I’ve been asking God to teach me to love beyond my capacity. I thought it would come through a subtle change in heart. I thought it would be easy. I never thought it would hurt. I never thought it would expose my heart, leaving me in utter vulnerability and brokenness.   During the first couple weeks of the trip, I remember walking through a trail, asking some of my teammates about their lives and what their passions were. One said she was studying special education. I told her how I thought it was so respectable and honorable, but it was a ministry I didn’t think I could...

Last week we had the incredible opportunity to stay in the village with a family. Naturally I jumped at the opportunity to stay with Kadenge's family because he is pretty much my Ugandan son. I don't think I actually understood how crazy the week was going to be. Me, Jessie, 5 kids and our mom stayed in a house approximately the size of a small hotel bathroom and all slept together on 2 mattresses on the floor.  On the second night Jessie got a little sick so she went back to the Jesus house for the night which left me alone for the night. I was initially slightly completely...

     Cool story. So, at the island last week on the thursday, we travelled to another village. As we were doing door-to-door evangelism, where a muslim lady, among others, was led to Christ, a boy named Moses followed us around. The more we talked to him, the more we realized how good his english is, like his english was almost as good, if not, better than some of the translators with us. And this boy is only ELEVEN years old and in grade 5. And during our day there we saw just how hungry he was to learn more about God other than just on Sunday morning.  So when we...

“When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak because she thought, ‘If I just touch his clothes I will be healed.’ Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her boy that she was freed from her suffering.” Mark 5:27-29     I walked nonchalantly past shack after shack on the little island we visited in the middle of Lake Victoria. Children ran down the beach line to greet us in the little boat we road two hours in to get there. I was overjoyed to see the people who accepted Christ over the four days we...

I am very competitive. I always want to be the best and I always want to be involved in everything. I want to experience everything. When I don't, part of me feels like I have failed. I have felt for a long while that I must be the elite within some nonexistent spiritual stratification. If I do not perform to a level near Jesus, then I am a failure. But that is not how God views me. He asks, "Do you know the way you move me?" Say what Abba?! "You move me just because of who you are. You are my beloved without any actions. You warm my heart just with your life. The only...

Towards the beginning of this trip, I met a 16 year old girl named Evaline. She and two of her sisters own a tiny hair salon in Lira. As I spent some time with Eva, I came to know here story. At age seven she lost her mother, and at age twelve, she became an orphan when her father died. Until recently, she lived in an orphanage, and now she lives with some of her sisters. What is so touching and encouraging to me is not the fact that she is an orphan who is persevering to support herself and her sisters, but that she is so hungry for the Word of God. Eva told us that she had been praying...