Our contact has a very large church and many different ministries to choose from. So we are fortunate, that we get to work in the departments, that match the calling of our hearts. Here is a run-down of what our team has been doing so far this month: In the A.M.- Some of our team goes to work at the Compassion International office. The rest of our team does personal evangelism time. Most of us stay at the hotel (where we are fortunate to stay this month) and help the staff. There is MUCH cooking, dishes, laundry, and cleaning of rooms that needs to be done. It is all done by hand and it is...

Ever since we crossed the border, Uganda has been different.  It's homey.  It's where we were supposed to be all along.  With more than half of the trip down and only 58 days to go, I can already recognize that this time has been priceless.  Jesus has been revealing Himself in ways that He never has before.  He's been romancing and pursuing me like crazy these past two months.  And that is why I think of this time as my honeymoon with Jesus.  One hundred and twenty-one days of falling more and more in love with Jesus as He continues to show me...

Spending a week (or five days, whatever) in Nairobi for debrief was awesome.  It was great to meet up again with Team Kenya.  We hadn’t seen them since training camp, and honestly I’d forgotten some of their names.  But, it was great to see the way God had been moving in their team.  We listened to their stories, and they were eager to hear ours, especially because they are going to Busia, where we’d been for the past six weeks.  Our team dynamics are a lot different—team Kenya is definitely a lot more outgoing, whereas our team is a lot more...

To all friends, family, and supporters, your participants are doing very well and know that you have every reason to be proud of the men and women they are becoming. We left Kenya very encouraged! We wanted to share some photos from our time in Nairobi so you can see how your participants have changed. For the parents of Zach Hanna and Micah Duke, your sons are having a beard competition, though it might be time to shave.

I spend a lot of time comparing Kenya with Indiana.  It’s easy to find differences here: pop comes in bottles, things run on “Africa time,” where two hours late is on time, power and internet connections only work some of the time, bananas cost five shillings (about 7 cents), church services last four hours, my main form of transportation other than walking involves sitting sideways on a boda boda (bicycle), and as I walk down the street, small children yell, “MZUNGUHOWAREYOUIAMFINE!” It’s a little different than Indiana.  Recently, I saw...

Kenya has been a place of spiritual awakening for me. There are days where I feel like everyone is sleeping, and I'm here to awaken them. I'm in Kenya to set the captives free.  Yesterday we were doing door to door ministry in a little town called Matayos. On our last stop of the day, we came to a hut with an interesting mix of people. A Muslim woman, a Catholic woman, and a man who had not received salvation but yearned for it. I started with the man on the right of the room, and began to work my way over. He was hungry for the power, and immediately received salvation. The...