Author: Adventures

This past week we were able to travel to the area of Kabale in southwest Uganda. Kabale is one of the most beautiful and fertile areas in Uganda with endless hillsides quilted with terraced farm plots. The people grow everything from bananas and irish potatoes to sorgum and maize. We were welcomed into Juna Amangara Ministries by Mr Herbert and his family who operate the orphanage, schools and other programs out of Kishanje near Kabale. We worked in school ministry seeking to spread the love of Jesus to the students and teachers. This last week our ministry looked very similar to what we...

    It is Monday, which means that it is our team's day of rest from ministry where we do much-needed laundry, adventures in the town, team building, dwelling in the Lord's presence, and updating you all back home.       I feel as though I have already experienced and learned so much that it is difficult to know where to start in sharing anything close to an adequate testimony of these last few days. The land and people here are absolutely beautiful, and yet at the same time my heart breaks for the poverty...

After my 13th day in Africa, my 11th in Lira, I can certainly say that Africa is nothing what I expected. So far, it has been a little difficult to organize our ministry and I don’t try to pretend that we have it all together. We have been working with Victory Church and doing a lot of cool stuff, partnering in various ministries with them; many of us have gone to worked in primary schools, secondary schools, a school for the deaf, agriculture, Compassion international, an AIDs/HIV support group in the church, and even a day program they have for children at the church on Saturdays....

This week flew by in one aspect, but in another way it feels like forever. Some things that happened this week:   1. I ate goat, and it wasn’t that bad. 2. Braedon and Audrey are both now with the Kampala team, so the Lira team is alive and kickin’ with Brent as our leader. 3. 90’s worship songs were the hit this weekend— Amy Grant anyone? 4. I got my hair braided by some of the staff at Alpha, where we are staying. 5. As a team we handwashed almost everyone’s laundry–if you wanna see family, check out the Americans washing and wringing out...

Together With One Accord            Lira is almost impossible to describe. Emily, Travis and I are getting involved at a local Deaf school here and I am currently falling in love with it and the kids there. I can’t wait to learn more of the signs and be able to better communicate with them. It is such a passion given directly from the Lord! During introductions one day one boy started signing super fast to us and we were of course clueless. As we stood there wondering what in the world he was saying the translator started to smile. I knew...

So this story may not exactly have the outcome that most of you expect, but far from being a dissapointment, I think it’s just a prime example of God’s ways not being ours. It doesn’t have the cookie cutter ending hollywood tells us makes a good sotry, but I’m pretty sure in God’s book it’s just as important as any other great story. It certainly ranks up there in my book as an amazing testament to God’s.. well.. awesomness!   So there’s this blind girl who sits in front of the local bank, begging alms. Not an altogether uncommon sight...