Coming into training camp I had an idea in my head of what I thought it was going to be like. It’s the same in life..we always have expectations for things even if we don’t mean to. Sometimes we even tend to get angry when our expectations aren’t met. When we focus on our unmet expectations we miss the other opportunities the Lord has for us. As Americans we tend to become comfortable with our rights…we always feel like we have a right to everything. Example: personal space. Pretty much everyone would agree that sometimes we need our bubble of space. Am I right? But...

We just spoke with the team leaders and they've all arrived safely in Kenya and will be taking a very long bus ride to their ministry site in Uganda. The team will be settling in these next couple days and getting some orientation from their host.  Expect to see some blogs rolling out in the next few days as they find internet. Thanks for all the prayers for this team! The Passport field support team

  You would think by now I would be used to being away from home, meeting new people and experiencing life in new ways. Coming into this trip the last two days at home were incredibly difficult for me. I was an emotional wreck, confused and uncertain. Yet deep in my gut I knew that what I was doing was exactly what I was supposed to be doing. That coming here was exactly where I was supposed to go.   Once I arrived I felt an incredible amount of peace. I felt strange how calm I was once I arrived. I feel completely refreshed in my relationship with God. Something is different and...

How can I reconcile knowing God's beautiful purpose in a two month trip and a broken heart that longs to remain? I believe it was time for me to come back home but it is strange to be back.  In Uganda, you are daily surrounded by people who know true lack and want, yet their joy is unquenchable because they know God. Their daily lives are surrounded by prayer and praise of Jesus Christ for anything and everything in their lives, big or small, obstacle or triumph, in live or death. There is no time for fruitless distraction in the things that we fill our lives with in America for...

Leaving beautiful Uganda definately is a bittersweet experience. As I sit here in Kampala, waiting all day to go to the airport, I can't help but think back over these short two months I have spent here. This morning I got the best wakeup call from precious Susan and Polly, who are two of the Alpha staff that are like my family now! Hearing their voices really made me miss them and realize how much I really love them.   There are so many things I will miss about this place: 1. of course my Susan and Shelby, Polly, Cissy – their joy, love, smiles, hugs, laughs 2....

As this trip of a lifetime draws to a close, I don't have much to say simply because my thoughts are racing. I've also experienced too much these past 2 weeks to blog about all of it. I'll just tell you how I'm feeling these days. Honestly, a couple days ago I was really upset because my dream from almost 3 years ago is almost over. I felt like, "Really? This is it? It's almost over." And my brother Ben said, "you know the thing about dreams is that you dream them, you wake up and they're gone….But then you go to sleep and you dream a new...