So…sometimes when you are in Africa, and some friends of yours get married, you get the privilege of being the wedding singers…and the wedding dancers…and the servers at the reception, lol. Last Saturday, Sam and Dorine, the cutest African couple ever, got married. Somehow, and I don’t really know how, but somehow, our team got recruited to present a few songs during the ceremony. We chose to do a medley of some rather cheesy, but more importantly, really amusing, love songs. We began our medley with “I Say a Little Prayer for you” from the major...

Wow! I cannot believe it! We are down to the last wire of our trip. Two weeks left in Lira, ½ a week in Jinja, then 3 days of traveling and Georgia and I will be home. The last four months have literally flown by. It is such a bittersweet feeling for me. Lira has truly become home for me, but I am also super excited to see all my family and friends whom I miss so, so much.   Anyways, as you saw the title of this blog is when the going gets tough, God’s grace gets going. I want to explain, I know God’s grace is always working and never ending. What I am specifically...

4….3…..2…..1…. Finish!   Hey everyone! So this week I want to blog about 4 things because they are all standing out in my mind.   4. I will start with Easter weekend here in Lira. Friday through Sunday this week past week was a crazy busy time. It reminded me much of my church at home. We had a Good Friday service, time to chill on Saturday, then Sunday service. My team and I worked on 4 songs that we sang for the Good Friday service, such an awesome time of worship! And one of the girls painted a picture while we sang. It was a great time of worship and...

     When I walked into the therapeutic feeding center at the hospital, I didn't really expect to be affected like I was. Ally and I were quickly greeted by a little boy named Moses. He waddled towards us and he immediately laid his head on Ally's lap. He is the most cuddly little boy ever but also quite a handful. He hates when we put him down and is very stubborn, but still so precious. As we walked into the room where all the children were, my eyes quickly focused on the girl in the second bed. I went over to meet her and she said her name was Esther. My...

  Three months ago I walked up to a group of 12 people at the Atlanta, Georgia airport, which is when it hit me… I was about to leave my family, friends, church, job, school, state, city, home, and comfort zone. And I was entering a community with 13 people whose names I barely knew, expected to rely on and trust them with my daily safety, needs, comforts, weaknesses and strengths. I was entering a continent I had never seen, meeting people I knew nothing about, in a culture that I knew very little about. I was going to be involved with a church I knew nothing about, not their...

Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya!  We’re here until the 28th for a few days of team debrief where we spend time with other Passport teams in East Africa and have time to rest and reflect.  On Friday afternoon we packed up some of our belongings and walked to the bus stop in Lira, Uganda to hop on board the bus for what would become a 20 hour adventure.  We boarded the bus to discover that there weren’t quite enough seats for our group of 13 so a few of us spent time lying down in the aisle.  After around 6 hours we made it to the border where we spent two...