After a month and a half in Africa, our team has discovered just how weird we are. (Africa can do some crazy things to a person!) We are so weird (well, I’m not all that weird) that we have decided on making a ranking system for our weirdness. The following are the current rankings and some explanations:   Craig- You never EVER know what he’s going to say next. Jessica- Her outbursts of weirdness are endless, unreal, actually! Kiersten- The sound effects that come from this young lady are quite odd! Zach- This young man is making shoes out of leaves, enough...

What is Jesus doing in you?   This question was in one of my letters from back home. I kinda put the question on the back burner because I honestly didn’t want to think about it, but once I started thinking about it…this is what I came up with   *He showing me that He is God and I haven’t been doing a good job living by this. There were so many areas I didn’t trust Him in, or I was just scared to give Him 100%, but he’s showing me in order to fully fulfill the plan he has for my life, I need to trust him *Freedom only comes once I let Him in and let...

Oh Africa, Bittersweet sites of children, Laughing and at play, But their daddies left long ago, While they must stay, Their mothers are hopeless, The food ran out and the money isn’t there, Still they play to forget, to distract, Hey daddy, don’t you care? Oh Africa. Oh Africa, The old man sits on the corner, His skeleton fingers stretched out, Anything, anything at all? A sip of clean water for this man of draught, He’s held together by his skin alone, And that skin is no more than a cracking leaf, He’s ready to die and escape this pity, Can...

By now, if you’ve been reading our blogs, you’ve heard about our dear friend Stella, A graceful and chipper woman that lives a short walk down the dirt road from us. We have been visiting her frequently over the past month and a half, but the last visit really struck a chord with me. In the days before our visit I hadn’t been feeling well and I really didn’t have a joyful attitude about much of anything. Now, there is something you should know about Stella. She has an absolutely adorable laugh and the most joyful attitude I’ve ever seen- both of which are...

Ok, so I know at least one other person has already written about our prison ministry here but it means a lot to me, so one more prison blog comin’ up!   I have had a passion for the least of these for a long time, you know, widows, orphans, the poor, and the prisoners… the prisoners? They usually aren’t the first category of the least of these that peoples’ hearts go out to. They are guilty of crime and deserve punishment. They have hurt people and lived selfishly. On the other hand, who of us can say he/she hasn’t done the same? We all deserve...

This passage was meant for our team. The first night of training camp we went all around Atlanta and talked to people. One guy we met was names Gregory Allen Q. We talked with him for a while, told him why we were out wandering Atlanta, and how we were going to Uganda and towards the end, he shared two passages with us, Psalm 91 and Psalm 121. We prayed with him, and went our separate ways. A few days later during one of our team meetings at training camp, Robby, our leader read Psalm 91 to us. Then after our last worship night session, the worship leader from the weekend asked to talk to...