I have to be honest, leadership is never something I wanted for myself. And Uganda isn't somewhere I ever pictured myself coming back to. But I am SO thankful that the Lord knows better, and that his plans are way better than my own. I went on the World Race in July 2011. Toward the end of my race,God kept putting this whole leading a Passport trip thing on my mind. But I was terrified. So I kept ignoring it and dreaming of what my life in America would look like. I had all these plans for my life, and they were my plans. I wasn't considering God's, but he had much...

‘The exact number of street children is impossible to quantify, but the figure almost certainly runs into tens of millions across the world.’ This is the result when I googled ‘number of street children worldwide’  Tony; A name that has changed my life the past three weeks. I met Tony a few weeks ago at Atin Afrika, a street kid’s ministry that we have invested in since returning from Nairobi. His story is like a lot of other street kids. He was living with his dad and step-mom in the village and ran into some problems with them. They abused him,...

I came here knowing I was going to live in Lira, Uganda I didn't come here knowing that I was going to love Lira, Uganda The past 2 months here have been rough at times, but getting to the peak is never an easy trail. And as a team, we have never climbed higher than we did in the past two weeks. We've poured our hearts and souls into this ministry that the irreplaceable people here have made available to us. But in reality, they were the ones filling us up in order to do so.  Lira isn't a town where I once lived, and it never will be. It is a town that I loved, and a town...

           I came to Africa expecting to make a huge impact, expecting to be the next “white missionary girl” to change the world. Coming to Uganda, I’ve realized that if anyone has been changed, and if anyone has been impacted, it has most definitely been me. The Christians here have taught me so much, and have spurred me further in my walk with Christ.               If I had to describe the Ugandan church in one word it would be joyful. It is so evident in every...

God speaks to me through my ipod.   Sometimes you have those days. Days that you spend in a rut, replaying everything in your life that you haven’t quite been able to get past. I had one of those days yesterday, 75% spent in tears and 25% percent of it trying to sleep through them. The tears of a heart that had been chewed up and spit out by countless undeserving souls. A heart that can’t forgive itself. A heart that didn’t know where to begin to fill the deep holes that riddled it.   But there is a place that only love can go.   That was the lyric that rang...

This is part two of a blog I posted back in May. Check it out here to get all caught up!  'So you’re going by Sara now?’ That was the most asked question when I returned home in May from being in Africa the past 5 months. The Lord took me on an unforgettable journey those few months. I had highs and lows, good days and bad days, sick days and healthy days, days where we saw angels and days where we just cried out for God to show up in any way possible. It was an emotional rollercoaster from the beginning and coming home was no different. Arriving home I knew...