As part of our ministry here in Busia, we’ve been making hospital visits. Some of my team members love this, but for me it’s probably the most challenging thing I’ve done on this trip. The hospital is noisy, smelly, and crowded. In the wards we’ve been visiting, beds are lined up in big rooms with two see-through dividers, and about twelve beds in every divided section. Some of the patients are surrounded by family and friends, while others have no one near them other than the next patient eight feet away. My father recently spent several weeks in the hospital, and...

This past week we held open-air crusades in the town of Ojamii. Most of the attendees were children, about 150. My favorite was a little girl who was about 3 years old. The African worship music would start playing and she would dance, with a very serious face. The first day she didn't crack a smile but she did hold my hand, so we could dance kind of together. The second day, she was holding a dirty teddy bear, and wearing a dirty little dress. I was sitting down in a chair and I called her over. She came with her dirty little bear and sat on my lap. She actually smiled when I pretended...

If I were to describe Busia in one word, it would be busy. Walk down the road and you'll see women balancing baskets of fruit on their heads, steel being grinded, goats waiting to cross the street, men gamblilng. Semis drive on the sidewalks. Everywhere you look there's another business. Shop is set up under trees where people wait in line to have their hair done or buy mangoes for lunch. There's fires in the ditches burning the trash, and the sweet smell of meat roasting takes hold of the hot air. There's business men running late for work, Masai tribesmen, devout...

Millions of orphans in Africa. Millions. That number is striking and elicits compassion. However, so many times it can be so overwhelming that it’s easy for people to remain apathetic, and therefore remain inactive. Then the logic becomes: since we do not have the capability to help all of them, then why bother with any of them? But when you meet one, just one, I can guarantee your heart for orphans will change forever.   Last week we were doing house to house evangelism.  Around the corner, only a couple hundred yards away from our house, we came across a little...

We have officially been in Busia, Kenya for 17 days….that's it…really?! God has been on the move in unexpected ways. When I first met our team, they were all so quiet. I thought to myself it make take quite some time for them to get used to each other and for ministry to get rolling. I was completely wrong. They have jumped in with both feet, not truly knowing what they have gotten themselves into, but have jumped regardless. I love this team because they don't give up, and they have been that way since training camp. They see all of the craziness and messiness of this...

"The key to humility is to get your eyes off yourself and onto the one from whom and for whom and through whom all things are.“ ~ Unknown :Updates: *I spoke about humility at church for the afternoon service this past week. This was a very stretching experience for me. * We have been going to the local hospital to visit and pray over the sick. My heart aches with compassion when we are there and if it were up to me I would spend all day every day there. The first day we went we spent the whole time in the children’s ward. We spoke to parents, prayed over children, and...