaster of God pulling us out of our comfort zones, us adjusting and getting comfortable there, and Him pulling us out again.  It’s been awesome!  This last week we got the opportunity to work with a team from Portland who was here doing a crusade.  The way things worked I only got...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about the Ugandan people since I’ve been here, it’s that they are strong, in every way it’s possible to be strong. It’s not at all uncommon to see 5-year-old lugging around their one-year-old siblings on their backs or hips like they’re feather-light. Women carry enormous baskets of bananas and pineapples on their heads, hands-free, without breaking a sweat. We drink the water or eat the lettuce and we’re in bed for three days; they get malaria on a regular basis, like it’s the common cold, and...