12. Beans and rice. 11. Packing 35 people – plus luggage and equipment – in a 6-wheeler “refugee” truck for a 6 hour (African time) trek north 10. Watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S episodes on our refugree truck ride 9. Don’t sell your heart for pork! 8. Set time to leave: 9am…actual time of departure: 12pm 7. African obstacle course: behemoth ants, cows, goats, and mudslides…nuff said! 6. Nature peein off the middle of the highway 5. Squatty potties are a way of life! 4. Teeth-brushin with water bottles 3. Freezing cold, 5-drops-at-a-time showers with...

   After a long day of ministering to High Schools we were debriefing as a team and everyone was feeling a little overwhelmed and little discouraged. Then in walks three little girls dressed in their school uniforms and one sits down right beside me. I didn’t think much of it at the time but then she but her hand on my knee and smiled up at me while we were praying. Any worries or struggles of the trip were erased and I knew God sent Adokoochmocc to me to show his love and brighten my spirits. She didn’t speak much English but we communicated just the same. We...

So when we arrived in Kampala Uganda we found out that we were going to Gulu to do school ministry. At one of the secondary schools (high school), a group of kids too young to even be in elementary school came in from their village to see what was going on. This cute little girl walked straight up to me and sat  down beside me. She couldnt have been more than two years old and was wearing torn muddy clothes. After a few minutes she got up and sat down in my lap. My heart just broke!  I sat there just holding and loving on this little girl, wondering what she was thinking as...

We made an unexpected trip to Gulu last week…unexpected for me at least = ) But through this trip, i learned the amazing power of faith! Through 1 girl’s amazing story of strength and love, I learned what it truly means to have FAITH! So this girl was 19 and in a wheelchair, but was just so full of life. The happiness just seemed to radiate through her eyes. We sat and talked for awhile about things like the weather and school, then she shared with me her story. She said she was taken by the LRA and had stayed with them for 2 weeks when the fighting broke out. She was shot in...

Imagine walking into a war stricken school, where every move you make is being watched through little eyes that have lost their innocence and are desperately searching for hope, when you look around at the absolutely beautiful faces of these hurt children, you see children soldiers and orphans and kids who are abused on a regular basis, they show you everything they have from their dorm rooms to their gardens and cattle, they want to share with you what little they have and they look at you as if you are their savior. To them muzungu (white person) means rich in spirit, rich in finances,...

Uganda is more. More than everything I expected. More beautiful. More heartbreaking. More glorious, and more challenging. I came here to do one thing: love on people. Build relationships with the forgotten, the lonely, the poor, and the broken. And I’ve been blessed to be able to do that every single day since we got here.   The days are all starting to run together, but there’s one afternoon we had here that I won’t forget. We’ve been doing school outreach every day, and at a primary school in Gulu we had a bunch of free time and a  bunch of restless...